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@jajablonski.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gyOct 5, 2026, 3:02 PM

Sending out "Thank You" copies to my beta readers this week. Here's what one told me when I let her know.

🥰

#AcademicMystery #CollegeMystery #BelovedCharacters #NotCosyButWarmhearted #HappyAuthor

RESOLUTE DEATH pre-order info here: https://jajablonski.com/books/

White text on a dark red background framed by a black and white tree trunks reads: “I cannot wait to hold a copy in my hands, and see everyone again.” Text below that reads “Email message from an early reader.”Cover of J.A. Jablonski's book RESOLUTE DEATH. Cover art is dramatically stark. Against a white background, a black ink wash illustration of a raven in flight is in the upper half. Below is the title & author's name in a dark red, all-caps "Deadhead Rough" font. Entire image is set against a textured, deep red background. Text along the bottom reads "Exclusively in print."
@jajablonski.bsky.socialOct 5, 2026, 3:02 PM

Sending out "Thank You" copies to my beta readers this week. Here's what one told me when I let her know.

🥰

#AcademicMystery #CollegeMystery #BelovedCharacters #NotCosyButWarmhearted #HappyAuthor

RESOLUTE DEATH pre-order info here: jajablonski.com/books/

White text on a dark red background framed by a black and white tree trunks reads: “I cannot wait to hold a copy in my hands, and see everyone again.” Text below that reads “Email message from an early reader.”Cover of J.A. Jablonski's book RESOLUTE DEATH. Cover art is dramatically stark. Against a white background, a black ink wash illustration of a raven in flight is in the upper half. Below is the title & author's name in a dark red, all-caps "Deadhead Rough" font. Entire image is set against a textured, deep red background. Text along the bottom reads "Exclusively in print."
@jajablonski.bsky.socialOct 4, 2026, 11:12 AM

The grand unboxing tradition in publishing is always fun, more so for self-publishing authors. After all the imagining, effort, and hope, the gift to oneself!

RESOLUTE DEATH, my academic mystery, debuts 28 October. Preorder: jajablonski.com/books/

#AcademicMystery #CollegeMystery #CollegeCrime

@jajablonski.bsky.socialOct 2, 2026, 10:15 AM

Get you a sweetie who makes you a chocolate mug cake garnished with vanilla ice cream to celebrate your cover reveal day!

Recipe: tastesbetterfromscratch.com/chocolate-mu...

Preorder info (plus bonus audio of Prelude) here:
jajablonski.com/books/

#AcademicMystery #CollegeMystery

Viewed from above. On a white, restaurant dessert plate, a chocolate mug cake and scoop of vanilla ice cream. Cake is lightly sprinkled with powdered sugar, entire dessert decorated with light spritz of chocolate syrup.Cover of J.A. Jablonski's book RESOLUTE DEATH. Cover art is dramatically stark. Against a white background, a black ink wash illustration of a raven in flight is in the upper half. Below is the title & author's name in a dark red, all-caps "Deadhead Rough" font. Entire image is set against a textured, deep red background. Text along the bottom reads "Exclusively in print."
@jajablonski.bsky.socialOct 1, 2026, 3:12 PM

🎉 Cover Reveal Day! 🥳

So jazzed to show off the cover of RESOLUTE DEATH, my academic mystery novel debuting on 28 October!

Preorder info here (plus bonus audio narration of the opening Prelude): jajablonski.com/books/

(Book description in alt-text.)

#AcademicMystery #CollegeMystery #CollegeCrime

Front and back cover of Resolute Death by J.A. Jablonski. Original art: Stephen Richards. Front is a presentation. Against an all-white background, is a large black raven in flight. All-caps, dark red title is set midway on the cover. Text below in a small, black serif font reads "An Osley College Novel." Below that, in a dark red font matching the title is the author's name. The back cover shows more of Richards' design: black and grey, ink-wash drawings of tree trunks against a white background. Superimposed is the book description/blurb: a roughly, dark-red outlined box enclosing the book's description: "Resolute Death offers an intense, immersive tale with masterful plotting. An essential read for those who love an intricately woven mystery that highlights loss, memory, retribution, and found family. When a glamorous music professor is found dead in the carillon tower of Osley College, a small liberal arts college in the Driftless Region of western Wisconsin, Maude Ascham, the new chief of campus police, has her hands full. Her investigation leads to porn-watching students, an angry boyfriend, a betrayed lover, and feuding colleagues. Students, faculty, and staff: all are implicated. When the Dean of Libraries commits a gruesome suicide three weeks later, the investigation becomes more than a matter of murder. Who is blackmailing James North, the bereaved, ex-hobo English professor and celebrated poet? Why would someone destroy the 175-year-old bonsai of the cantankerous college gardener? Was last December’s drowning of a senior music student really an accident? And what of Ariel Ellis, the eccentric, blue-haired barista, who is clearly hiding something behind their theatrical banter; and Esha Larkin, the maps librarian seen weeping on the old library’s roof at dawn? Each appears to hold a vital piece of a dangerous puzzle. There is a killer on campus . . . can they be stopped?"
@jajablonski.bsky.socialSep 29, 2026, 3:39 PM

“College campuses can be kind of funny about their trees.” (AHA)

Osley College, the setting of my #AcademicMystery, RESOLUTE DEATH is no different. Auspicious then that my cover artist, UK artist, Stephen Richards, finds them rather fascinating as well.

#CollegeMystery #CampusCrime #CollegeCrime

An evocative clustering of trees, seen only via their trunks, created using wax resist and black ink in combination with pencil. Text in red below the trees reads "Cover Revear 1 October 2026."
@jajablonski.bsky.socialSep 28, 2026, 11:29 AM

Ravens, cultural symbols of intelligence, creation, and death, are a visual motif in my #AcademicMystery storytelling. The evocative cover art for RESOLUTE DEATH by UK artist Stephen Richards perfectly embodies their grim and occasionally witty presence.

⚡📚 #Ravens #CollegeMystery #CollegeCrime

Left: Black and white ink wash drawing of tree trunks. Right: The black silhouette of a raven in flight on a dark red back ground. Small text below one tree trunk reads "Original Cover Art: Stephen Richards." Larger text along the bottom of image reads "Cover Reveal 1 October 2026."
@jajablonski.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gySep 25, 2026, 6:36 PM

My academic mystery, RESOLUTE DEATH, comes out at the end of October! More deets on 1 October!

Meanwhile, another wee tease of the cover art featuring the original work of UK artist, Stephen Richards.

#AcademicMystery #CollegeMystery #CampusCrime #CollegeCrime

A raven in black silhouette in flight against a dark red background. Text reads: Cover Reveal - 1 October 2026. Note: The odd texture of the red is due to the image having been run through the Glaze app, "an open-source software tool designed to safeguard digital artworks from style mimicry by generative AI models" (from Wikipedia),
@jajablonski.bsky.socialSep 25, 2026, 6:10 PM

My academic mystery, RESOLUTE DEATH, comes out at the end of October! More deets on 1 October!

Meanwhile, another wee tease of the cover art featuring the original work of UK artist, Stephen Richards.

#AcademicMystery #CollegeMystery #CampusCrime #CollegeCrime

A raven in black silhouette in flight against a dark red background. Text reads: Cover Reveal - 1 October 2026. Note: The odd texture of the red is due to the image having been run through the Glaze app, "an open-source software tool designed to safeguard digital artworks from style mimicry by generative AI models" (from Wikipedia),
@jajablonski.bsky.socialSep 24, 2026, 8:27 PM

And so it begins. . . My academic mystery, RESOLUTE DEATH, comes out at the end of October! I'm so excited for the impending cover reveal, which features the striking, original art work of Stephen Richards.

Here's a small view of what's to come later next week.

#AcademicMystery #CollegeMystery

Two squares: the larger dark red one serves as the background of the image. The smaller is of an ink-wash drawing of black and grey tree trunks on white.