Jamieson Wolf
Number-one bestselling author
Coming Soon! Minotaur!
Hey Everyone,
Check this out! I have a cover for Minotaur coming this year from Re! Isn’t it gorgeous? Better yet, the book is going to be available for preorder on October 13th, 2025, and will go live for purchase around November 3rd, 2025!
I know that I’ve been mum on the novel for the most part, but here’s the synopsis of Minotaur.
Roanne lives in the darkness.
She has spent seventeen years in the labyrinth, never knowing the outside world. Her mother Sophie is overprotective because being disabled, Roanne can’t run as fast as everyone else, and escape means staying alive. They already lost one member of their family.
In the labyrinth, people exist without words or noise, trying not to provoke the beast down from the mountains. They communicate their fears and uncertainty in sign and whisper—it’s all any of them have ever known. Silence means life, and the dark is a good place to keep secrets.
While hiding from the minotaur, Roanne discovers a small green journal that holds another secret that could change her path. She also realizes her mother and the Oracle of the labyrinth have kept secrets of their own. Will Roanne be brave enough to do what she must?
Or will the minotaur be her undoing after all?
I’m so excited for everyone to read this book. It’s been a five-year journey for me and I can’t believe how close we are to the publication day! Woohoo! It’s also my first publication in over a year
Stay tuned for more news!
Minotaur and the Light of the Fish
My novel MINOTAUR is coming out in November from Rebel Satori Press!
It still feels rather unreal. I spent so long writing this novel and it’s been quite the journey. I started and finished MINOTAUR during the first year of the pandemic. I was a social person, and it felt so bizarre to me that we were all to be kept apart for our safety. And yet, at the same time, we were all held together, social media and our phones uniting us all. I would have been lost in the dark had I not had some sort of connection to those I love, a spark of light in the dark.
In 2019, before the pandemic had begun, I had been carrying a sentence with me. It was a line of text, and it had become a mantra of sorts. I would say it out loud.
“We were friendly with the dark.”
The only problem was, I had no idea where the line fit. Over time, I realized that it the voice of a young woman who spoke those words to me; I just didn’t know where she was. When the pandemic began in March of 2020, I could see her more clearly.
I knew that her name was Roanne, and that she had that she was disabled and that she in a labyrinth. I wondered what she was doing there, and I knew that I had to put the words down on the page. I wrote a short story that eventually became the first chapter of MINOTAUR. I knew after writing it that I wanted to explore the world Roanne was in. I can’t describe the amount of comfort I found in the labyrinth. It’s like the shadows kept me safe.
When I started writing MINOTAUR, I knew that the labyrinth would be a sprawling place and that there would be a lot of people living there with Roanne, so I put a call out to friends and family to see if anyone wanted to be a character in the maze. In this way, with people I know and love within the novel, I didn’t feel so alone. Almost all the names of the villagers in the book are people wanted to be with Roanne in the labyrinth.
I did an edit of MINOTAUR before sending it out to different publishers, but received solid no’s from a few of them, nothing from some others. I was in the beginning stages of self publishing the book when I heard from Rebel Satori Press. They wanted the book for their Queer Space line of books and of course I said yes!
It’s so odd to me that the sentence I had in my head in 2019 is now a novel about to be published in 2025. I wanted to do a short story or novella to help promote the novel when it comes out later this year. It has the working title of The Light of the Fish. As I wrote it, I realized that it wouldn’t work as a prequel. I wanted the first time you saw the labyrinth to be a surprise, much as it was to me way back when I started writing it. I’ve saved what I’ve written of The Light of the Fish. I think the events of The Light of the Fish take place somewhere around the beginning of the second book in the series that has already been started.
I’m going to hold on to it for now, I hope you don’t mind. I’m so excited for all of you to read MINOTAUR and meet Roanne. I’ve been on quite the journey to get to this point and so has she. It’s almost time. Are you friendly with the dark?
Now, a joy.
Every time I would have released a yell,
I am instead choosing to release a bark of laughter.
That way,
when before the air would have filled with the sound of anger,
now,
it will be filled with joy.
The Gift in All This – An Update
It’s been a while since I’ve written any kind of update.
I mean, I’ve been writing and painting working and writing, but haven’t really posted a what’s up and what’s going on in some time. There was a lot going on, but I’ve been healing. I’ve come to realize that this last round of chemo hit me in the butt, and I just don’t have the spoons I once did. I’m trying to reengage with life and with the world around me and that includes all of you reading this. Hello!
I’ve really been trying to embrace the idea of rest. I’m not very good at it. Gone are the days where I’m writing one book, in edits for another and promoting a third or doing a whole painting in a matter of hours. I’ve really tried to make rest a priority. I’ve been sick on and off since I finished the third round and I still have a fourth one to look forward to in the future. It’s not lost me that while the chemo has reduced the percentage that my multiple sclerosis is active in my body (currently at 1.09%!), I’ve been sick more lately than ever. I went from never being sick ever to being sick all the time.
Part of me can look at it negatively, and there are some days that I do, but I have to see the gift of it for any of this to have balance. I’m tired all the time now and I have really been trying to find balance. I used to be doing everything in an evening; now I’m having to focus on doing just one thing. And you know what? That’s okay, honest.
I haven’t had anything published in well over a year. I haven’t had anything published since my book of poems Covidly Speaking in 2022 Queen of Swords in 2023. It’s been a while, you know?
Please forgive the shameless plug, it’s been a while since I’ve been at this.
There are a few things to look forward to! My novel Minotaur is going to be published by Rebel Satori Press later this year! I know, right? That’s so amazing and I can’t wait for you all to read Roanne’s story. I wrote it during a time of isolation and wanted to create a world where everyone was together but separate. I had the first line in my head for months before I started writing. By then, the world had taken shape. I can’t wait for you all to read it! More on that as new develops. The edits have been handed back to my publisher, I’ve seen cover templates and I’m looking at a November 2025 release.
I’ve been working on a memoir titled Someone Else’s Life over on my Spirit of the Wolf Tarot site and eventually, after the draft has been gone over, edited and made to look its best, I’m going to publish it. I’m really thrilled with how it’s going. The memoir focuses on a time in my life when I ended up on the streets and found my way off again. I’m over halfway through and it’s odd to think I can see the end now. It seemed insurmountable when I first started. You can find that here: https://spirit-of-the-wolf.com/
I’m going to be attending Can-Con in October of this year which I’m really excited about. I’ve been too sick to go for the past two years, so I’m really looking forward to it this year. I’m hoping to be on a few panels, more news as it comes, but really it will just be a joy to finally be able to attend in person.
I’ve also been planning a short story collection. It will be my first short story collection in many years, and I’ve been gathering all the stories together. There will be over forty stories and novellas. I’ve been struggling with a title and how to order the stories, but that’s still in the works. I’m going to call it What the Moon Had to Say. That should be coming out in 2026.
I think that’s all the news right now. Thank you for reading what I write and for always being so awesome. Sending sparkles to all of you.
The Wisdom of Trees – A Poem
I was diagnosed with relapse and remitting multiple sclerosis twelve years ago today.
I’ve been trying to think of what this means to me. Living with a chronic illness on top of a physical disability has not been an easy road, but it’s one that I’m proud of. I’ve survived so much, and I’ve been able to experience the world in ways I never thought were possible.
Normally, I would sit and write out a blog post about what this means to me and maybe reflect on what I have learned in twelve years. Instead, this poem is what wanted to come out. I hope you enjoy it.
The Wisdom of the Trees
I remember the day my life changed for the second time.
My body had been so familiar to me until the
unseen force from within took
everything.
I remember sitting there in the shadows, waiting for the
crows as the trees whispered. I remember praying
that the doctors would be wrong,
that they had made a mistake.
I remember the doctor, sitting across from me,
his kind face a bright beacon as the shadows
threatened to close in and I desperately
wanted them to.
“You won the multiple sclerosis lottery,” he said kindly,
as if this was supposed to make me feel better.
“Relapse and remitting?” I asked him.
“That means it will go away?”
In the twelve years that I have been on this long path,
there is so much that I have learned about who
I really am and what I’m truly
capable of.
Sometimes, I will look at the forest that I carry
in hopes that the trees will contain some
kind of wisdom as I look at the path
that winds ahead.
I’ve had to lean to grow differently,
my vines reaching for the dark and
the light. Twelve years I’ve carried this
other being inside my bloodstream and while it has
taken everything from me, it has also given me more
than I ever thought possible.
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Jamieson Wolf has written a compelling story about navigating multiple sclerosis and cerebral palsy. His story will touch your heart, make you cry, then laugh, and inspire you. A touching memoir with a bit of magic…and tarot! ~ Theresa Reed, author of The Tarot Coloring Book
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