Novels and Web Serials ‧ Games and Gamebooks
Comics and Zines ‧ Shorts and Videos
Books I’ve Edited (samples available upon request!)
Other Writing ‧ Other Visual Art
Novels and Web Serials
Catgirl System
“Taipha, once an alley cat on Earth, is reborn into a fantastical forest with new powers that amaze and terrify her. She can level up, transform into a cat-human hybrid, and her hunts are routinely interrupted by flying boxes. Catgirl System is a playful, breezy LitRPG…updating as we speak!”
Invisible Werewolf Dracula
meets Vampire Mummy Frankenstein
“Globetrotting outlaw Dracula finds a powerful ally in an Egyptian crypt—Frankenstein’s monster himself. Can these fiends thwart the werewolf regime and take back the night?”
Bears Eat Clover
“One girl dances through academy life; one girl stumbles in weak from the woods. Is it just a selfish crush, or true love? And what about the woods outside, where the bears whose bodies fuel their magic refuse to be tamed?”
The Demon Lord is Apathetic
“Lord Nightfall should be crushing villagers with an iron fist. Instead that fist stuffs their face with disgusting pizza rolls. But buried in this shapeshifter’s slovenly hide is a warrior who’s been through hell in every sense…”
KiraKiraTicTic
“A six-chapter illustrated light novel about robots, young love, and trauma. Inspired by sci-fi manga like Alien Nine and Figure 17, it is a rollercoaster of happy fun and total destruction.”
The Maid Got My System
“A fallen prince and his chaotic maid fight for survival with irons and fresh laundry. (Tip: at Level 9 you’ll unlock Ironing Board.)”
Games and Gamebooks
Ads, 3D Models and 2D Artwork
for Gay It Loud
“Dating in the dreamy shopping mall of 1995! Hang out at the food court, have sloppy makeouts in the dressing room, loiter in the arcade, and collect nostalgic toys.”
Ads, 3D Models and Puppet Animation
for Toxic Yuri
“An overworked office lady discovers a sludge girl abandoned in a box in an alleyway and takes her home. A poisonous and fluffy romance begins. Experience the most toxic love story the world has ever seen.”
Artwork for Winter Heat
“Javi lives in Santiago, and Shio lives in Kyoto. They’re best friends over the internet, until one fateful December changes their lives forever. A narrative game about long-distance love that takes place over chats, video calls, and social media apps.”
Be Her Mirror
Novella-length gamebook about advising a princess. Submission to the 2024/2025 Lindenbaum Competition.
Blasé Ace
5-minute kinetic novel with LGBTQ+ characters and themes
“Anime clichés just don’t hit the same when you’re sex-averse. Join NB student Beverly Nicks on a short, funny, positive, be-yourselfy kind of a journey.”
Our Powers Combined!
TTRPG with rules-lite, narrative-driven gameplay
“Whether you’re a teenager with attitude, a team of heroic ponies, or a friendly neighborhood magical warrior, you have been summoned as this world’s only hope!”
Comics and Zines
Fliers for Quinlan Circle
and Yuri Kissaten
Created and printed layouts, artwork, and marketing copy for four-page showcases of games, comics, and fiction handed out at conventions.
Carrot Informer Magazine
“From a gnarly world where rabbits rock comes a magazine that will make YOU feel like a kid brainwashed by a multimedia megafranchise again! A parody of 90s cheese…I mean, carrots.”
StarCrash!! with Jeff
“A pretentious alien and three hapless teenagers fight for peace and justice in the Milky Way. Nothing can stop these ambassadors—except fatigue, incompetence, general moral ambiguity, and lobsters.”
Artwork for Magical Heroines?!
“A story about life, love, growing up, and slowly alienating everyone you know because you were actually pretty rude from the start. I don’t actually know Japanese! Let’s get FUBAR!!”
Comic by Handspike.
Nine Surprising Facts
and a Lie
“Can’t say you know me until you’ve read this.”
Autobiographical comic produced for Quinlan Circle.
Table Manners
“Morgan Harding, Atlanta’s hapless cyber-augmented hero, faces their greatest enemy yet: their sister. At dinner.”
A side story for ATL: Stories from the Retrofuture by B. A. Baker.
Shorts and Videos
le trene co tolmo’i
The audio is whack, but I’m proud of the visuals on my first animated short. Script written in Lojban, a constructed language.
【魔法少女の歌】MEGAMIX: Beatmania+Vocaloid for Magical Heroines?!
Animated playlist with rotating characters, changing cover art, and audio visualizer assembled in Blender.
Books I’ve Edited
As a freelancer, I’ve worked on 100+ books as a line and/or structural editor with companies and independent authors alike. To request services or samples, email me at jmassat [at] email.arizona.edu!
A few works I’ve edited:
LitRPG and Progression Fantasy
- Minute Mage, fantasy timeloop
- Corpo Age, dystopian business-building
- Reborn as a Demonic Tree, martial arts cultivation
Other
- Isaac Unknown, urban fantasy
- Tales of Shattered Glass, fantasy action
- Cygni Corps, military SF trilogy (upcoming titles from Aethon Books)
Other Writing
- “StopTank: A Mecha Mystery in Three Parts,” sci-fi. 2022.
- Shudder and Quake, satirical fantasy novel. University of Arizona honors thesis. 2022.
- “Dawn Henry, the Strongest Creative Writing Student,” sci-fi WLW romance. 2020.
- The Dance Marsanna, satirical sci-fi novella. Emory University honors thesis. 2019.
- “ATLantis” Parts 1 and 2, side story for ATL: Stories from the Retrofuture, 2019.
- “I See my Hand Alight upon my Face,” Alloy Literary Magazine, 2019.
Various short humorous pieces, pastiches, and meditations written for Quinlan Circle 2018-2021, including:
- “Prince Decent,” sci-fi. Companion to The Dance Marsanna. 2021.
- “Varia Walker PREMONITION,” anime spoof. 2020.
- “Varia Walker REVOLUTION,” anime spoof. 2020.
- “The Honey Tree,” fantasy. 2020.
- “An Electric Rain on Lavender,” sci-fi. 2020.
- “xekri djedi DAY OF THE BLOB,” anime spoof. 2020.
- “We Tore That Quilt,” classic sci-fi pastiche. 2020.
- “The Fifty Names of Scooby-Doo,” creepypasata fanwork. 2018.
Other Visual Art
- The Gay Gatsby cover art, 2021.
- Character designs for ATL: Stories from the Retrofuture, 2018-2021.
- Moonglasses Magazine Issue Two cover art, 2016.