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Glitterati
I had the rather swell privilege of getting to read Oliver K. Langmead’s ‘Glitterati’ before it comes out and I really recommend you look out for it. It’s a satire about a caste of super fashionable people in a dystopian future they benefit from but don’t even understand. It’s really imaginative and funny and- surprisingly- […]
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Slightly bad news, chaps: Pennyblade is to be delayed slightly, arriving at a fashionably late 29th of March instead of the 15th. This is due to worldwide shipping issues (Lot of it about, y’know). Apologies, but it’ll only rock your ass the more when it arrives!
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Pennyblade: Too Many Schlongs
Book Signing In Brum!
I went along to Birmingham, UK, the other day- that birthplace of metal and the Venice Of The Midlands- to sign a load of copies of Pennyblade. I was invited by Forbidden Planet, that flagship of comic book stores, to come I and get busy with a pen. The staff were absolute darlings and professionals […]
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That Time My Mum Was In An Italian Exploitation Film
So mum was walking through town in 1963 and an Italian film crew asked her if their actors could throw her and another woman into the town hall fountain. It was almost an acting part. The idea was she was a campaigner against immorality and rock ‘n’ roll etc (she got given a placard to […]
Read more "That Time My Mum Was In An Italian Exploitation Film"Guest Post: Stephen Palmer On The Changing Value Of Christmas.
Merry Christmas everybody! Here’s speculative fiction author Stephen Palmer to offer some thoughts on changing attitudes to the season… There is no Santa Claus, it’s your parents… How old was I when I learned this? My parents moved to the house I spent most of my childhood in when I was six, and in that […]
Read more "Guest Post: Stephen Palmer On The Changing Value Of Christmas."NEWS: Pennyblade Available On NetGalley
If you blog or Insta or YouTube or, er, MySpace about books then you can now request a copy of my fantasy novel ‘Pennyblade’ on NetGalley. You’ll get a free book and I’ll be very gratified. Titan Books has announced the gripping, savaley funny, epic fantasy called Pennyblade by J.L. Worrad, which is set for […]
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