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J.J. Kīmmorist
Приєднався 31 тра 2020
Fantasy, science fiction, and horror author.
Follow me on my writing journey from my very first year writing to now!
Follow me on my writing journey from my very first year writing to now!
The Empty Room | Short Horror Story by J.J. Kimmorist
Ok, so I'm not the greatest narrator, but I hope you enjoyed the story.
Tell me about the room in YOUR home you hate going into.
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You can find my latest novel here: TRIALS FOR THE HAUNTED
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Tell me about the room in YOUR home you hate going into.
JOIN MY READER COMMUNITY HERE: www.subscribepage.io/g4n7d0
You can find my latest novel here: TRIALS FOR THE HAUNTED
books2read.com/u/bzBlkj
FB: kimmorist
IG: kimmorist
Twitter: that_freak_jj
Website: www.kimmorist.com
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Character Driven vs Plot Driven | Biblio Nerd Collab
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Do you prefer plot driven or character driven stories? Which is more important: a great story or great writing? Here is an author and a reader perspective on the topics. Let us know your thoughts in the comments! Check out The Biblio Nerd here: UA-cam channel: www.youtube.com/@The-Biblio-Nerd IG: thebiblionerd Watch our collab video on Fourth Wing here: COMING SOON Bloopers reel ...
What I've Learned After 4 Years Writing
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Year 4 of my writing journey is in the books! I accomplished a lot this past year and learned through my mistakes. Let me know what YOU learned in 2023 and what your goals are for 2024. Get TRIALS FOR THE HAUNTED in print, ebook, and audiobook here: books2read.com/u/bzBlkj JOIN MY READER COMMUNITY HERE: www.subscribepage.io/g4n7d0 FB: kimmorist IG: kimmorist Twitter:...
Audiobook Sneak Peak + How to Get it for FREE!
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Trials for the Haunted audiobook is available now! Narrated by Michella Moss Get Trials for the Haunted in hardback, paperback, ebook, and audiobook here: books2read.com/u/bzBlkj JOIN MY READER COMMUNITY and send me an email to get a promo code for a free download of the audiobook (while they last): www.subscribepage.io/g4n7d0 FB: kimmorist IG: kimmorist Twitter: twi...
Trials for the Haunted Book Trailer
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Haunted by the shadows of her past lives, Syn must conquer the deadliest trials of the dark realm or be consumed by her own soul. TRIALS FOR THE HAUNTED will be released November 14th, 2023! Pre-order here: books2read.com/u/bzBlkj JOIN MY READER COMMUNITY HERE: www.subscribepage.io/g4n7d0 FB: kimmorist IG: kimmorist Twitter: that_freak_jj Website: www.kim...
Cover Reveal | Release Date | Quarter 2 and 3 Update 2023
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Filling you all in on my update for quarter 2 and 3 of 2023. I’m sorry I missed my Q2 check in. What I didn’t tell you all was that I was pregnant and I just had my daughter in June, so I’ve been a little busy… A few things for this quarter: -Cover reveal and release date for Trials for Haunted -ARC street team recruitment -Finalization of manuscript -Revision of book 2 Pre-order Trials for the...
2023 Quarter 1 Update | Mistakes I Made in Self-publishing
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Mistakes made and things accomplished so far this year such as: Mistakes I made in self-publishing A side-project that took over my life Writing a sequel novel in 62 days JOIN MY READER COMMUNITY HERE: www.subscribepage.io/g4n7d0 Read HEIRESS here: books2read.com/u/47V8jR FB: kimmorist IG: kimmorist Twitter: that_freak_jj Website: www.kimmorist.com
Apps and Websites I Use as an Author
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Let me know what other apps and websites YOU use! Websites & Apps I use as a Writer: Always pulled up: • Dictionary/thesaurus • One Drive • Google Docs/sheets For business: • Mailerlite • Godaddy • Wordpress • Buy Me a Coffee • Homebase For marketing: • UA-cam • Instagram • Facebook • Twitter • Word Swag • Linktree For publishing: • Draft2digital • Shutterstock • Amazon • Google play books For ...
Interview with Author and YouTuber: Rod Gilley
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I had an awesome chat with author and youtuber Rod Gilley! Check out Rod's Gallery of Works: www.rdgbooks.com/gallery-of-works Rod's UA-cam Channel: www.youtube.com/@rodgilley-writer Rod's Novelette THE HERO, THE FEAR, AND THE DATE: www.amazon.com/HERO-FEAR-DATE-ROD-GILLEY/dp/B0BQ99L5L6/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1676153777&sr=8-1 Rod's Twitter: bratrod64 Thank you all ...
Valentine's Day Reading "Sweet Lilly"
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My first reading of my work! Sorry I'm not a great narrator. You can read HEIRESS here: books2read.com/u/47V8jR JOIN MY READER COMMUNITY HERE: www.subscribepage.com/g4n7d0 FB: kimmorist IG: kimmorist Twitter: that_freak_jj Website: www.kimmorist.com
What I Learned After 3 Years Writing
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Year three had some triumphs and failures, but I'd thankful for everything I learned. What did YOU learn from your writing journey this past year? JOIN MY READER COMMUNITY HERE: www.subscribepage.io/g4n7d0 You can find my novella, HEIRESS, here: books2read.com/u/47V8jR FB: kimmorist IG: kimmorist Twitter: that_freak_jj Website: www.kimmorist.com
Interview with Author T. L. Humphrey
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T.L. Humphrey-author of the Katie's Journey series and the Honor, Courage, and Love series AND professional Proofreader/Copyeditor-came to chat about writing and editing! You can find Tricia... On her website: www.writeonproofandedit.com On Facebook: tl.humphrey On Instagram: thlhumphreyauthor You can find all Tricia's book here: books2read.com/ap/n0QbMv/TL-Humphrey J...
I Self-Published My First Novella! (Writing a Band's Concept Album)
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The novella I wrote in collaboration with the band Alyiria is out NOW! Here is the story behind the project from start to finish. Read the novella here: books2read.com/u/47V8jR Listen to the music here: tratore.ffm.to/heiress Learn more about the world! Check out Alyiria's website: www.alyiriaproject.com Alyiria's UA-cam: www.youtube.com/@alyiriaproject Interview with the band Alyiria here: ua-...
I Sold My First Novel (without an Agent)!
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Here's the story on how I sold my first book to a small press publisher without an agent! My novella HEIRESS is out now! Find it here: books2read.com/u/47V8jR JOIN MY READER COMMUNITY HERE: www.subscribepage.io/g4n7d0 FB: kimmorist IG: kimmorist Twitter: that_freak_jj Website: www.kimmorist.com
Quarter 3 Update | I Wrote a Bad Book
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Have you ever written a book, got to the end, and decided it SUCKS? Let me know down in the comments. Find my proofreader/copy editor here: repaskyproofreading.com Read 3 Chapters of Alyiria here: landing.mailerlite.com/webforms/landing/a0p5s4 The full novella is OUT NOW! Read it here: books2read.com/u/47V8jR JOIN MY READER COMMUNITY HERE: www.subscribepage.io/g4n7d0 FB: kimmorist ...
Unboxing Nevernight Special Edition Boxset by LitJoy
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Unboxing Nevernight Special Edition Boxset by LitJoy
Things I Learned After my 2nd Year Writing
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Things I Learned After my 2nd Year Writing
How to Write a Novel in 8 Weeks While Working Full-time
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How to Write a Novel in 8 Weeks While Working Full-time
How I Got Published My First Year Writing
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How I Got Published My First Year Writing
How to Give Feedback at Writing Groups
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How to Give Feedback at Writing Groups
10 Things I Learned my 1st Year Writing
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10 Things I Learned my 1st Year Writing
Testing Writing Advice: Author Platform
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Testing Writing Advice: Author Platform
Thats awesome, its great youre being so transparent for those of us who would also like to go on a similar journey :) Congratulations on the baby!
Ah! This is so creepy! Your narration is great!
I felt the hairs stand up on the back of my neck! Fantastic!
I love this. More please!
All these series were also such part of my upbringing, it made me start rereading the blue is nightmare series again
I am all about the lovable characters! And I much prefer great story over great writing but I appreciate both!
WOW JJ I loved this! you should start doing more short stories. I feel that everyone has the room in their house. I can't wait For more like this!!!
Thank you! Maybe next time I’ll get my husband to narrate. He’d do a much better job:)
OMG why is this room in my house 😭 I avoid going in there at all costs.
Ditto!
@kimmorist give us more. Go on. Chop chop!
@@The-Biblio-Nerdmake sure you don't go in at night when the windows are open. There's no telling what might be gazing into the room. o.o
I really liked this video. You guys have such great chemistry. Hope you make mroe videos together in the future. When it comes to books I prefer plot driven over characters but that doesn't mean I can't read a character driven book, it's just that I'm okay with a story having two-dimensional characters or superficial characters as long as the plot is good, but I'm less forgiving of a story when it has good characters but a bad plot. I'm pretty much the same with movies. When I rediscovered my love for reading books 20 years ago I started with a lot of sci-fi books written in the 19th century-because they were public domain by then, and I absolutely loved them, and in most of those books from that era there's very little character development. I mean development as in characters that feel fleshed out, and alive. The main focus was always the plot, and I was perfectly fine with that! When you think about it, when someone is telling you a good story, it's all about how the person tells it and how good the "plot" or events of the story are, and I think this carries over to novels too. You can have a writer who writes pretty but if the story is bad at its inception, then the book won't hold your attention, and vise versa. You MUST have both qualities reach a certain level or standard for a novel to be enjoyable. Each person will have their own baseline but I think that if one of those qualities lag too far behind the other, it'll make any person stop reading it, no matter how forgiving the reader is. That Joker film was amazing. Definitely one of the best performances in cinema, but it's Joaquin Phoenix so there was no doubt his performance was going to be good. You should check out another movie of his, a low sci-fi/romance film called "Her". J.J., you cracked me up with what you said about the Catcher in the Rye. I've known about that book from about the time I was in high school, if not before, and just reading the bookk's description it's never been something I can convince myself to read. Just sounds so boring. Maybe if I give it a chance I'd end up liking it but there's SO MANY BOOKS on my list that I want to read that I'm more interested in that I just can't justify reading it now. hahaha.
I think you and I are definitely on the same page when it comes to character driven vs plot driven. And I did watch “Her” years ago and it left me feeling a little… icky? Haha idk I think maybe that was the intention with the film. I’d like to rewatch it though. And yes, don’t waste your time with Catcher in the rye!
I'd give my life savings to watch the movie adaptation of your book!
Hahah I’d love to see how Hollywood would either amplify it or destroy it with their adaptation 🤣
This was such a fun video! Thank you for inviting me to appear on your channel! I am so honored!
We’ll have to do it again whenever we feel like having a good laugh and spending countless hours editing!
More people, le gasp 😱
Trials for the Haunted is such an amazing book! Loved it! I want to listen to the audiobook even though I've read your book twice! I'm still trying to master the one handed typing.
😃 Give it time! The one handed typing will come!
I dunno how to get on the Advanced Reader list, but next time there is one, my wife and I would love it!
I'll add you to the list! Thank you so much for your support!
Congratulations, this is a big inspiration for me.
Thank you so much!!
So proud of you, JJ!
Thank you!!
Very nice! Already pre-ordered! Can't wait to read it. :-)
😁😁😁😁
Wow!!!! A FANTASTIC TRAILER!!!!! I can't wait to buy this book!!!!! Sounds Amazing!!!!!
Thank you!!! Hope you enjoy the book!!
Wow! This was really cool!
Thank you!! I’m glad it turned out well, those 45 seconds took HOURS haha:)
Hey! I'm glad to see you posting on this channel again. Welcome back. There's something I want to comment on but I'll be messaging you about it elsewhere. Can't wait for your book to get released! Congratulations again!
Congratulations🥳on everything both motherhood and career milestones are amazing accomplishments!
Thank you so much!!
🔥 oooo cant wait to read it
Hope you like it!! Thank you for supporting🤘🏻
Thank you. I finally got up the nerve to join a group but I'm so new to writing I don't know how to critique properly. I don't know the terminology to use or what to listen for. I mostly point out repetition or redundancy in wording, but then I feel like a noob listening to the"editorial" and professional feedback from others. They catch things I wouldn't even think of
I'm very happy to hear that you got to enjoy the pleasure of "Free Flow Art" pantsing your new story. I always consider that to be the absolute joy of writing! One of the things I really like about you is your open honesty, this is a wonderful video!!!! Very well done!!!!!
Wait, I'm just finding out that you sold a book to a publisher and it's a planned trilogy. That's awesome! When will I get to read it?
It's projected to be out this November!!!!
@@kimmorist that's great! I can't wait to read it. Please, let me know when it's about to come out!
@@GrimAhren Absolutely!!
Over the past few years I've heard and read writing advice from different popular and published authors (past and present), and also what their specific workflow might look like when compared to others. One thing I kept coming across what's the sentiment that most of what you write or ideas you come up with will be bad. You have to keep practicing and figuring out what is bad or wrong with what you wrote and improving upon it. Creative writing is a grind until you finally can pick out a precious gem that you will be proud of. Your dad is absolutely right, it is a learning! Practice makes perfect. I wish you the best of luck and I'll be supporting you along the way.
Thank you so much for your support! It's been a fun journey so far, just gotta stay on that grind!
I highly recommend Merriam-Webster for your online dictionary/thesaurus needs. As an editor, it's the industry standard and I use it every day. There are ads but they don't interrupt my workflow and it may be an improvement over what you use now. Great video, JJ!
Great list! I use a few of these as well. Google Play books' AI narration has been on my backlog for a while. I need to at least make those files for myself before its out of the free beta! And people think I'm nuts for using PowerPoint as basically photoshop light. Lol. I do that too!
Glad I'm not the not the only one who uses powerpoint for everything! Let me know if you end up using the Google play narration. Curious to see how it works!
Hi JJ, a great video! You once commented that you were impressed with my business sense. Well, I can sure say I am impressed with yours! You are using several things that I don't use (yet). Oh yes, you do a great job on your UA-cam thumbnails! And, your intro is very cool :) Keep up the good work!
Thanks Rod!!
I dont know why, but the Star Wars crawl for the Draft2Digital made me chuckle.
Excellent! Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for watching!
@@kimmorist Do you want to grow your UA-cam channel?
I just finished Empire the vampire, and he immediately shot up to my favorite author!
I LOVE LOVE LOVED Empire of the Vampire too!!
@@kimmorist I claim it as my favorite book, but I am reading Eleventh Cycle… and it’s looking like it will have competition🤘🏼
@@flywithty1 I’ll have to add that to my TBR shelf!
I had Rod do a final pass on my next book to avoid the press publish method of proofreading. He undersells his editing skills. Caught a lot of stuff the last pass missed. Although we both probably needed to research archaic English verbs.
Ladies and gentlemen, this is Science Fiction writer T.S. Hottle!!!! One of the very best I've ever read! Mr. Hottle, thank you so much for the kind words! That really meant a lot to me!!!!
An informative interview. You're a smooth interviewee, Rod. Great probing questions!
Hi Kimberley! You are always so kind. Thank you! And yes, JJ is an amazing interviewer! She came up with great questions! You should see if she has a spot for you on her show! You will really enjoy chatting with JJ, she is friendly, charming, intelligent, and kind. Did I mention... She's a very strong writer too!!!!!!
Thank you JJ I had never been a guest before. I was so nervous!!!! You helped me relax and you made me feel so welcome on your show. You are a skilled writer, a rockin' metalhead, and a very intelligent, honest, caring person. It is an absolute honor to be your writer-friend. Sincerely, thank you!
Thank you!! You’re welcome back anytime! I really enjoyed talking with you.
To all writers: You must be a guest on JJ's show!!!! She took a goof like me, and made me look pretty ok 😄 She is so smart and creative. She is honest and real. You will love talking with her!!!!!!!!
This story is sick!! It has a plot I think it’s pretty fun to imagine I also liked the video format, keep going A cool idea to increment the format is to add a smooth cinematic song to help get everything in the mood
Thank you!! And yes, I thought about adding the song to the background but I didn’t want it to get copyright claimed. I’m always hesitant with using music for that reason.
Awesome!
Very much looking forward to more readings by you!!!!!
First: A wonderful story!!!! Second: Where did you find those fantastic graphics? Third: Your reading of this great story was perfect!!!!! Good scary tones mixed with a hidden passion (Did that come from within?)!!!!! This is one of the very best productions I've seen on UA-cam!!!! Very, very well done!!!!!!
Thanks Rod!! I’m glad you though it turned out ok. I found all the pics on google images lol if you can believe that. Thank you again for all your support!!
Marvelous story, looking forward to seeing more of your writing :)
Thank you so much!! I’ll keep you posted on future projects:)
hey, aspiring author here :) i was wondering if you could share the questions you asked your beta readers or just generally share how you got the questions? i’m struggling with finding questions that aren’t super broad but aren’t super specific and would love a first-hand opinion!
You know I'm older than you. I hope I will live long enough to kick back and enjoy the following: !!! WORLD-WIDE BROADCAST !!! "Somehow, our guest today found the time between hundreds of interviews, to come on our broadcast! President of the United States is watching this live broadcast today! Ladies and gentlemen, please help me welcome J.J. Kimmorist!" - - - Massive worldwide applause!!!!!
Hahahaha wow! That’s the dream. Lol just kidding, I’d be happy with a small but dedicated audience. …but you never know. It doesn’t hurt to dream big!!
@@kimmorist Someone told me once, "Reach for the stars! If you land on a mountain, you got pretty far!"
It's definitely hard when we're trying to get our work out there. Even in my field, I've been sending out so many emails and applications but many of them don't lead to anything. Twitter seems to be a good bet to get your name out there. Keep up the hard work! Writing a book, even if it's "bad" is still great since you learn from the experience. And congrats on opening your own LLC! It's great seeing all you've been doing these past two years!
Thank you so much!! Yes, it’s a long road but as they say “nothing takes the place of persistence.” I appreciate your kind words!
Love your videos. :) I'm looking forward to reading your latest book.
Hey, thank you so much! I appreciate your support!
J.J. : You so impress!!!!! You did a great job on the thumbnail, and you kept the interview moving along very smoothly. I really enjoyed watching this!!!!!!
Thank you so much!! I’ll be interviewing you next!! 😎
@@kimmorist Cool !
Tricia: Wow, you are so much more relaxed in that setting. You represented so well! The editing tips you shared were so excellent, and most editors would not share such knowledge for free. This tells me that you care more about genuinely helping writers than just making a buck. Very well done!
PATIENCE: I am the most impatient man you'll likely ever meet. But, I have learned in the world of writing, you must have patience. BELIEF: Believe in yourself. You are right about where you should be in the current stage of your writing career. Doubting yourself can be crippling. From what I've seen thus far, YOU ROCK!!!!!!
Absolutely! Patience and belief are a couple of the virtues I had to refine on my writing journey. Both will get you where you need to be in the end. 🤘🏻
OK, this is just COOOOOOL !!!!!!
Thank you! It was such a fun project to work on!
It's been a pleasure working with you J.J.!! We're really glad to have you helping us make this world alive in such an amazing way.
Thank you! Looking forward to all the dark and gruesome tales we will tell in the future! 💀
Well done! Congratulations!