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Jen Donohue

@authorizedmusings

Doberman owner, SFFH writer, 💀, SFWA member, library clerk. Exit Ghost Werewolf trilogy: Burn Up In Victory:

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Jen Donohue@authorizedmusings· 29d

meme of Timothee Chalamet excitedly leaping to his feet with Zendaya sitting behind him with a dissociative look on her face, with NOVELLAS really big over the whole image.

Jen Donohue@authorizedmusings· 29d

I know indie author playlists are something to snicker at but like, come on, how can I not? I listened to these songs as I wrote Amusement Park Arcana, and the characters listen to at least one in the book! books2read.com/AmusementPar... open.spotify.com/playlist/7ny...

Amusement Park Arcana playlist: 21 songs listed on a cotton candy pink background: Fade Into You, Lunatic Fringe, Smells Like Teen Spirit, Would?, Cherub Rock, Where Did You Sleep Last Night? ,What's Up?, Seether, Celebrity Skin, Glycerine, Yellow Ledbetter, One, Loser, Pepper, Little Things, ZZero, Possum Kingdom, Low, Interstate Love Song, Wandering Star, Violet

The Amusement Park Arcana book cover, and then the words Coming July 15, 2026 with a graphic of a carousel and a books2read link: https://books2read.com/AmusementParkArcana

Jen Donohue@authorizedmusings· Jul 13

this wasn't a crow gift, as I found it in the wild (on our walk) but it almost certainly comes from one of "my" crows

a short, wide, black crow feather on concrete sidewalk, plastered flat from having been poured on, the edges of it kind of separated and, well, feathered out.

Jen Donohue@authorizedmusings· Jul 13

"what if it was about me"

a black and rust doberman wearing a brass-studded, green leather collar, looking up at the camera soulfully with her front paws on the striped beach towel that is on my living room floor, not quite touching the book and tarot cards.

a view of a striped beach towel with a paperback of Amusement Park Arcana on it, surrounded by tarot cards, with a black and rust Doberman now standing fully on the towel, three of her four feet and part of her side visible in the shot.

Jen Donohue@authorizedmusings· Jul 13

🎡🎠🎢Amusement Park Arcana comes out on WEDNESDAY (July 15!) 🎡🎠🎢 books2read.com/AmusementPar...

a striped beach towel (pink, black, yellow, orange) with a paperback of Amusement Park Arcana on it, with some tarot cards scattered on/around it (The Page of Swords, the Fool, the Tower, Strength, the Three of Cups, and the Eight of Swords)

Jen Donohue@authorizedmusings· Jul 12

Leonardo DiCaprio in Baz Luhrman's The Great Gatsby, holding up a coupe glass of champagne in a toast with fireworks going off behind him. The words "Thank you for preordering Amusement Park Arcana surround his face.

Jen Donohue@authorizedmusings· Jul 12

“We could eat at the museum restaurant.” I do not care to
tramp through the city to whatever food truck these two would
prefer to frequent.
“Have you seen those prices?” Bits asks. “I could pay rent
for a month with what they’re charging for salmon.”
“Salmon has become rather dear.”
“Not too dear, they farm‘emin all those rice fields they got
in California now. It’s just artificial inflation.”

Jen Donohue@authorizedmusings· Jul 11

HERE'S MY BACKLIST novels AND novellas! standalones AND series! novels! books2read.com/ExitGhost authorizedmusings.blogspot.com/p/learn-to-h... books2read.com/burnupinvict... novellas! authorizedmusings.blogspot.com/p/run-with-h... books2read.com/DrownedHeir books2read.com/BetweentheBl...

Books by Jennifer R. Donohue
Novels (with pictures of book covers): Exit Ghost, Learn to Howl, Baying the Moon, The Company of Wolves. Burn Up in Victory

Novellas (with pictures of book covers): The Drowned Heir, Between the Blood and the Sun, all 8 Run With the Hunted covers together in a grid.

Jen Donohue@authorizedmusings· Jul 11

FOUR DAYS until Amusement Park Arcana is out! 🎡🎠🎢 Action Park meets the Backrooms in 1994 🎡🎠🎢 books2read.com/AmusementPar... 🎡🎠🎢

a cotton candy pink background, with a kodak-style graphic frame, a heart in the lower left corner, that says "it's been months since she went missing, so my parents expect me to be sad but over it by now."

In the lower right is the book cover for Amusement Park Arcana (a very washed out/faded picture of a lit-up ferris wheel in a hazy summer sunset, with "Amusement Park Arcana" over it in black writing. Jennifer R. Donohue is at the bottom.)

next to the book covers says "Coming July 15, 2026" and underneath everything is https://books2read.com/AmusementParkArcana .

Jen Donohue@authorizedmusings· Jul 10

and this power line is a fuckin' mess

power line with a street light, and the wires are just a terrible cat-o-nine-tails looking tangle off a maybe-wooden pole.

Jen Donohue@authorizedmusings· Jul 10

If YOU are a reviewer, bookstagrammer, booktocker, book blogger, book blinger, book eater, book [redacted], and YOU want to have a bad time with Amusement Park Arcana, let me know! I can get a copy to you! books2read.com/AmusementPar...

4 panels screenshot from a concert video of Trent Reznor:

"How are you tonight? Having a good time? Ready to party? Have Fun?"

"Well that was the last guys, Wrong fucking book."

"We're here for a bad time."

(synthesizer playing)

on a cotton candy pink background with the Amusement Park Arcana cover and the words "coming July 15, 2026" https://books2read.com/AmusementParkArcana

book cover:a very washed out/faded picture of a lit-up ferris wheel in a hazy summer sunset, with "Amusement Park Arcana" over it in black writing.

Jennifer R. Donohue is at the bottom.

Jen Donohue@authorizedmusings· Jul 10

Happy fridayyyyyyyyyy to your story submissions and mine!

a screenshot of fourPending Responses on The Submission Grinder. The oldest is in orange at 166 days, the following two are in black at 2 days each, and the final one is in black at 2 days.

Jen Donohue@authorizedmusings· Jul 10

FIVE DAYS until Amusement Park Arcana is out! 🎡🎢🎪🎠 Have you preordered? 🎡🎢🎪🎠 are you READY? Action Park meets the Backrooms in 1994, when Riley's friend goes missing at her shitty amusement job and the police are failing to pursue the case. 🎡🎢🎪🎠 books2read.com/AmusementPar...

salmon/cotton candy pink background with a whole lot of exploding fireworks, and then a book cover centered on it

book cover:a very washed out/faded picture of a lit-up ferris wheel in a hazy summer sunset, with "Amusement Park Arcana" over it in black writing.

Jennifer R. Donohue is at the bottom.

above the book cover reads "Opening Day July 15 2026" and along the bottom is https://books2read.com/AmusementParkArcana .

Jen Donohue@authorizedmusings· Jul 9

Preorder Amusement Park Arcana now, read it July 15, 2026! 🎉🎉🎉 (6 days) 🎉🎉🎉 get ready to get your tarot read in the Leeds House 🔮🔮🔮 Action Park x The Backrooms in 1994 🎢🎠🎡 books2read.com/AmusementPar...

salmon/cotton candy pink background with a book cover on it

book cover:a very washed out/faded picture of a lit-up ferris wheel in a hazy summer sunset, with "Amusement Park Arcana" over it in black writing.

Jennifer R. Donohue is at the bottom.

above it is a screenshot of a tweet from stefan heck that reads: [mysterious old lady flips tarot card revealing a dude who looks exactly like me flying a hot air balloons into power lines.] me: is that good

next to the book cover reads "Opening Day July 15 2026" and along the bottom is https://books2read.com/AmusementParkArcana .

Jen Donohue@authorizedmusings· Jul 8

Holy shit!! Today was not my best day (though all that green and my score so low??)

Screenshot from Anthropeum results, showing one green square, two yellow ones, and then seven more green squares, with a score of 65,623: top 61% of players today!

Jen Donohue@authorizedmusings· Jul 8

Amusement Park Arcana is out in SEVEN DAYS ebook and paperback! 🎡🎢🎠 Action Park x The Backrooms in 1994 🎡🎢🎠 books2read.com/AmusementPar...

picture of Samara in the American adaptation of The Ring stepping out of her well, with the words "7 days" above her head and "until Amusement Park Arcana is out" below her feet.

Jen Donohue@authorizedmusings· Jul 8

happy WITCH WEDNESDAY Shakespeare retellings are VERY IN right now, Exit Ghost is modern witchy girl Hamlet at the Jersey Shore! books2read.com/ExitGhost jenniferrdonohue.itch.io/exit-ghost

Hardcover copy of Exit Ghost on a driftwood log on sunny Asbury Park Beach.

Jen Donohue@authorizedmusings· Jul 8

it is WEREWOLF WEDNESDAY from my cover artist re: the complete trilogy "it's got: gay! it's got: trans! it's got: werewolves! it's got: anti-big-pharma-anti-military energy! it's got: pew pew pew bang bang!" books2read.com/LearntoHowl books2read.com/BayingtheMoon books2read.com/CompanyofWol...

Jen Donohue@authorizedmusings· Jul 8

happy Weird West Wednesday! In Between the Blood and the Sun, our middle-aged narrator is terminally ill, and knows that Silence is the town that will be her gravestone. (the horse is fine) books2read.com/BetweentheBl... jenniferrdonohue.itch.io/between-the-...

the cover for BETWEEN THE BLOOD AND THE SUN: a female figure, face shadowed, the sun rising or setting behind her. She's wearing a smallish cowboy hat (i.e. not ten gallon), and has two guns.

with cover blurb: "Hazel Smith rides west on a mare she won at a poker table.

When she reaches the town of Silence, she finds a tiny but welcoming community bookended by a church and a saloon. A good place to die. But the saloon has no mirror behind the bar, and nobody but the priest himself goes to the church. The only horse in the only stable is hers.

In her final hours, Hazel has to make a choice between living forever and making her death matter."

cover by Elyon from thebookcoverdesigner.com

Jen Donohue@authorizedmusings· Jul 8

IT IS WEDNESDAY MY DUDES RUN WITH THE HUNTED Run With the Hunted is my ongoing female-led cyberpunk heist NOVELLA series! we got: Bristol, the self-made socialite Bits, the hacker Dolly, the decommissioned super soldier itch.io/c/5506291/ru... authorizedmusings.blogspot.com/p/run-with-h...

image of Vine user JimmyHere, dressed in a spiderman onesie and wearing goggles, saying the phrase then proceeding to mimic the Budgett's frog's scream, with the phrase "It is Wednesday My Dudes Run With the Hunted".

Jen Donohue@authorizedmusings· Jul 6

this is what you've got SALE ACCESS to on Smashwords

Books by Jennifer R. Donohue
Novels (with pictures of book covers): Exit Ghost, Learn to Howl, Baying the Moon, The Company of Wolves. Burn Up in Victory

Novellas (with pictures of book covers): The Drowned Heir, Between the Blood and the Sun, all 8 Run With the Hunted covers together in a grid.

Jen Donohue@authorizedmusings· Jul 6

NINE (9) DAYS until Amusement Park Arcana comes out 🎡🎠 have you ever lost a friend, in whatever way? 🎡🎠 Amusement Park Arcana is for you 🎡🎠 books2read.com/AmusementPar...

salmon/cotton candy pink background with a book cover on it

book cover:a very washed out/faded picture of a lit-up ferris wheel in a hazy summer sunset, with "Amusement Park Arcana" over it in black writing.

Jennifer R. Donohue is at the bottom.

above it is the meme of squidward looking out a window from a darkened room at Spongebob and Patrick running happily past. Squidward is labeled "Riley, still utterly destroyed by the fact that her friend is missing." Spongebob and Patrick are labeled "Everybody else who has moved on and is enjoying their summer."

next to the book cover reads "Opening Day July 15 2026" and along the bottom is https://books2read.com/AmusementParkArcana .

Jen Donohue@authorizedmusings· Jul 5

Amusement Park Arcana comes out S O O N 🎉🎉🎉 preorder now in ebook and/or paperback! 🎢🎡🎈🎡🎢 books2read.com/AmusementPar... 🎢🎡🎈🎡🎢

salmon/cotton candy pink background with a book cover on it surrounded by book details/tropes
book cover:a very washed out/faded picture of a lit-up ferris wheel in a hazy summer sunset, with "Amusement Park Arcana" over it in black writing.

Jennifer R. Donohue is at the bottom.

the details, clockwise, starting at midnight:
1. It's tne nineties!
2. liminal spaces (these words bend in a little arc)
3. payphones
4. wear sunsceen (these words are turned vertical
5. cotton candy (in cotton candy blue)
6 Is this park safe? (underlined)
7. the beach (slanted)
8. Friendship bracelets
9. Mazzy star
10. unknowable horror!

Jen Donohue@authorizedmusings· Jul 4

Wolverine from the original 90s animated XMen series laying on his bed holding a framed picture, and in the second panel, the frame that he's touching so tenderly with his blue-gloved fingers says "novellas"

Jen Donohue@authorizedmusings· Jul 4

I FOUND IT 🎡🎢🎠 Preorder Amusement Park Arcana today! you might like it, if you like what Chuck likes 🎡🎢🎠 Action Park x Backrooms in 1994! 🎡🎢🎠 books2read.com/AmusementPar... 🎡🎢🎠

salmon/cotton candy pink background with a book cover and a cover blurb on it:

book cover:a very washed out/faded picture of a lit-up ferris wheel in a hazy summer sunset, with "Amusement Park Arcana" over it in black writing.

Jennifer R. Donohue is at the bottom.

cover blurb: Riley's best friend Tara went missing last October from the shitty amusement park where she worked. By spring, the police are no closer to having any answers, so Riley's taking it in her own hands.

She just knows Tara's still at the park somewhere, and an uncanny phone call on Riley's first day as a park employee only confirms that. The quest to bring Tara or her body home draws Riley further from her family and her boyfriend as she spends more time in the park's liminal spaces and opening day looms large.

coming July 15, 2026.

Jen Donohue@authorizedmusings· Jul 4

Post a random picture or else everything will go tits up in July

Jen Donohue@authorizedmusings· Jul 3

Hollywood isn't going to pay attention to Amusement Park Arcana (probably???) but you, yes YOU, can preorder it today! 🎡🎢🎠 Action Park x Backrooms in 1994! books2read.com/AmusementPar...

salmon/cotton candy pink background with a book cover and a cover blurb on it:

book cover:a very washed out/faded picture of a lit-up ferris wheel in a hazy summer sunset, with "Amusement Park Arcana" over it in black writing.

Jennifer R. Donohue is at the bottom.

cover blurb: Riley's best friend Tara went missing last October from the shitty amusement park where she worked. By spring, the police are no closer to having any answers, so Riley's taking it in her own hands.

She just knows Tara's still at the park somewhere, and an uncanny phone call on Riley's first day as a park employee only confirms that. The quest to bring Tara or her body home draws Riley further from her family and her boyfriend as she spends more time in the park's liminal spaces and opening day looms large.

coming July 15, 2026.

Jen Donohue@authorizedmusings· Jul 3

hAPPY FRIDAY TO YOUR STORY SUBMISSIONS AND MINE

a screenshot of three Pending Responses on The Submission Grinder. The oldest is in orange at 159 days, and the following two are in black at 2 days each.

Jen Donohue@authorizedmusings· Jul 3

thanks Gabino! my latest horror novella is Amusement Park Arcana! Coming July 15, 2026! Action Park x The Backrooms in 1994 🎡🎢🎪🎠 books2read.com/AmusementPar...

salmon/cotton candy pink background with a book cover on it

book cover:a very washed out/faded picture of a lit-up ferris wheel in a hazy summer sunset, with "Amusement Park Arcana" over it in black writing.

Jennifer R. Donohue is at the bottom.

above it is a picture of a pay phone with the handset hung crookedly on the receiver, with the words "That phone's been broken since last year." on it.

next to the book cover reads "Opening Day July 15 2026" and along the bottom is https://books2read.com/AmusementParkArcana .

Jen Donohue@authorizedmusings· Jul 2

I know I've been hitting it hard with Amusement Park Arcana marketing (two weeks!!) but don't forget that RUN WITH THE HUNTED 9 will be out on October 31! You have time to catch up! Heists! banter! hacking! itch.io/c/5506291/ru... authorizedmusings.blogspot.com/p/run-with-h...

A grid of all 8 Run With the Hunted covers on a black background
1. Run With the Hunted: a cascade of diamonds with blue code running through it and across a black background
2. Run With the Hunted 2: ctrl alt delete: a partially obscured moon glitching out
3. Run With the Hunted 3: standard operating procedure: a highway at night, severely saturated and pixelated
4. Run With the Hunted 4: VIP: a pair of champagne flutes, digitally shifted horizontally, with a spangled blue background behind
5. Run With the Hunted 5: Insert Coin to Play: a dark hallway with purple and blue shapes on either side, like video game cabinets or vending machines
6. Run With the Hunted 6: Burned Asset: a burning match, digitally sliced horizontally, blue flame licking upwards
7. Run With the Hunted 7: the Casino Job: chips on a poker table, everything blue and white and very pixelated
8. Run With the Hunted 8: Neural Howlround: almost entirely horizontal pixels in blues and some green and magenta and white, with what is a face or maybe computer equipment maybe discernible through the noise on the left.
In the 9th slot, it says "run With the Hunted 9 is coming 10/31/26".