This week I had the pleasure of attending an online launch party for the anthology Uncharted Constellations, an anthology of stories, thoughts and poems about the space race. It was hosted by the publishers, Space Cat Press, and I got to have a natter with them and three other authors. Check it out! “In this […]
Read more "Uncharted Chat!!!"What with the Hugo Awards this weekend there’s been a lot of- very justified- talk about Astounding editor John W Campbell’s horrendous politics and views on ethnic minorities. The man was dreadful and people have been saying this for decades. But another facet of the man is often overlooked: he was a complete tool. A […]
Read more "John W Campbell: Encounter With A Batshit Freak"A few years ago I wrote a post on my old blog about the value of drawing your characters before writing your novel (and then another post where I broke out the pencil crayons). In short, it’s a process that get’s me to empathise with the characters and slip into their world, at least a […]
Read more "Feral Space Character Sketches"Only once has an SF story captivated me so much that I went on eBay and bought the magazine it originally appeared in. What surprised me (and perhaps shouldn’t have) is the illustrator’s inability to visualise such a strange and unique future. Heck, the illustrations are old-fashioned even for 1966: C’mell, a woman fighting for […]
Read more "My Beloved Ballad Of Lost C’Mell First Imprint"Mike Glyer’s File 770, mayhap the finest news organ in online SF fandom, run a semi-regular feature where people send in pictures of their cats asleep upon speculative fiction novels. Looks like The Scalpel made the grade! See below: http://file770.com/cats-sleep-on-sff-james-worrad/
Read more "Feline-related Fame Over At File 770"I’ve been a little quiet on here of late and I hope the reasons are now manifest: I’ve been acquiring representation (with all the manuscript tweaking that necessitates). Max is an excellent agent who came highly recommended by someone in genre publishing and its easy to see why. Max has a profound grasp on the […]
Read more "So I Got An Agent!"
J.L. Worrad 