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  <title>Whispers in the Glass - Music Video</title>
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  <description>Sharing the song that helped inspire me to write &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.jajakenfiction.net/Whispers-in-the-Glass/&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;Whispers in the Glass&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, my new Pathfinder m/m novella. I&apos;ve been having fun lately with Suno AI, creating songs to explore scenes and characters from my books. Song lyrics are a bit like writing poetry, I&apos;ve found. It&apos;s a completely new experience for me.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.jajakenfiction.net/Whispers-in-the-Glass/&quot;&gt;https://www.jajakenfiction.net/Whispers-in-the-Glass/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Whispers in the Glass&lt;/b&gt; - Music Video&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A haunting, cinematic descent into control and surrender, &apos;Whispers  in the Glass&apos; fuses smoky male vocals with a slow-burning tension.  Through velvet threats and whispered power, Ross unravels Shai&amp;rsquo;s will in  a slow pulse of manipulation, where silence echoes louder than force.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;iframe width=&quot;560&quot; height=&quot;315&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/yiWnqO4dnrQ?si=scNS8uvEeoAKRACo&quot; title=&quot;YouTube video player&quot; frameborder=&quot;0&quot; allow=&quot;accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share&quot; referrerpolicy=&quot;strict-origin-when-cross-origin&quot; allowfullscreen=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=jajaken&amp;ditemid=76080&quot; width=&quot;30&quot; height=&quot;12&quot; alt=&quot;comment count unavailable&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align: middle;&quot;/&gt; comments</description>
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  <pubDate>Sat, 21 Jun 2025 14:42:11 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Whispers in the Glass</title>
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  <description>Power. Obsession. Escape that never meant freedom.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I thought I was done writing in the &lt;i&gt;Pathfinder&lt;/i&gt; series, but here we are.  I was having a conversation with someone recently about favorite villains we&apos;ve written over the years.  I mentioned that I really loved Timothy Ross, the charismatic and manipulative leader in the Mosaic cartel, and that I was disappointed I hadn&apos;t gotten the chance to explore his character more fully in the original &lt;i&gt;Pathfinder&lt;/i&gt; novels.  The comment was made that &quot;Hey, why don&apos;t you write a spin-off story about him?&quot;, and this is the result.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I really love how the story turned out.  It was interesting writing an entire novella from the POV of one of my villains.  Ross is such a textbook sociopath, lol.  I love him so much. ♥️&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You can get your copy of &lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;Whispers in the Glass&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt; here:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Buy link: 🌒 &lt;a href=&quot;https://books2read.com/WitG&quot;&gt;books2read.com/WitG&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The e-book is now available.  Audiobook is coming soon!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Learn more about the Pathfinder series here: &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.jajakenfiction.net/Pathfinder-series/&quot;&gt;https://www.jajakenfiction.net/Pathfinder-series/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.jajakenfiction.net/Whispers-in-the-Glass/&quot;&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;+1&quot;&gt;Whispers in the Glass&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt; by J.A. Jaken&lt;br /&gt;Audiobook narrated by Dan Calley&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(M/M, Science Fiction, Suspense/Thriller)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;A pathfinder is invaluable. A captured pathfinder is unstoppable.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In a world where survival is measured not by fortune but by utility, Timothy Ross understands the game better than anyone. His tenure within Mosaic isn&apos;t built on morality—it&apos;s forged through calculation, influence, and the unwavering ability to stay &lt;i&gt;useful&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Shai would be the perfect conquest—an unbonded pathfinder, ready to be molded into whatever Ross desires. But as power shifts and alliances tighten, the battle for control is never truly won. And as the hunt for Shai moves forward, one question remains: who will hold the reins when the dust finally settles?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.jajakenfiction.net/Whispers-in-the-Glass/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.jajakenfiction.net/gallery/WitG_audiopromo1.png?ts=1750484622&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=jajaken&amp;ditemid=75861&quot; width=&quot;30&quot; height=&quot;12&quot; alt=&quot;comment count unavailable&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align: middle;&quot;/&gt; comments</description>
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  <pubDate>Sat, 21 Dec 2024 23:08:01 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Coming Soon!</title>
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  <description>🎧 &lt;font size=&quot;+1&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;Coming Soon... Consort: The House of Silence Volume 3 Audiobook!&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt; 🎧&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I&apos;m thrilled to announce that the audiobook for &lt;b&gt;Consort: The House of Silence Volume 3&lt;/b&gt; is complete and currently awaiting quality review by ACX! It should be available for sale within the next 10 days. I can&apos;t wait for you to experience it!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Narrated by the amazing Dan Calley&lt;/b&gt;, this audiobook brings everything about the House of Silence to life. From sensual and intimate scenes to high action to introspective character moments, Dan&apos;s phenomenal voice work captures the essence of this world, making it an unforgettable experience.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;The House of Silence&lt;/b&gt; is the story of an elite male bordello, a tale of sensuality, mystery, intrigue, and romance that centers around the male prostitutes and the clients whose lives are impacted there. The series follows the intertwining stories of several different characters, both staff and visitors to the establishment. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In &lt;b&gt;Consort: Volume 3&lt;/b&gt;, a lover from Master Charon&apos;s youth arrives with an urgent message from the queen, prompting jealousy from Reiji and putting the whole house on edge. When Tam goes missing, Charon and the boys are caught up in a web of intrigue, peril, and sensuality that may end up costing them their lives.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Stay tuned for the official release date and get ready to immerse yourself in this captivating world!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;🔗 &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.jajakenfiction.net/House-of-Silence-Series/&quot;&gt;https://www.jajakenfiction.net/House-of-Silence-Series/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thank you for your support, and happy listening! 🎙️✨&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=jajaken&amp;ditemid=75588&quot; width=&quot;30&quot; height=&quot;12&quot; alt=&quot;comment count unavailable&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align: middle;&quot;/&gt; comments</description>
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  <pubDate>Sun, 24 Nov 2024 15:07:26 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>New House of Silence Audiobook!</title>
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  <description>Hi everyone! Just a quick note that the audiobook for The House of Silence Vol. 3 is currently under production. This third book in the series is being narrated by Dan Calley, who was responsible for bringing the characters in the previous two books to such amazing life. I&apos;m super excited to hear what he creates out of this newest book in the series!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.jajakenfiction.net/House-of-Silence-Series/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;https://www.jajakenfiction.net/House-of-Silence-Series/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.jajakenfiction.net/House-of-Silence-Series/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.jajakenfiction.net/gallery_gen/d87313f3bab1e0d264b335128142cdb5_1000x1000_fit.jpg?ts=1731946229&quot; width=&quot;600&quot; alt=&quot;The House of Silence Vol. 3: Consort&quot; title=&quot;The House of Silence Vol. 3: Consort&quot; border=&quot;0&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=jajaken&amp;ditemid=75268&quot; width=&quot;30&quot; height=&quot;12&quot; alt=&quot;comment count unavailable&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align: middle;&quot;/&gt; comments</description>
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  <pubDate>Sat, 28 Sep 2024 23:28:35 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Audiobook Teaser</title>
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  <description>Sharing a teaser clip from the new audiobook for &lt;a href=&quot;&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;The Magician&apos;s Apprentice&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, and showing off some of Dan&apos;s incredible voice acting:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;iframe src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/0B9cYHVgqYk&quot; width=&quot;560&quot; height=&quot;315&quot; frameborder=&quot;0&quot; allowfullscreen=&quot;allowfullscreen&quot; allow=&quot;accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share&quot; data-link=&quot;https://youtube.com/watch?v=0B9cYHVgqYk&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The audiobook is currently undergoing QA on ACX&apos;s website and should be available very very soon!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;+2&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://jajakenfiction.net/the-magicians-apprentice/&quot;&gt;The Magician&apos;s Apprentice&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;+1&quot;&gt;A Prequel to the Dragon Mage Chronicles&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;by J.A. Jaken&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Narrated by: Dan Calley&lt;br /&gt;10 hours 46 minutes (108,000 words)&lt;br /&gt;Genre(s): Fantasy, Adventure, M/M Romance&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Jander Teregnan has never wanted anything more than to become a mage--to serve his king and defend his country as he explores his natural talent at commanding the strange power known as magic. Of course every apprentice needs a master, which comes with its own set of challenges...especially when the master he&apos;s chosen for himself is none other than Andrei Teresh, personal advisor to the king and master mage of the city of Vallerin.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Andrei, however, has more pressing problems on his mind than dealing with the unsolicited advances of one untrained mage-apprentice. A fierce and merciless army of unknown intent is sweeping across the land, threatening the kingdom he has sworn to protect. Even worse, dragons--long thought to have withdrawn from the world of mankind--are emerging once again and spreading chaos in their wake. Somehow, Jander must find a way to help; not only to prove that he can be of use in the defense of his kingdom and become a mage, but also to secure his place at the side of the man he hopes to claim as master both of his magic and his heart.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://jajakenfiction.net/the-magicians-apprentice/&quot;&gt;https://jajakenfiction.net/the-magicians-apprentice/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=jajaken&amp;ditemid=75115&quot; width=&quot;30&quot; height=&quot;12&quot; alt=&quot;comment count unavailable&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align: middle;&quot;/&gt; comments</description>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 23 Sep 2024 15:50:25 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Audiobook Cover Reveal!</title>
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  <description>Sharing the audiobook cover I made for THE MAGICIAN&apos;S APPRENTICE, which is finishing up production today:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://jajakenfiction.net/the-magicians-apprentice/&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://jajakenfiction.net/gallery/MAaudiocover_500x500.png?ts=1727106139&quot; border=&quot;0&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I&apos;d love to know what you all think of it!  I&apos;m really excited to get this audiobook finalized and have Dan&apos;s magnificent voice acting out there for all of you to enjoy.  He did an absolutely fantastic job on this one.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For those of you who aren&apos;t familiar with the story, here is a brief description of it:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;+2&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://jajakenfiction.net/the-magicians-apprentice/&quot;&gt;The Magician&apos;s Apprentice&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;+1&quot;&gt;A Prequel to the Dragon Mage Chronicles&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;by J.A. Jaken&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Narrated by: Dan Calley&lt;br /&gt;10 hours 46 minutes (108,000 words)&lt;br /&gt;Genre(s): Fantasy, Adventure, M/M Romance&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Jander Teregnan has never wanted anything more than to become a mage--to serve his king and defend his country as he explores his natural talent at commanding the strange power known as magic. Of course every apprentice needs a master, which comes with its own set of challenges...especially when the master he&apos;s chosen for himself is none other than Andrei Teresh, personal advisor to the king and master mage of the city of Vallerin.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Andrei, however, has more pressing problems on his mind than dealing with the unsolicited advances of one untrained mage-apprentice. A fierce and merciless army of unknown intent is sweeping across the land, threatening the kingdom he has sworn to protect. Even worse, dragons--long thought to have withdrawn from the world of mankind--are emerging once again and spreading chaos in their wake. Somehow, Jander must find a way to help; not only to prove that he can be of use in the defense of his kingdom and become a mage, but also to secure his place at the side of the man he hopes to claim as master both of his magic and his heart.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://jajakenfiction.net/the-magicians-apprentice/&quot;&gt;https://jajakenfiction.net/the-magicians-apprentice/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=jajaken&amp;ditemid=74870&quot; width=&quot;30&quot; height=&quot;12&quot; alt=&quot;comment count unavailable&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align: middle;&quot;/&gt; comments</description>
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  <pubDate>Tue, 10 Sep 2024 15:10:58 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>The Magician&apos;s Apprentice</title>
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  <description>&lt;i&gt;The Magician&apos;s Apprentice&lt;/i&gt; is on its way to becoming an audiobook at last!!!  Dan Calley has once again knocked it out of the park with his incredible voice acting and narrative flair.  All of the chapters have been recorded and now it&apos;s just a matter of tying up the loose ends before we go live with the finished product.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Some of you might remember this story in its original incarnation, back in the day.  It&apos;s been updated and fleshed out a bit for the original release version, and is currently available in both ebook and paperback.  I&apos;m super excited about the audiobook release now as well!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.jajakenfiction.net/the-magicians-apprentice/&quot;&gt;https://www.jajakenfiction.net/the-magicians-apprentice/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.jajakenfiction.net/the-magicians-apprentice/&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.jajakenfiction.net/gallery/TheMagician&amp;#39;sApprentice_audioPromo2b.png?ts=1725979962&quot; border=&quot;0&amp;quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=jajaken&amp;ditemid=74744&quot; width=&quot;30&quot; height=&quot;12&quot; alt=&quot;comment count unavailable&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align: middle;&quot;/&gt; comments</description>
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  <pubDate>Sun, 21 Jul 2024 14:03:52 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>My First Instagram Profile</title>
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  <description>I&apos;ve recently created my very first Instagram profile:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.instagram.com/jajakenfiction/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;+2&quot;&gt;https://www.instagram.com/jajakenfiction/&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I&apos;m still learning how it all works, but I&apos;ve managed to get a few things posted there.  I&apos;m planning to use it mainly to share information about my writing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It&apos;s a little lonely right now, so if you want to give me a follow I&apos;ll follow you right back, and then I can start growing a network over there.  I&apos;d love to see what sorts of things all of you are sharing on that platform.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;See you there! :)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=jajaken&amp;ditemid=74374&quot; width=&quot;30&quot; height=&quot;12&quot; alt=&quot;comment count unavailable&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align: middle;&quot;/&gt; comments</description>
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  <pubDate>Sat, 20 Jul 2024 18:35:46 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>New Website Announcement</title>
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  <description>Hello, everyone!  It&apos;s been a while since I was online.  Things in RL have gotten a little overwhelming over this past year, and it&apos;s pulled me away from pursuing any kind of creative interests.  It&apos;s been work related mainly, with a lot of new responsibilities and stresses that I had to learn how to deal with.  On top of that I&apos;ve been dealing with some lingering physical health issues, and some mental health issues, and just trying to make it from day to day.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;By now I&apos;m feeling like I&apos;ve managed to get through the worst of it, and I&apos;m feeling really positive and excited about getting back into my writing again and reconnecting with people. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;During my time away, I managed to lose my previous website domain.  So now I have an entirely new website URL:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.jajakenfiction.net/&quot;&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;+2&quot;&gt;www.jajakenfiction.net&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I&apos;ve finished moving everything over there, and now I&apos;m going to start updating the links in all of my books.  What a project that&apos;s going to be!  But it has to get done, and I know I&apos;ll feel a lot better once I have everything in place with the new website links in place.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I hope you&apos;re all doing well and enjoying your summer.  Sending all of you lots of hugs!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=jajaken&amp;ditemid=74158&quot; width=&quot;30&quot; height=&quot;12&quot; alt=&quot;comment count unavailable&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align: middle;&quot;/&gt; comments</description>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 12 May 2023 23:58:45 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>NICHOLI&apos;S VENGEANCE is finally here!!!</title>
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  <description>💕🎧 The audiobook for 𝐍𝐢𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐥𝐢&apos;𝐬 𝐕𝐞𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 is now available! 🎧💕&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Audible US: &lt;a href=&quot;https://adbl.co/42SGEkl&quot;&gt;adbl.co/42SGEkl&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Audible UK: &lt;a href=&quot;https://adbl.co/42ACRZi&quot;&gt;adbl.co/42ACRZi&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Universal Amazon link: &lt;a href=&quot;http://getbook.at/NsV&quot;&gt;getbook.at/NsV&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Smashwords link: &lt;a href=&quot;https://bit.ly/NV_SW&quot;&gt;bit.ly/NV_SW&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am so very excited to share this with all of you! Dan Calley’s fantastic performance brings each of the characters to breathtaking life as Nicki struggles to survive in a world of sensuality and terror, where the lines blur between slave and free, good and bad, desired and feared:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;iframe width=&quot;560&quot; height=&quot;315&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/_9QJXjsja-s&quot; title=&quot;YouTube video player&quot; frameborder=&quot;0&quot; allow=&quot;accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share&quot; allowfullscreen=&quot;allowfullscreen&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Audiobook read by Dan Calley&lt;br /&gt;10 hours 42 minutes (110,000 words)&lt;br /&gt;Genre(s): M/M, Dark Fantasy, Slavefic&lt;br /&gt;(𝐶𝑜𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑎𝑑𝑣𝑖𝑠𝑜𝑟𝑦: 𝑛𝑜𝑛𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑠𝑒𝑛𝑠𝑢𝑎𝑙 𝑠𝑒𝑥)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nicholi’s world goes up in flames when soldiers invade his country, leaving chaos in their wake. Captured and enslaved in a foreign land, Nicholi struggles to cope with the nightmare of slavery and adapt to the terrifying and inexplicable world he is thrust into. He draws courage from a steadfast determination to get justice for his murdered family and—he hopes—peace to himself by finding and killing the man responsible for the destruction of his village. Yet through it all, Nicholi’s greatest enemy might not be foreign powers or enemy soldiers, or even in the self-serving machinations of his fellow slaves, but himself.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.jajakenfiction.com/nicholis-vengeance&quot;&gt;bit.ly/NV_Jaken&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=jajaken&amp;ditemid=73740&quot; width=&quot;30&quot; height=&quot;12&quot; alt=&quot;comment count unavailable&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align: middle;&quot;/&gt; comments</description>
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  <pubDate>Sun, 30 Apr 2023 01:29:16 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>New video to share!</title>
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  <description>Recording for the audiobook for &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.jajakenfiction.com/nicholis-vengeance&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;Nicholi&apos;s Vengeance&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt; is officially completed!!! Dan Calley has done such an amazing job with it. His narration is engrossing, captivating, thrilling, with so much emotion and heart. I keep going back to listen to snippets of it here and there because it&apos;s just so very &lt;i&gt;good&lt;/i&gt;. 😍💖🥰&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is the promo book trailer I&apos;ve made for the novel, which includes clips from Dan&apos;s fantastic audiobook performance along with some quotes from reviews the book has received. Give it a listen if you have a couple of minutes to spare and let me know what you think! I&apos;m still learning how to create videos like this, but I think I&apos;m getting better at it as I practice doing more of them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;iframe width=&quot;560&quot; height=&quot;315&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/_9QJXjsja-s&quot; title=&quot;YouTube video player&quot; frameborder=&quot;0&quot; allow=&quot;accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share&quot; allowfullscreen=&quot;allowfullscreen&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There are just a few final admin things to wrap up in the audiobook, and then it&apos;ll be on to the QA gods at ACX for publication. It will be available for listening very soon!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.jajakenfiction.com/nicholis-vengeance&quot;&gt;bit.ly/NV_Jaken&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=jajaken&amp;ditemid=73574&quot; width=&quot;30&quot; height=&quot;12&quot; alt=&quot;comment count unavailable&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align: middle;&quot;/&gt; comments</description>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 31 Mar 2023 02:49:01 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Finally!</title>
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  <description>I&apos;m writing again!  I can hardly believe it.  I haven&apos;t written a new story in at least two years, and it has been incredibly painful not having that creative outlet to lean on.  I think with the health problems I&apos;ve had--the heart failure just over a year ago, then the scare with the uterine tumors and the surgeries and all of that madness--I just haven&apos;t had the mental fortitude for it.  Plus I had to leave the job I&apos;ve had for the past 17 years (and absolutely loved) because I can no longer do that kind of work with a diagnosis of chronic heart failure.  Which means I&apos;ve been sitting at a desk for the past year or so with a new work status of &quot;permanent light duty&quot;, which I&apos;m still trying to wrap my head around.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But I am writing again!!!  I&apos;m 38 pages into a new m/m romance novel, and it&apos;s zooming right along. It feels so GOOD to be creating new characters and new worlds like this. Kind of freeing, or maybe lightening is a better word. It feels like I&apos;m where I need to be for a change.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All of this probably sounds a bit nonsensical, but I&apos;m feeling happy and I just really wanted to share it with someone. I&apos;ll post more info about the novel as it gets closer to being finished. I&apos;ll be looking for beta readers if anyone&apos;s interested. :)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=jajaken&amp;ditemid=73261&quot; width=&quot;30&quot; height=&quot;12&quot; alt=&quot;comment count unavailable&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align: middle;&quot;/&gt; comments</description>
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  <pubDate>Sun, 19 Mar 2023 18:03:32 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>New Book Trailer Video</title>
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  <description>I am so excited about this! I&apos;ve been working for the past several days on creating a book series trailer video for &lt;a href=&quot;http://mybook.to/HoSseries&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;The House of Silence&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, and it&apos;s finally done. Please give it a watch/listen if you have a spare minute, and let me know what you think. It was really aggravating to work on, but I&apos;m pretty happy with how it turned out. I think the frustration was worth it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All of the audio clips are from Dan Calley&apos;s fantastic audiobook narration, and the quotes are from reviews the series has received on Goodreads and Amazon:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;iframe width=&quot;560&quot; height=&quot;315&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/sTIFGpe-CL8&quot; title=&quot;YouTube video player&quot; frameborder=&quot;0&quot; allow=&quot;accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share&quot; allowfullscreen=&quot;allowfullscreen&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=jajaken&amp;ditemid=73083&quot; width=&quot;30&quot; height=&quot;12&quot; alt=&quot;comment count unavailable&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align: middle;&quot;/&gt; comments</description>
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  <pubDate>Sat, 18 Mar 2023 20:49:03 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Go go go!</title>
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  <description>I just hit the go button on the audiobook for &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.jajakenfiction.com/house-of-silence-series&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;Entering the House of Silence&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. Now it&apos;s in the hands of the QA gods over at ACX, waiting on their approval. I&apos;m still feeling blown away by how good it all turned out. I had this same sort of giddy feeling the first time I listened to Dan bringing my characters to life in &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.jajakenfiction.com/sacred-guardian-series&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;Through the Last Door&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, like these characters that had until then existed only in my head are now out there for everyone to enjoy. It&apos;s an absolutely breathtaking feeling.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=jajaken&amp;ditemid=72887&quot; width=&quot;30&quot; height=&quot;12&quot; alt=&quot;comment count unavailable&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align: middle;&quot;/&gt; comments</description>
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  <pubDate>Sat, 18 Mar 2023 15:07:06 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Blown Away</title>
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  <description>Oh, my dear god.  I just finished reviewing the audio files for &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.jajakenfiction.com/house-of-silence-series&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;Entering the House of Silence&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, the 5-story prequel anthology set in the House of Silence universe, and I am still recovering from the experience. Dan Calley has completely outdone himself, with an absolutely gorgeous performance that had me literally on the edge of my seat as I was listening to it. There were parts where I couldn&apos;t breathe, and the world around me entirely ceased to exist.  The man&apos;s voice goes from cute and sweet to hot and steamy to dark and edgy all in the blink of an eye, and he makes it all seem so effortless.  I swear it has to be black magic of some kind, lol.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am REALLY looking forward to sharing the audiobook for these stories with all of you.  Whether they&apos;re your first introduction to the House of Silence characters or a side trip to spend some more time with them after you&apos;ve experienced the other books in the series, it is going to blow you away. It certainly did for me.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I think I might have to go back and listen to it again. 😁 *swoon*&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=jajaken&amp;ditemid=72506&quot; width=&quot;30&quot; height=&quot;12&quot; alt=&quot;comment count unavailable&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align: middle;&quot;/&gt; comments</description>
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  <pubDate>Sat, 11 Mar 2023 19:30:47 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>The House of Silence is now an audiobook!!! 🎧</title>
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  <description>Books 1 and 2 in &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.jajakenfiction.com/house-of-silence-series&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;The House of Silence&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt; m/m erotica series are now available in audiobook, thanks to the incredible voice acting talents of Dan Calley. Join Charon, Reiji, Tam, Danny, and Vincent as they embark on an adventure full of intrigue, mystery, and sensuality:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;b&gt;Exodus (Volume 1)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;br /&gt;US: &lt;a href=&quot;https://adbl.co/3mIyCuy&quot;&gt;adbl.co/3mIyCuy&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;UK: &lt;a href=&quot;https://adbl.co/3JvQ9ih&quot;&gt;adbl.co/3JvQ9ih&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All other marketplaces: &lt;a href=&quot;https://getbook.at/HoS1&quot;&gt;getbook.at/HoS1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;b&gt;Ricochet (Volume 2)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;br /&gt;US: &lt;a href=&quot;https://adbl.co/3YIyYyq&quot;&gt;adbl.co/3YIyYy&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;UK: &lt;a href=&quot;https://adbl.co/3YCHDT5&quot;&gt;adbl.co/3YCHDT5&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All other marketplaces: &lt;a href=&quot;https://getbook.at/HoS2&quot;&gt;getbook.at/HoS2&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.jajakenfiction.com/house-of-silence-series&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://mcusercontent.com/ce458a8736e5b8d4537dcc1c0/images/e0338b37-8786-cdb3-6a52-fbf9451f3b43.png&quot; border=&quot;0&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;+2&quot;&gt;The House of Silence&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;by J.A. Jaken&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Audiobook narrated by: Dan Calley&lt;br /&gt;Volume 1: 8 hrs 35 min (90,000 words)&lt;br /&gt;Volume 2: 8 hrs 16 min (88,000 words)&lt;br /&gt;Genres: M/M Erotica, BDSM, Gothic, Suspense&lt;br /&gt;(&lt;i&gt;Content advisory: nonconsensual sex&lt;/i&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Exodus (Volume 1) summary:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The House of Silence is an elite male bordello catering to the obscenely rich. No matter how extreme or mundane the fantasy, the House is rumored to serve. Master Charon employs a group of versatile, beautiful young men, some lewd, some innocent, many with tragic pasts and hidden secrets of their own, who depend on him for safety. Each young man -- Vincent, Danny, Reiji, Tam and more -- brings his own history and his own fears to the House of Silence.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This unpredictable mix erupts when danger threatens. A powerful nobleman strikes out at Charon and his staff, seeking to destroy them all if he&apos;s not given what he wants: one of the boys to keep for his own.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Ricochet (Volume 2) summary:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The sanctuary of The House of Silence is shattered when an influential client presents Master Charon with an ultimatum: hand over Vincent, or he&apos;ll destroy the House. When Charon refuses, he is plunged into a nightmare of reprisals, forcing him and the boys who work for him to fight for their lives, their sanity, and their right to exist. Why are some powerful men willing to destroy the House of Silence to get hold of one male prostitute? What secret threatens the governments of two countries?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Charon, Phoebe - the head of security - and all the young men of the House of Silence will have to work together. They must tap into long-hidden resources and long-denied histories for their safety and survival. To thwart the forces aligning against them, they&apos;ll need to unlock the secrets buried deep in the House&apos;s past. How much is one man&apos;s life worth to them?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://mcusercontent.com/ce458a8736e5b8d4537dcc1c0/images/3404bfa4-ffb6-6825-8699-63eb9cbb5d53.png&quot;&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&quot;The author takes you on a fantastically written journey to an alternate reality of old-worldly grandeur, in which an opulent brothel with secret passageways is home to beautiful young men and their charismatic, but mysterious master, Charon Marque. [...] You, too, will get sucked into the seductive world inside the House and the lives of its occupants.&quot;&lt;br /&gt;-The Blog of Sid Love&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&quot;I recommend this to anyone that likes Lords, rich business men, Cabals, dark fantasy, M/M erotica, sensual steamy sex, BDSM (not the soft and flowery kind), D/s, mystery, and intrigue- it’s all here, and more.&quot;&lt;br /&gt;-MM Good Book Reviews&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&quot;Wow, this is so well-written that I am amazed by it and will be reading the other books in this series. The setting, the tone, the mood... everything just pulled me in.&quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&quot;What a heart gripping emotional roller coaster well written and plot driven book. Each character in this book grabs at you and never let go. I have finished books 1 and 2 a couple days now and gosh what an impression it left. Each character was written with their own specific persona that added to the development of the plot. I cried, laughed, and struggled along with these characters which makes the impact even greater.&quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&quot;I guarantee you will fall in love with Reiji, Danny, Tam, Vincent, Brand, Lord Ander, and the heart of this family Charon. Must Must Must BUY!&quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&quot;I think what makes this book and the series of books work is that Jaken takes the time to develop interesting, 3-D characters. The characters are complicated and like real people they have strengths and weaknesses.&quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&quot;I loved Charon and his boys. Each was well developed, wonderfully flawed, and ultimately likeable. Add an uptight cop, a mysterious patron, and a lonely lord, sprinkle in a few despicable bad guys, and you&apos;ve got a sexy, intriguing story.&quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- Reader Reviews (Amazon and Goodreads)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=jajaken&amp;ditemid=72332&quot; width=&quot;30&quot; height=&quot;12&quot; alt=&quot;comment count unavailable&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align: middle;&quot;/&gt; comments</description>
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  <pubDate>Tue, 28 Feb 2023 17:00:06 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Almost there!</title>
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  <description>The audiobooks for books 1 and 2 in &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.jajakenfiction.com/house-of-silence-series&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;The House of Silence&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt; are completed and approved!  Now it&apos;s just a matter of waiting for ACX to complete the QA process, and they&apos;ll be ready to go.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These books are a bit nontraditional in that they use sex as a means to tell the story, introducing the characters and their faults--and the growth they undergo throughout the course of the story--through various sexual encounters in addition to the more driving suspense/mystery-driven plot that carries the story forward.  When I wrote the series, I wanted to try exploring a world with a kind of alternate sexual morality than our current one has, where sex is more common and shared freely among multiple partners:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Tam&lt;/b&gt;, a flamboyant son of aristocrats trying to make a name to set himself apart from the overbearing influence of his family.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Reiji&lt;/b&gt;, a penniless, hotheaded waif whose fey quality is matched by the cruelty he shows to allies and enemies alike.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Vincent&lt;/b&gt;, whose physical scars mask an even deeper wound, who has chosen to find transcendence through his suffering.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Danny&lt;/b&gt;, a winsome young beauty seeking to escape the violence of his past and somehow find the courage to forge a future worth living.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Ander&lt;/b&gt;, a grief-stricken lord desperate for any scrap of feeling to give his life meaning.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Aburon&lt;/b&gt;, whose true identity outside the walls of the House is a secret to all--or so he believes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Brand&lt;/b&gt;, a dedicated officer of the law determined to bring the House to justice for its immoral activities... if only he can avoid falling prey to its allure.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Charon&lt;/b&gt;, the owner of the House, who rules his dominion with a firm hand but is loved dearly by those he has sold his soul to protect.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.jajakenfiction.com/house-of-silence-series&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://mcusercontent.com/ce458a8736e5b8d4537dcc1c0/images/b6e83676-c6f3-c4a3-e1bb-a1588be8c083.png&quot; width=&quot;800&quot; border=&quot;0&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dan Calley has done such an incredible job of bringing these characters to life, giving them unique personalities and personas through his performance.  I really feel the emotion in it, the excitement, the tension in the more plot-driven parts of it.  There&apos;s a sense of gravity to it, and a sense of fun in the lighter parts that I really appreciate.  I&apos;m super excited to share the finished product with all of you.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Book 3 is planned for audiobook production as well, but how soon that happens will depend on how well books 1 and 2 perform.  If only I had an infinite amount of funds to spend on these projects! ^_^&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=jajaken&amp;ditemid=72060&quot; width=&quot;30&quot; height=&quot;12&quot; alt=&quot;comment count unavailable&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align: middle;&quot;/&gt; comments</description>
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  <pubDate>Tue, 14 Feb 2023 02:59:03 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Almost done!</title>
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  <description>Recording for the first audiobook in &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.jajakenfiction.com/house-of-silence-series&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;The House of Silence&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt; series is finished! I have so much love for these characters, and Dan gave such an amazing performance for them. We&apos;re doing pickups this week, and then it&apos;s on to book 2. 🥰&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=jajaken&amp;ditemid=71801&quot; width=&quot;30&quot; height=&quot;12&quot; alt=&quot;comment count unavailable&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align: middle;&quot;/&gt; comments</description>
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  <pubDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2023 00:12:49 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>New Graphic to Share</title>
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  <description>Sharing the new graphic I made for 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐇𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐒𝐢𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 because I was home sick yesterday and got bored. I also made some formatting updates to the series page on my website to make it pop a little more: &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.jajakenfiction.com/house-of-silence-series&quot;&gt;bit.ly/HoSseries&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;No new updates on the audiobook yet, but it is in the works! *bounces happily*&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.jajakenfiction.com/house-of-silence-series&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://mcusercontent.com/ce458a8736e5b8d4537dcc1c0/images/b6e83676-c6f3-c4a3-e1bb-a1588be8c083.png&quot; width=&quot;800&quot; border=&quot;0&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=jajaken&amp;ditemid=71655&quot; width=&quot;30&quot; height=&quot;12&quot; alt=&quot;comment count unavailable&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align: middle;&quot;/&gt; comments</description>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2023 00:44:16 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>New audiobook in the works!</title>
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  <description>Audiobook recording for &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://jajakenfiction.com/house-of-silence-series&quot;&gt;The House of Silence&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt; series begins tomorrow! So far we&apos;ve nailed down voices for over a dozen of the characters, and worked out pronunciations for various names and places. Dan is doing an absolutely amazing job capturing the characters with their unique personalities and speech patterns, and has been extremely patient with my requests for tweaks and changes as we go. ❤️&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I absolutely adore Charon and his boys, and all of the various escapades (and sexcapades, heh) they get up to. I&apos;m really looking forward to sharing the series in this new format, brought to life by Dan&apos;s incredible talent. It&apos;s so amazing to actually hear the voices of Reiji and Tam and Danny and dear, wounded Vincent. And Charon, of course, and Aburon and Ander and Brand and the rest..... I have so much love for this audiobook, and the first chapter hasn&apos;t even been recorded yet. 😄&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here&apos;s the newest graphic I&apos;ve made for the series.  I&apos;m really proud of how it turned out:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://jajakenfiction.com/house-of-silence-series&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://mcusercontent.com/ce458a8736e5b8d4537dcc1c0/images/c060afed-2f85-09f1-7e09-b677b25590e8.png&quot; border=&quot;0&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=jajaken&amp;ditemid=71335&quot; width=&quot;30&quot; height=&quot;12&quot; alt=&quot;comment count unavailable&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align: middle;&quot;/&gt; comments</description>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 25 Nov 2022 23:20:17 GMT</pubDate>
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  <description>Hi everyone. It&apos;s been a while since I&apos;ve been online, and I apologize for that. It&apos;s been quite a wild ride these past few months. I was in the hospital at the end of last year with heart failure, and it turns out that it&apos;s a chronic condition now. My cardiologist says that my heart itself is healthy--I exercise, I eat well--and that it&apos;s likely a genetic condition. Like there&apos;s a gene in my DNA that decided this was the time to switch on and activate it. I&apos;m on 5 new daily medications, which sucks, but it seems to be working. My latest EKG was very positive and shows that the tissue of my heart is healing from the incident that landed me in the hospital last year. As long as I continue with the medication and do what I can to minimize stress and eat well/exercise/etc., then I should be just fine and be able to go on with no real impact on my life and the way I normally live it.  Which considering the alternative is really great news.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All of that has been bad enough to deal with, but I found out at the start of the year that I had about ten pounds of tumors growing on my uterus.  How does that even happen without anyone noticing???  I was pretty sick for a while, even more so once I started undergoing treatment, but I had surgery at the start of the summer that appears to have been very successful.  Tumors gone, uterus gone, about two and a half months off of work to recover, and now I&apos;m finally beginning to feel like my old self again.  I&apos;m still highly anemic, but that seems to be the only lingering symptom my doctor is actively concerned about.  And there are pills for that, so once again I feel like I dodged a major bullet.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So yeah. Not a big fan of 2022. But at the same time, I really can&apos;t complain because everything could have been so much worse. So in a weird way I also feel very lucky, and blessed, and very happy to be alive.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I hope you&apos;re all having a wonderful autumn and enjoying yourselves as the year is drawing to a close. I truly appreciate each and every one of you. ❤️&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=jajaken&amp;ditemid=70982&quot; width=&quot;30&quot; height=&quot;12&quot; alt=&quot;comment count unavailable&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align: middle;&quot;/&gt; comments</description>
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  <pubDate>Sun, 15 May 2022 17:05:55 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>A New Book Trailer!</title>
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  <description>I&apos;ve been in a bit of a creative slump recently because there have been a lot of things going on (our family cat died after 17 years, our house flooded and went through over three months of repairs, and I&apos;ve been struggling with some health issues), but I&apos;m starting to feel that spark of wanting to create something new once again.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So I pulled out my trusty video editor the other day and started playing around with the idea of creating a book trailer for my sci-fi noncon novel &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.jajakenfiction.com/pathfinder&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;Pathfinder&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, and this is what I came up with.  It&apos;s a little gritty, a little racy, and I think it captures the atmosphere of the novel really well.  I think the music works well, and it features some clips from the audiobook that was narrated by the devilishly talented Dan Calley.  I really love how it turned out. ❤️&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;YouTube flagged it as 18+, so you have to go to their site to watch it while you&apos;re logged in to prove you&apos;re an adult.  I&apos;m not sure if that might intrigue readers into clicking or make them not want to bother, but it is what it is.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Take a peek and give it a like if you feel so inclined.  And feel free to share it with anyone you think might be interested! :)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://youtu.be/kG3uWuRDX90&quot;&gt;https://youtu.be/kG3uWuRDX90&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;iframe width=&quot;560&quot; height=&quot;315&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/kG3uWuRDX90&quot; title=&quot;YouTube video player&quot; frameborder=&quot;0&quot; allow=&quot;accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture&quot; allowfullscreen=&quot;allowfullscreen&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=jajaken&amp;ditemid=70661&quot; width=&quot;30&quot; height=&quot;12&quot; alt=&quot;comment count unavailable&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align: middle;&quot;/&gt; comments</description>
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  <pubDate>Sat, 01 Jan 2022 16:18:31 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>SG4 is finally here!!!!</title>
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  <description>The final book in the Sacred Guardian m/m fantasy series is now available!!! *throws confetti and blows party horns*&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Universal Amazon Link: &lt;a href=&quot;http://getbook.at/SG-4&quot;&gt;getbook.at/SG-4&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Find the previous books in the Sacred Guardian series here:&lt;br /&gt;Amazon: &lt;a href=&quot;http://mybook.to/SGseries&quot;&gt;mybook.to/SGseries&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Audible: &lt;a href=&quot;http://bit.ly/audioSG&quot;&gt;bit.ly/audioSG&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Author&apos;s Website: &lt;a href=&quot;http://bit.ly/SGseries&quot;&gt;bit.ly/SGseries&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://getbook.at/SG-4&quot;&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;Dancing the Knife&apos;s Edge&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (Sacred Guardian #4)&lt;br /&gt;by J.A. Jaken&lt;br /&gt;Genres: Fantasy, Adventure, M/M Romance&lt;br /&gt;It has been over a year since Kaori took the throne, and he and Hunter are at last ready to become married under Kazurian law. However, a brutal attack against Hunter just days before the wedding suggests that not all of Kazure is in favor of the alliance. Kaori goes on a desperate quest to save Hunter&apos;s life even as a new enemy arises, slaughtering the priests and priestesses inside the Summer Temple for unknown reasons. Finding a solution to these two mysteries will determine whether or not Hunter manages to survive, and if the kingdom of Kazure will continue to exist at all.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://mybook.to/SGseries&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://mcusercontent.com/ce458a8736e5b8d4537dcc1c0/images/b0d4ed69-014f-25fe-4f5e-69acceb2484e.png&quot; border=&quot;0&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=jajaken&amp;ditemid=70493&quot; width=&quot;30&quot; height=&quot;12&quot; alt=&quot;comment count unavailable&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align: middle;&quot;/&gt; comments</description>
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  <pubDate>Tue, 28 Dec 2021 04:32:56 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Sacred Guardian #4</title>
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  <description>&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://getbook.at/SG-4&quot;&gt;Dancing the Knife&apos;s Edge&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;, the final book in the Sacred Guardian m/m fantasy series, is just about live! I can hardly believe it. Just a few more days and it&apos;ll be out there in the world for all of you to read. I&apos;m excited and nervous about it all at the same time. I&apos;m absolutely in love with it, but I can&apos;t help feeling a bit anxious all the same.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.dancalley.com/&quot;&gt;Dan Calley&lt;/a&gt; will be narrating the audiobook for this latest addition to the series as well. He&apos;s planning to start recording early next week. So exciting!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You can still preorder the newest book on Amazon to have it appear on your Kindle device on January 1st: ⚡&lt;a href=&quot;http://getbook.at/SG-4&quot;&gt;getbook.at/SG-4&lt;/a&gt;⚡&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The rest of the Sacred Guardian series can be found here:&lt;br /&gt;Amazon: &lt;a href=&quot;http://mybook.to/SGseries&quot;&gt;mybook.to/SGseries&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Audible: &lt;a href=&quot;http://bit.ly/audioSG&quot;&gt;bit.ly/audioSG&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://getbook.at/SG-4&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://mcusercontent.com/ce458a8736e5b8d4537dcc1c0/images/7763ae9c-2ca0-b270-7344-cfaa483bfe03.png&quot; border=&quot;0&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=jajaken&amp;ditemid=70223&quot; width=&quot;30&quot; height=&quot;12&quot; alt=&quot;comment count unavailable&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align: middle;&quot;/&gt; comments</description>
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  <pubDate>Tue, 17 Aug 2021 00:30:26 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>New preorder announcement!</title>
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  <description>The final book in the Sacred Guardian m/m fantasy series is now available for preorder!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://getbook.at/SG-4&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://mcusercontent.com/ce458a8736e5b8d4537dcc1c0/images/c8d7096a-0706-cd2e-6340-7c8eb6aa3611.png&quot; border=&quot;0&quot;&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;DANCING THE KNIFE&apos;S EDGE&lt;/b&gt; by J.A. Jaken&lt;br /&gt;Sacred Guardian series #4&lt;br /&gt;Genres: Fantasy, Adventure, M/M Romance&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It has been over a year since Kaori took the throne, and he and Hunter are at last ready to become married under Kazurian law. However, a brutal attack against Hunter just days before the wedding suggests that not all of Kazure is in favor of the alliance. Kaori goes on a desperate quest to save Hunter&apos;s life even as a new enemy arises, slaughtering the priests and priestesses inside the Summer Temple for unknown reasons. Finding a solution to these two mysteries will decide whether or not Hunter manages to survive, and if Kaori will be able to continue as the High Lord of Kazure at all.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Preorder link: &lt;a href=&quot;http://getbook.at/SG-4&quot;&gt;getbook.at/SG-4&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Find the previous books in the Sacred Guardian m/m fantasy series here:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Amazon: &lt;a href=&quot;http://mybook.to/SGseries&quot;&gt;mybook.to/SGseries&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Audible: &lt;a href=&quot;http://bit.ly/audioSG&quot;&gt;bit.ly/audioSG&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Author&apos;s Website: &lt;a href=&quot;http://bit.ly/SGseries&quot;&gt;bit.ly/SGseries&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Please check out the book trailer video I made for the series below! This is the very first video trailer I&apos;ve ever made, and I didn&apos;t really know what I was doing. So please be kind, lol. I self-taught by watching a few YouTube videos and making use of some open source audio/video editing tools. Add an unseemly number of hours of practice, messing up, starting over, and near endless amounts of tweaking, and voila! A video trailer is born. 😄&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Be sure to turn the volume up when you watch it! I included several clips from Dan Calley&apos;s amazing narration from the audiobooks. ❤️&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;iframe src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/lognOuqyLko&quot; width=&quot;560&quot; height=&quot;315&quot; frameborder=&quot;0&quot; allowfullscreen=&quot;allowfullscreen&quot; data-link=&quot;https://youtube.com/watch?v=lognOuqyLko&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=jajaken&amp;ditemid=69960&quot; width=&quot;30&quot; height=&quot;12&quot; alt=&quot;comment count unavailable&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align: middle;&quot;/&gt; comments</description>
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