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RIVEN and DJINN & TONIC Head to the Library

Posted on April 14, 2026 by B.C. Johnson

My YA post-apocalypse novel RIVEN and my urban fantasy/noir DJINN & TONIC have been accepted into BiblioBoard, in the Indie California author program.

What that actually means is you can borrow the ebooks for RIVEN and DJINN & TONIC free of charge by clicking on those links. Welcome to the future. Use this knowledge only for good, for it carries with it a terrible burden (it doesn’t). It does, however, support libraries, which is (as the kids say) dope.

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2025 in Books (Part 2): Recommendations and Reviews

Posted on December 29, 2025 by B.C. Johnson

It’s December, so time to show off some of the novels I’ve read this year! For the second time.

My plan this year was simple: read 24 books (double what I read last year), and only pull books I already own but haven’t read yet. One, to actually get to some of the books I’ve been gifted over the past couple decades, and two, because money.

You can read how the first six months went here.

Overall, for the back half of the year, I didn’t remotely reach my goal. Neither in number nor in sticking to only books I already owned. But as they say, it is in how we strive that our soul is revealed or something don’t listen to me I failed.

Alright, here we go:

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