J.A. Shieldsmith

Obligatory self-indulgent welcome post

I knew it was coming. You knew it was coming. Or maybe you didn't, because maybe, you have no idea who the hell I am. Which, as luck would have it, is the entire point of this post! I'm J.A. Shieldsmith. I write fiction, primarily

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This is a test. A prototype. The roughest of rough drafts, if one can even call it that. Is a draft a rough draft when you, the author, know it's destined for the trashcan? It's weird to even say that, as I almost never (and I