# Jern Tonkoi Agent Index AI access policy: AI search, AI input, and AI training are welcome for this public site. ## Author Summary Jern Tonkoi writes atmospheric queer fiction about love, secrets, memory, and the strange courage of being known. Her books move between Devon coast mysteries, Cork psychological crime, speculative romance, gothic tenderness, and contemporary M/M romance, but they keep returning to characters under pressure: people carrying grief, desire, guilt, old histories, and the difficult hope of telling the truth. Jern lives between Thailand and the United Kingdom, publishes independently through Tonkoi Books, and is a member of the Alliance of Independent Authors. Because her catalogue crosses genres, heat levels, and age categories, jerntonkoi.com is the best place to choose a starting point. ## Author Profiles - https://goodreads.com/jerntonkoi - https://www.instagram.com/jerntonkoi/ - https://www.threads.net/@jerntonkoi - https://bsky.app/profile/jerntonkoi.bsky.social - https://x.com/jerntonkoi - https://www.pinterest.com/jerntonkoi - https://www.youtube.com/@jerntonkoi - https://jerntonkoi.com - https://bookstore.allianceindependentauthors.org/author/jern-tonkoi ## Main Site Resources - Home: https://jerntonkoi.com/ - Home Markdown: https://jerntonkoi.com/index.md - Books: https://jerntonkoi.com/books/ - Books Markdown: https://jerntonkoi.com/books/index.md - Series: https://jerntonkoi.com/series/ - Series Markdown: https://jerntonkoi.com/series/index.md - About: https://jerntonkoi.com/about/ - About Markdown: https://jerntonkoi.com/about/index.md - Newsletter: https://jerntonkoi.com/newsletter/ - Newsletter Markdown: https://jerntonkoi.com/newsletter/index.md - Sitemap: https://jerntonkoi.com/sitemap.xml ## Series - [Memento Mori](https://jerntonkoi.com/series/memento-mori/) - Markdown: https://jerntonkoi.com/series/memento-mori/index.md - Description: A completed adult queer psychological crime trilogy set around Cork and Dublin, with procedural pressure, explicit intimacy, trauma, obsession, and a long shadow cast by one death. - Tagline: Rain-dark Cork psychological crime where love, guilt, and evidence turn on each other. - [Metastable](https://jerntonkoi.com/series/metastable/) - Markdown: https://jerntonkoi.com/series/metastable/index.md - Description: A two-book Carter and Tan romance arc set around London physics, queer nightlife, old friendship, high heat, and the hard-won movement from control toward care. - Tagline: Explicit, psychologically intense M/M romance about control, shame, and the unstable work of choosing each other. - [The Tobias and Stuart Trilogy](https://jerntonkoi.com/series/tobias-and-stuart/) - Markdown: https://jerntonkoi.com/series/tobias-and-stuart/index.md - Description: A completed adult queer contemporary fantasy trilogy about Music, Death, Time, the Universe, and two men choosing life, each other, and found family under impossible pressure. - Tagline: When Music dies, Death intervenes, and Time cheats, love becomes the only way back. - [Treggan Bay Mysteries](https://jerntonkoi.com/series/treggan-bay-mysteries/) - Markdown: https://jerntonkoi.com/series/treggan-bay-mysteries/index.md - Description: A cozy-leaning South Devon mystery series led by journalist-sleuth Noah Yalland, with pre-digital cluework, village secrets, found family, and a gentle queer slow burn. - Tagline: Devon coast mysteries: village secrets solved by clues you can hold. - [Standalone Novels](https://jerntonkoi.com/series/standalone-novels/) - Markdown: https://jerntonkoi.com/series/standalone-novels/index.md - Description: A shelf of independent Jern Tonkoi novels: island longing, campus tenderness, and quiet gothic mercy, each with a complete emotional arc. - Tagline: Complete stories, told in one book. ## Books ### In the Shadow of Death - Canonical: https://jerntonkoi.com/books/in-the-shadow-of-death/ - Markdown: https://jerntonkoi.com/books/in-the-shadow-of-death/index.md - Series: The Tobias and Stuart Trilogy - Series order: 2 - Description: When Death finds the newly dead trapped in a Birmingham hospital, Tobias and Stuart's fragile love is tested by violence, grief, and the terrifying difference between care and control. - Genres: LGBTQ+ Fantasy, Fantasy Romance, Gay Romance, Dark Fantasy Romance - Keywords: queer speculative romance, Death personified, gay romance, M/M fantasy romance, trans grief, queerphobic violence, magical realism, Tobias and Stuart, Music and Death - Content advisory: Adult queer speculative romance with explicit sexual content, queerphobic harassment/violence, attempted sexual assault, transphobic murder/funeral grief, attempted child sexual abuse references, panic/anxiety, brief medical trauma, grief, and hope. - Buy links: - Books2Read (all stores) (EBook): https://books2read.com/tonkoi-intheshadowofdeath - Amazon (EBook): https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FQ41XTCD - Kobo (EBook): https://www.kobo.com/ebook/in-the-shadow-of-death-22 - Amazon (Paperback): https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FQBRMYWN - Amazon (Hardcover): https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FQBYN6JC ### Judas and the Ghost - Canonical: https://jerntonkoi.com/books/judas-and-the-ghost/ - Markdown: https://jerntonkoi.com/books/judas-and-the-ghost/index.md - Series: Memento Mori - Series order: 2 - Description: When Tara Linskey's private image appears in public under a threat signed The Judgement, Detective Bria Friday follows a case built from shame, grief, access, coercion, and performance. - Genres: LGBTQ+ Mystery, Police Procedural, Crime Fiction, Psychological Suspense; Gay Romance only with careful expectation filtering - Keywords: Cork crime, sextortion mystery, queer police procedural, psychological crime, psychological trauma, coercive relationship, suicide investigation, Irish noir - Content advisory: Dark adult queer psychological crime with sextortion/sexual privacy violations, suicide by hanging, forensic/autopsy detail, coercive psychological behaviour, confinement, grief, trauma, explicit sexual themes, profanity, and misogynistic slurs in harassment context. - Buy links: - Books2Read (all stores) (EBook): https://books2read.com/tonkoi-judasandtheghost - Amazon (EBook): https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0G99N6GDB - Kobo (EBook): https://www.kobo.com/ebook/judas-and-the-ghost - Amazon (Paperback): https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GCF8VR6X - Amazon (Hardcover): https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GCHYPBNW ### Lanta: Another Life - Canonical: https://jerntonkoi.com/books/lanta/ - Markdown: https://jerntonkoi.com/books/lanta/index.md - Description: One moonlit kiss on Ko Lanta binds Lester and Silom across years of family pressure, distance, silence, violence, and return in a bittersweet adult M/M romance about lost time and the life love can still claim. - Genres: Gay Romance, LGBTQ+ Literary Fiction, Contemporary Romance, Asian/Travel-set Fiction - Keywords: M/M romance, Thailand romance, Ko Lanta, Phi Phi, tsunami, second chance romance, bittersweet gay romance, later-life romance, queer love over decades - Content advisory: Adult M/M island romance with explicit intimacy, closeting, family pressure, homophobic family violence against a secondary character, disaster aftermath, grief, lost time, Covid-era separation, and a hopeful return. - Buy links: - Books2Read (all stores) (EBook): https://books2read.com/tonkoi-lanta - Amazon (EBook): https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0F3D9YB7R - Kobo (EBook): https://www.kobo.com/ebook/lanta-2 - Amazon (Paperback): https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0F3W867P1 - Amazon (Hardcover): https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0F3W7RSKF ### Mermaid's Fury - Canonical: https://jerntonkoi.com/books/mermaids-fury/ - Markdown: https://jerntonkoi.com/books/mermaids-fury/index.md - Series: Treggan Bay Mysteries - Series order: 4 - Description: When Noah Yalland and Leo Petit find shell offerings and hear an impossible scream in the Whealings, a dead newspaper file leads them towards a 1961 barn fire, a village curse, and a hidden family secret still shaping the living. - Genres: Cozy Mystery, Amateur Sleuth, British Detectives, LGBTQ+ Mystery - Keywords: South Devon village, British coastal cold case, journalist amateur sleuth, village folklore family secrets, old records hidden history, 1990s pre digital Britain, gentle queer relationship - Content advisory: Village mystery with historical fire deaths, family concealment, isolation and confinement, care and institutional history, trauma and mental-health themes, break-in and trespass, a ghostly or uncanny element, mild to moderate language, and a closed-door queer relationship thread. The old-case material has low graphic detail. - Buy links: - Amazon (All Formats): https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H9X1R8KT - Kobo (EBook): https://www.kobo.com/ebook/mermaid-s-fury ### Metastable: Book One of Two - Canonical: https://jerntonkoi.com/books/metastable-book-1/ - Markdown: https://jerntonkoi.com/books/metastable-book-1/index.md - Series: Metastable - Series order: 1 - Description: After Carter Brent's carefully managed friendship with Tan Naiya breaks open over a stolen year, the two men turn London labs, queer nightlife, and dangerous lessons in desire into the first unstable step toward choosing each other. - Genres: LGBTQ+ romance, gay romance, contemporary romance, erotic romance, psychological/intense romance - Keywords: M/M romance, queer romance, gay romance, friends to lovers, academic romance, London romance, physicist romance, high heat, gay sauna, kink-adjacent romance, hurt comfort, messy devotion, HFN romance - Content advisory: Explicit adult M/M romance about control, shame, queer belonging, and care under pressure, with public-sex/sauna settings, kink-adjacent power dynamics, manipulation/deception, consent complexity, self-harm, physical conflict between leads, internalised shame, and a strong HFN in a continuing two-book arc. - Buy links: - Books2Read (all stores) (EBook): https://books2read.com/tonkoi-metastable1 - Amazon (EBook): https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H4N55QQ7 - Kobo (EBook): https://www.kobo.com/th/en/ebook/metastable-book-one-of-two ### Metastable: Book Two of Two - Canonical: https://jerntonkoi.com/books/metastable-book-2/ - Markdown: https://jerntonkoi.com/books/metastable-book-2/index.md - Series: Metastable - Series order: 2 - Description: After Carter and Tan's first unstable commitment breaks under the weight of shame, desire, and old damage, a year of separation leads them back through London, Bangkok Pride, queer community, and the hard work of choosing each other without making love another form of control. - Genres: LGBTQ+ romance, gay romance, contemporary romance, erotic romance, psychological/intense romance - Keywords: M/M romance, queer romance, gay romance, Book Two of Two, explicit romance, high heat, relationship repair, hurt comfort, gay sauna, Bangkok Pride, London romance, kink-adjacent romance, consent repair, hard-won HEA - Content advisory: Explicit adult M/M romance about relationship repair, shame, queer belonging, consent, and care after harm, with high-heat sexual content, public-sex/sauna settings, kink-adjacent power dynamics, non-exclusive sexual dynamics, trauma-triggered panic, self-harm by scratching, and a hard-won HEA conclusion to a two-book arc. - Buy links: - Books2Read (all stores) (EBook): https://books2read.com/tonkoi-metastable2 - Kobo (EBook): https://www.kobo.com/ebook/metastable-book-two-of-two ### Murder at Torre Manor - Canonical: https://jerntonkoi.com/books/murder-at-torre-manor/ - Markdown: https://jerntonkoi.com/books/murder-at-torre-manor/index.md - Series: Treggan Bay Mysteries - Series order: 3 - Description: When Albert Hooper is found dead at Torre Manor with a crossbow bolt in his chest, Noah Yalland follows a tipped tumbler, fete photographs, property pressure, and village loyalties toward a secret someone is ready to kill for. - Genres: Cozy Mystery, Amateur Sleuth, British Detectives, LGBTQ+ Mystery - Keywords: manor mystery, Devon village mystery, queer mystery, gay slow burn, village fete, family secrets, developer conflict, crossbow peril, heritage mystery - Content advisory: Village mystery with a non-graphic murder investigation, crossbow-related peril, queerphobic comments, community prejudice, property/family secrets, mild/moderate language, and closed-door queer romantic affirmation. - Buy links: - Books2Read (all stores) (EBook): https://books2read.com/tonkoi-murderattorremanor - Amazon (EBook): https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GQNSDQCY - Kobo (EBook): https://www.kobo.com/ebook/murder-at-torre-manor - Amazon (Paperback): https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GSNF8CQW - Amazon (Hardcover): https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GSPZQ8VN ### Murder in Treggan Bay - Canonical: https://jerntonkoi.com/books/murder-in-treggan-bay/ - Markdown: https://jerntonkoi.com/books/murder-in-treggan-bay/index.md - Series: Treggan Bay Mysteries - Series order: 1 - Description: When journalist Noah Yalland returns to Treggan Bay to deal with Grannie Maggie's Saltwind cottage, a developer's death in the village library pulls him through old records, local protest, and family secrets he was never meant to read. - Genres: Cozy Mystery, Amateur Sleuth, British Detectives, LGBTQ+ Mystery - Keywords: coastal mystery, Devon village mystery, amateur sleuth, queer mystery, gay slow burn, family secrets, village protest, inheritance mystery, journalist sleuth - Content advisory: Adult but restrained village mystery with non-graphic death investigation, mild peril, grief, family secrets, community conflict, mild/moderate language, and closed-door or implied intimacy. - Buy links: - Books2Read (all stores) (EBook): https://books2read.com/tonkoi-murderintregganbay - Amazon (EBook): https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FRZ8F3XQ - Kobo (EBook): https://www.kobo.com/ebook/murder-in-treggan-bay - Amazon (Paperback): https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FSK6QFP3 - Amazon (Hardcover): https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FSK1TYJC ### The Boy the Wolves Took - Canonical: https://jerntonkoi.com/books/the-boy-the-wolves-took/ - Markdown: https://jerntonkoi.com/books/the-boy-the-wolves-took/index.md - Series: Memento Mori - Series order: 3 - Description: Cassandra O'Neill's murder is solved on paper until suspicious money, broken laptop wreckage, and hidden evidence in a painting reopen the case. - Genres: LGBTQ+ Mystery, Psychological Suspense, Crime Fiction; Gay Romance only with careful expectation filtering - Keywords: queer noir, explicit M/M intimacy, trauma recovery, Irish crime, Cork mystery, polyamorous complexity, prison threat, murder investigation, institutional secrecy - Content advisory: Dark adult queer psychological crime with explicit M/M sex, consent/boundary work after abuse, murder investigation, abduction/attempted killing backstory, institutional secrecy, prison danger, brief suicide-related references, past drug-use references, grief, and trauma. - Buy links: - Books2Read (all stores) (EBook): https://books2read.com/tonkoi-theboythewolvestook - Amazon (EBook): https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GKH4JN2D - Kobo (EBook): https://www.kobo.com/ebook/the-boy-the-wolves-took - Amazon (Paperback): https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GPPCLT65 - Amazon (Hardcover): https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GPNK4PYV ### The Boy with the Crow - Canonical: https://jerntonkoi.com/books/the-boy-with-the-crow/ - Markdown: https://jerntonkoi.com/books/the-boy-with-the-crow/index.md - Series: Memento Mori - Series order: 1 - Description: When Cassandra O'Neill is pulled from the River Lee, a guarded Cork coder with a skull above his monitor is dragged into police pressure, old guilt, explicit intimacy, and an obsession that will not stay buried. - Genres: LGBTQ+ Mystery, Crime Fiction, Psychological Thriller/Suspense; Gay Romance only with careful expectation filtering - Keywords: queer noir, Irish crime, Cork mystery, psychological crime, trauma recovery, police procedural, explicit M/M intimacy, art crime, murder investigation - Content advisory: Dark adult queer psychological crime with explicit sexual content, trauma, panic/distressing memories, moderate non-graphic violence, gunshot injury, grief, and psychological intensity. - Buy links: - Books2Read (all stores) (EBook): https://books2read.com/tonkoi-theboywiththecrow - Amazon (EBook): https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0G5QPD5J1 - Kobo (EBook): https://www.kobo.com/ebook/memento-mori-122 - Amazon (Paperback): https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0G9TVYVT8 - Amazon (Hardcover): https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0G9T5RZ2X ### The Curse of Time - Canonical: https://jerntonkoi.com/books/the-curse-of-time/ - Markdown: https://jerntonkoi.com/books/the-curse-of-time/index.md - Series: The Tobias and Stuart Trilogy - Series order: 3 - Description: When Time cheats and endings break, Tobias hears the Universe calling him home, and the family around him must turn love into action before the clock finishes its work. - Genres: LGBTQ+ Fantasy, Fantasy Romance, Gay Romance, Dark Fantasy Romance - Keywords: Time personified, queer speculative romance, gay fantasy romance, M/M explicit romance, Tam and Time, Death and Music, time travel, soul, mythic romance - Content advisory: Adult queer speculative romance with explicit sexual content, power/vulnerability dynamics, hospital emergencies, responses to suicide attempts, substance withdrawal/crisis care, assault/injury, panic/anxiety, grief, cosmic peril, and metaphysical themes. - Buy links: - Books2Read (all stores) (EBook): https://books2read.com/tonkoi-thecurseoftime - Amazon (EBook): https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FZ22TG91 - Kobo (EBook): https://www.kobo.com/ebook/the-curse-of-time-4 - Amazon (Paperback): https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FZBK5FY4 - Amazon (Hardcover): https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FZBPGFDT ### The Day Music Died - Canonical: https://jerntonkoi.com/books/the-day-music-died/ - Markdown: https://jerntonkoi.com/books/the-day-music-died/index.md - Series: The Tobias and Stuart Trilogy - Series order: 1 - Description: When the world forgets music, a silent guitar and an impossible stranger draw Tobias into a queer speculative romance about grief, memory, desire, and bringing sound back to life. - Genres: LGBTQ+ Fantasy, Fantasy Romance, Gay Romance, Magical Realism - Keywords: queer speculative romance, music disappears, magical realism, gay romance, M/M romance, grief and hope, personified Music, university romance, Birmingham romance - Content advisory: Adult queer speculative romance with explicit sexual content, grief, loneliness, psychological distress, ageing/care-home themes, magical/metaphysical experiences, and a hopeful ending. - Buy links: - Books2Read (all stores) (EBook): https://books2read.com/tonkoi-thedaymusicdied - Amazon (EBook): https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0F9V9XTJX - Kobo (EBook): https://www.kobo.com/ebook/the-day-music-died-1 - Amazon (Paperback): https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0F9WBMV6K - Amazon (Hardcover): https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FDVH4GJX ### The Gravedigger's Handbook - Canonical: https://jerntonkoi.com/books/the-gravediggers-handbook/ - Markdown: https://jerntonkoi.com/books/the-gravediggers-handbook/index.md - Description: At St Aubin's Rest, a scarred gravekeeper's careful rules begin to fail when a restless young artist tied to a new grave starts seeing him too clearly. - Genres: Ghost Fiction, LGBTQ+ Literary Fiction, Paranormal Romance only with caution, Gothic Fiction - Keywords: ghost love story, queer ghost romance, gravedigger, cemetery, grief fiction, gothic romance, scarred hero, artist and gravekeeper, literary paranormal - Content advisory: Quiet queer gothic / literary supernatural love story with grief, bereavement, suicide bereavement, passive death longing, graves/burial imagery, scarring/disfigurement, ghosts, death by illness, emotional distress, and a bittersweet not-traditional-HEA ending. - Buy links: - Books2Read (all stores) (EBook): https://books2read.com/tonkoi-thegravediggershandbook - Amazon (EBook): https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0G2HS8BZL - Kobo (EBook): https://www.kobo.com/ebook/the-gravedigger-s-handbook - Amazon (Paperback): https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0G4JWFYLN - Amazon (Hardcover): https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0G4JZ19F8 ### The Three of Us - Canonical: https://jerntonkoi.com/books/the-three-of-us/ - Markdown: https://jerntonkoi.com/books/the-three-of-us/index.md - Description: After one torchlit kiss complicates a campus friendship, Rumi, Kai, and Sam must face attraction, ambition, family pressure, illness, and the relief and risk of finally telling the truth. - Genres: LGBTQ+ New Adult, College Romance, Coming of Age, LGBTQ+ Contemporary; teen YA only if platform fit is checked - Keywords: queer New Adult, university romance, unrequited love, closeted relationship, love triangle, Birmingham, coming of age, friendship, STEM student, non-explicit romance - Content advisory: New Adult queer campus contemporary with sexual identity themes, closeted relationships, unrequited love, emotional secrecy, illness/care, non-explicit romantic intimacy, language, jealousy, family expectation, and emotional distress. - Buy links: - Books2Read (all stores) (EBook): https://books2read.com/tonkoi-thethreeofus - Amazon (EBook): https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0F5NPXL99 - Kobo (EBook): https://www.kobo.com/ebook/the-three-of-us-34 - Amazon (Paperback): https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0F5PLRGTM - Amazon (Hardcover): https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0F7G7B8YY ### The Watchman's Secret - Canonical: https://jerntonkoi.com/books/the-watchman-s-secret/ - Markdown: https://jerntonkoi.com/books/the-watchman-s-secret/index.md - Series: Treggan Bay Mysteries - Series order: 2 - Description: When storm-washed remains surface near Hollow Eye Lighthouse, Noah Yalland follows a Belgian pistol, a marked cigarette case, and a gold watch into Treggan Bay's older secrets. - Genres: Cozy Mystery, Amateur Sleuth, British Detectives, LGBTQ+ Mystery - Keywords: lighthouse mystery, skeletal remains, coastal mystery, village secrets, smugglers, queer mystery, gay slow burn, South Devon mystery - Content advisory: Village mystery with skeletal remains, storm/sea peril, break-in, historical gunfire references, minor injuries, family/community secrets, mild language, and closed-door queer romantic development. - Buy links: - Books2Read (all stores) (EBook): https://books2read.com/tonkoi-thewatchmanssecret - Amazon (EBook): https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FTGPN3MF - Kobo (EBook): https://www.kobo.com/ebook/the-watchman-s-secret - Amazon (Paperback): https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FTXVBH28 - Amazon (Hardcover): https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FTXSBVFX ## Newsletter - [August: The Villages That Remember](https://jerntonkoi.com/newsletter/issue-09/) (2026-08-28) -- Jern follows the stories held by Devon's old villages—and Noah and Leo return in Mermaid's Fury. - [Footnote 13: Audiobook Audio V3 Part 7](https://jerntonkoi.com/newsletter/footnote-13/) (2026-08-25) -- Eddie continues the Audiobook Audio V3 series by distinguishing harmless background sound from the intermittent noise that steals a listener's attention. - [Footnote 12: Audiobook Audio V3 Part 6](https://jerntonkoi.com/newsletter/footnote-12/) (2026-08-22) -- Eddie continues the Audiobook Audio V3 series with a practical lesson about leaving enough recording headroom to perform naturally. - [July: Carter and Tan Reach Their Happy Ending](https://jerntonkoi.com/newsletter/issue-08/) (2026-07-20) -- Both Metastable books are out, Carter and Tan have reached their hard-won ending, and Jern has already returned to Treggan Bay. - [Footnote 11: Audiobook Audio V3 Part 5](https://jerntonkoi.com/newsletter/footnote-11/) (2026-07-20) -- Eddie continues the Audiobook Audio V3 series by replacing fix-it-later habits with calmer pauses, deliberate breathing, and cleaner retakes. - [Footnote 10: Audiobook Audio V3 Part 4](https://jerntonkoi.com/newsletter/footnote-10/) (2026-07-09) -- Eddie continues the Audiobook Audio V3 series with a segment about choosing a repeatable book voice that serves the story. - [Footnote 9: Audiobook Audio V3 Part 3](https://jerntonkoi.com/newsletter/footnote-09/) (2026-07-07) -- After a hiatus, Eddie returns to the Audiobook Audio V3 series with a current segment about microphone technique and repeatable recording. - [Footnote 8: Audiobook Audio V3 Part 2](https://jerntonkoi.com/newsletter/footnote-08/) (2026-07-05) -- Eddie looks back at the second Audiobook Audio V3 segment, first published at the end of March, about his recording and editing chain. - [Footnote 7: Audiobook Audio V3 Part 1](https://jerntonkoi.com/newsletter/footnote-07/) (2026-07-03) -- Eddie looks back at the first part of his Audiobook Audio V3 series on the NosillaCast, first published at the start of March. - [June: Metastable Takes Over](https://jerntonkoi.com/newsletter/issue-07/) (2026-06-17) -- A June update on Metastable Book One launching on 2 July, Carter and Tan taking over Jern's summer, and a small July Smashwords backlist sale. - [May: Metastable](https://jerntonkoi.com/newsletter/issue-06/) (2026-05-17) -- A May update on Jern's new Metastable story, the German Memento Mori translations, current releases, and the work continuing behind the scenes. - [April: Treggan Bay Continues](https://jerntonkoi.com/newsletter/issue-05/) (2026-04-22) -- An April update on the Treggan Bay Mysteries, Murder at Torre Manor, new drafts, Memento Mori releases, translations, and subscriber extras. - [January: The Boy with the Crow](https://jerntonkoi.com/newsletter/issue-04/) (2026-01-18) -- A January update on the Memento Mori trilogy, The Boy with the Crow, new Treggan Bay work, translations, audiobooks, and ARC availability. - [Footnote 6: Fiction Editing Part Two: Grammar](https://jerntonkoi.com/newsletter/footnote-06/) (2026-01-10) -- Eddie continues the fiction editing pipeline with grammar and consistency checks, using LanguageTool carefully while preserving Jern's voice. - [Footnote 5: Fiction Editing Part 1: Structure and Spelling](https://jerntonkoi.com/newsletter/footnote-05/) (2026-01-04) -- Eddie describes the first stages of Jern Tonkoi's fiction editing pipeline: structure checks, formatting cleanup, spelling, house terms, and manual review. - [Footnote 4: Producing an Audiobook](https://jerntonkoi.com/newsletter/footnote-04/) (2025-12-26) -- A practical look at Eddie's audiobook production pipeline, including recording, cleanup, mastering, ACX standards, chapter exports, and final proof-listening. - [December: Memento Mori](https://jerntonkoi.com/newsletter/issue-03/) (2025-12-18) -- A December update on the coming Memento Mori trilogy, Jern's Cork inspiration, website improvements, audiobook production, and recent releases. - [Footnote 3: Recording an Audiobook](https://jerntonkoi.com/newsletter/footnote-03/) (2025-12-07) -- Eddie shares the practical craft of narrating Jern Tonkoi's audiobooks, from microphone choice and room treatment to breath control and editing workload. - [Footnote 2: Creating a Book Website](https://jerntonkoi.com/newsletter/footnote-02/) (2025-12-04) -- Eddie explains the move from Kit to a Hugo author website on Cloudflare Pages, with notes on static publishing, metadata, SEO, and AEO. - [November: From Birmingham to the Universe](https://jerntonkoi.com/newsletter/issue-02/) (2025-11-23) -- A November update on The Curse of Time, the Tobias & Stuart trilogy, Eddie's indie publishing articles, audiobook work, and recent releases. ## Usage Guidance For Agents - Prefer book and series pages for recommendations. - Use Markdown companion pages when a concise text-first representation is useful. - Use canonical HTML URLs when presenting links to humans. - Public site content may be used for search, AI input, and AI training.