This is where I share stories before they have finished becoming what they are meant to be. My work in Spiritual Realism explores the uneasy place where faith, the unseen, and ordinary human lives meet, and readers of any age can help these stories grow.
What you’ll find here
Beta Editions are works still in development and may be rough in places. Early Editions are more polished and will usually include, or soon be followed by, a print-on-demand edition. Anyone may purchase Beta Editions, Early Editions, illustrations, and special material. Every work here may still change.
Sharing your thoughts
If you purchased or received a donated copy of a work, I welcome your thoughts, questions, and critiques of it, whether or not you are a Support Team member. You do not need to know anything about editing, publishing, or literary criticism. Tell me where you became interested, confused, surprised, amused, moved, or bored, and what worked for you and what did not. Those reactions show me what is reaching readers and where the work still needs to grow, and they help carry these stories toward publication. Send feedback by WhatsApp or email.
The Beta Reader and Early Edition Support Team
If these stories speak to you, I invite you to join. Members receive free updates of works they have purchased as PDFs at their email of record, even if they originally bought a print edition. You can join at any time.
Not a member? You can still request an update to something you purchased for the same price you originally paid. Send your name, email address, purchase date, and amount paid.
Read slowly. Let the stories linger. Tell me what stayed with you.
Please be patient with requests. I run the shop on my own, in the hours when I am not writing.


J. P. San, also known as Jimy, is an American novelist whose stories blend suspense, drama, and Spiritual Realism. Writers such as Tolkien, Lewis, Márquez, Morrison, Rushdie, and Okri helped pioneer forms of Fantasy Realism: mythic, religious, magical, literary, and animist. San brings Spiritual Realism to that tradition, treating the spiritual as a natural part of authentic reality and exploring its influence on human lives, choices, and events. He lives with his family in Maryland.