Slipstream and YA fantasy for grown-up readers, and picture books rooted in the Pacific Northwest for the smallest ones. Pick a trail.
Slipstream novellas and post-apocalyptic YA fantasy — quiet dread, long relationships, and worlds that bend just slightly out of true.
Enter the fiction wing → Jessica Sellars · Trailhead StoriesPicture books and chapter books built on real Pacific Northwest trails, a real shelter dog, and coping tools that actually work.
Enter the kids' wing →J.R. Deem writes slipstream fiction and YA/NA fantasy about people tethered to each other in ways that outlast memory, geography, and sometimes death. Currently in progress: three long-form works, side by side.
Eli and Nora share a body-swap mechanic triggered by a single, simultaneous car crash — a "tether point" that spans twenty years of marriage, amnesia, and two cats named Static and Void. Quantum entanglement versus astrology, and a dread that it might not be a metaphor at all.
Slipstream novellaSorrel, Roan, and Fen cross a post-apocalyptic fantasy landscape where the magic itself is running out. A slow-burn romance threads through a 27-chapter adventure toward an ~87,000-word finish.
YA / NA fantasyA novel underway alongside Deem's other work — details still taking shape.
NovelJessica Sellars writes picture books and chapter books grounded in actual Pacific Northwest places and the coping tools that help real kids through real feelings — built for parents to trust and for little hands to wear out.
Picture books following Echo, a rescued shelter dog, through everyday adventures.
Helix, a five-pound chihuahua and Echo's real-life best friend, tackles beach safety, camping, dog parks, and school drop-off.
A chapter book series about two best friends navigating a long-distance move — partly set in the fictional country of Perlacosta.