Emona Literary Services

Portfolio

Included below are several of my publications from across the Internet:

Realmgard

Art of several Realmgard characters.
Original art by me, under the name J.B. Norman.

The series of middle-grade Fantasy stories I’ve been writing since 2017 under the name J.B. Norman and published via Emona Literary Services.

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“What is a Muppet?”

A stock photo of Kermit the Frog.
Image by Adam Evertsson from Pixabay

Published in Spine Online, the student journal of Algonquin’s Professional Writing program, this deep dive on the origin and nature of the Muppets began life as an assignment on expository writing.

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Screen Rant Autism Article

A thumbnail of a Screen Rant article about positive portrayals of autism in anime.
Image via Screen Rant.

While a Features Writer for Screen Rant, I wrote a deeply meaningful long-form article on the importance of positive representation of autism and neurodiversity.

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Emona Literary on Substack

The Emona Literary Services™ logo.
(c) and TM Emona Literary Services.

My primary author blog and outlet for published fiction.

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100-word Book Reviews: The Book of the New Sun

Severian from the cover of Tor's "Shadow and Claw" compilation.
Shadow and Claw: The First Half of the Book of the New Sun: Tor Essentials.

A specific example of the sort of thing I post on Substack: The first of my short-form book reviews.

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“Sophie’s Folly”

An airport interior. Photo by Aldo Garza. Via Pexels.
Photo by Aldo Garza. Via Pexels.

Flash fiction also originally published via Spine Online, a powerful meditation on the travails of being an elder sibling.

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Bam Smack Pow! Bibliography

A pile of various vintage comic books.
Photo by Erik Mclean on Pexels.com

The news, reviews, and listicles I’ve written for the FanSided network’s comic-centric website Bam Smack Pow!

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Several examples of my Graphic Design work:

A mock-up poster for a miming contest.
An example of my ability to design posters in Canva.
Captain Pikachu from Pokémon Horizons.
A header image for one of my articles for Screen Rant.
The cover of Fryte's Gold.
The cover of one of my Realmgard stories.
A social media post to promote a post about 'The Book of the New Sun', featuring the text "This is the most impenetrable book have never read not written by a German philosopher."
A social media post to promote my 100-word Book Review of The Book of the New Sun.
A birthday card featuring a dolphin and octopus and several fish puns.
A birthday card I made for my niece, based on her fondness of the Narwhal and Jelly book series.

And examples of my Video work:

Highlights of my June 2025 Daily Writing

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