{"id":51940,"date":"2025-03-18T10:35:35","date_gmt":"2025-03-18T14:35:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fass\/?p=51940"},"modified":"2025-03-18T10:37:28","modified_gmt":"2025-03-18T14:37:28","slug":"carleton-english-grad-matthew-james-jones-launches-first-novel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fass\/2025\/carleton-english-grad-matthew-james-jones-launches-first-novel\/","title":{"rendered":"Carleton English Grad Matthew James Jones Launches First Novel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n Carleton English Grad Matthew James Jones Launches First Novel\n <\/h1>\n \n \n \n\n

Predators, Reapers, and Deadlier Creatures<\/em> tracks Jones, a drone operator stationed in Kandahar, Afghanistan, 2010. As he monitors Sahar, a teenager and suspected terrorist, Jones commits the ultimate crime: he cares.<\/p>\n\n\n <\/header>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n

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Predators, Reapers and Deadlier Creatures book cover.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Matthew James Jones<\/a> is a poet, novelist, storyteller and veteran whose novel Predators, Reapers and Deadlier Creatures <\/em>is available from Double Dagger Press. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today, Matt writes and teaches in Paris: leadership at the \u00c9cole Militaire <\/em>and creative writing at SciencesPo. His many published works interrogate themes of dehumanization, poetics, monsters, masculinity, cross-cultural exchange, and healing. He also co-hosts the by-donation Write Time workshop, and organizes fitness enthusiasts who use trees as barbells: the Log Club. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Follow his work and receive a free wordgift<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

About the Novel<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Predators, Reapers, and Deadlier Creatures<\/em> tracks Jones, a drone operator stationed in Kandahar, Afghanistan, 2010. As he monitors Sahar, a teenager and suspected terrorist, Jones commits the ultimate crime: he cares.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jones\u2019s supervisor is similarly stained, a fierce soldier who champions Afghan women. By day, Jones and the Major track Taliban down the cratered highways. By night, they wish their love had never hurt so many.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Beneath the base, Jones befriends Noah who, despite his cruel fangs and horrifying strength, is the only gentle creature in the entire desert. As Jones contends with a brutal predator stalking soldiers, Noah\u2019s bids for freedom grow desperate, and the fighting season renews with a fresh crop of Taliban.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Kandahar, there\u2019s a monster in every window. And there\u2019s also one in every mirror. As the war grinds him to ever-finer particles, Jones grapples with the toll\u2014madness, craters, grief.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pre-order Matt’s book on Kindle here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Matthew James Jones is a poet, novelist, storyteller and veteran whose novel Predators, Reapers and Deadlier Creatures is available from Double Dagger Press. Today, Matt writes and teaches in Paris: leadership at the \u00c9cole Militaire and creative writing at SciencesPo. His many published works interrogate themes of dehumanization, poetics, monsters, masculinity, cross-cultural exchange, and healing. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":134,"featured_media":43640,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[167,121,26,90,1,27],"tags":[247,166,302,267,170],"class_list":["post-51940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni","category-alumni-news","category-english","category-fass-news","category-general","category-news","tag-alumni","tag-book-launch","tag-carleton-english","tag-english","tag-fass-alumni"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/134"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51940"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51942,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51940\/revisions\/51942"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}