SICK HEART, Huss, JA [novels for students .txt] 📗

fine if you hate it. I knew what I was doing…) the personality of the characters, the unlikelihood of a little boy surviving out on an abandoned oil rig for three months and being fed by a bird, whatever it is – well, then that’s totally fine.

I don’t care if people hate my stories.

But I absolutely care if people mischaracterize my story to use it in their political agenda.

Fuck. Politics.

This is what I think the dubcon thing was about.

I am not political. I don’t even watch the fucking news. And other than the snow storm that just dumped three feet of snow into my driveway overnight, I have absolutely no idea what is happening in the world right now because I live in the literal middle of nothing.

Every day of my life I see more cows than people and I don’t own cows, guys. The rancher across the road does. I see more of his cows than I do people in this world on a daily basis.

I unfollow anyone on my social media that posts about politics. It’s nothing personal, and I don’t unfriend them, I just don’t like the way people are divided right now and politics is the number one way people self-segregate themselves into groups.

When I go on Instagram I like to look at pictures of crystals, and flowers, and books, and outer space. I like quotes about giving no fucks and Stoicism.

When I’m on Facebook I hang out in my reader group, Shrike Bikes, where we have a strict no politics rule. I really don’t look at anything else.

And I do almost nothing on Twitter but post up new release pics or posts about books on sale because Twitter is a cesspool of unavoidable hate. I do not understand how anyone gets joy out of Twitter.

So if you think this story is part of MY political agenda, you’re wrong.

That’s your political agenda speaking, not mine. Because I don’t have one.

I write stories that make people question things because if I do have an agenda (and I don’t – I refuse to be invested in changing people’s minds about their world view), then my agenda would be question everything.

That’s it. That’s what I stand for.

Question. Everything.

Don’t just accept what you are told. Go find the answers for yourself.

And I know that this EOBS won’t change anyone’s mind, but I’ve said my piece about it and everyone gets a chance to hear my point of view.

Not one damn thing about what I have written in this book can be misconstrued. It has all been spelled out for you.

Either you are the type of reader who wants to lie about my motivations so they fit your world view, or you’re not. I already wrote that EOBS in Bossy Jesse. And trust me, the mean bitches came out of the floorboards like cockroaches to put that EOBS down after it was published. You can see these sad, unhappy people on display anywhere reviews are written. They don’t even realize how sad they are. They just keep throwing hate anywhere they can to make themselves feel special, and better, and “worthy”.

But that’s got nothing to do with me.

That’s all them.

So who gives a fuck.

Thank you for reading, thank you for reviewing, and I’ll see you in the next book!

Julie

JA Huss

March 15, 2021

I had written a whole other End of Book Shit about some other points in the story before I got this ridiculous dubcon ‘feedback’. So I’m gonna paste that below so you can read it. But I’m not gonna put that part in the audiobook version because even though I like what it says, I don’t want to say those words out loud anymore. This EOBS I wrote above is the “true” End of Book Shit and what happened to my story between writing that first one and this one is the only thing that matters.

So here’s the first EOBS:

Welcome to the End of Book Shit. If you’re new here, this is the part of the book where I get to say anything I want and just generally write about the story and process. I don’t really edit this, so ignore the typos. And normally I write these very last minute. Usually a day or two before publication, but I’m writing this on February 18, 2021 because the manuscript needs to be somewhere tomorrow and I actually have no idea when this book will release.

Sick Heart.

I came up with the title of this book over a year ago and it was on my schedule to be written like 6 times and it never got done. I had made the first cover long before I ever started writing it. I had made the second cover long before I started writing it. And this cover it released with is the third design. That’s how long this book sat on my “to be written” list.

I finally started writing it in August of 2020, but I was also trying to finish up the final Bossy Brothers book and the final Harem Station book, so it got set aside for several months before I went back to it in January 2021.

So this book took me a while. And when I started it I had plans to write a MMA fighter book. Probably enemies to lovers. The girl was the daughter of a man who did horrible things to the hero when he was a small child. And the hero was a major dick to this girl because she was his revenge plan. It was going to be very “on trope”. Very enemies to lovers/captive romance.

Obviously, that’s not how it really turned out. Though most of that is still in this story and there are dark undertones floating around in the background, it’s not a dark book at all. I think it’s actually one of the most romantic books I’ve ever written.

There is a lot of violence, for sure. But learning to fight