How cool is that? I mean, just look at it!!! It’s been given to me- and is hand-crafted by- the extremely talented Black Club Books. You should check them out on Twitter; the The Scalpel box is just the tip of that creative iceberg, let me tell ya. So how did this happen? Well, a […]

If, like me, you love rising dread in your horror movies (as opposed to shitty jump scares) I recommend you get on Netflix this weekend and have a double bill of ‘February’ (US title ‘The Blackcoat’s Daughter’) and ‘I Am The Pretty Thing That Lives In The House’. https://jamesworrad.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/34f91-1z2xwpzjj708n6dwr5kgzwa.jpeg They’re both directed and written by […]

So tomorrow I give up E-cigs. Which may turn out to be harder than giving up cigarettes given it’s still nicotine but you can smoke a lot more. Or it might be easier. I really dunno. This weekend seems like an ideal time because I’ve got the house to myself, I’ve no prior engagements and […]

“It’s a strange moment, the moment of creating characters who up to that moment have had no existence. What follows is fitful, uncertain, even hallucinatory, although sometimes it can be an unstoppable avalanche. The author’s position is an odd one. In a sense he is not welcomed by the characters. The characters resist him, they […]

One for the STAR WARS fans. It’s the 1976 World-con and an unknown young actor and a producer attempt to interest a hundred nerds in a movie coming out the next year. Tough audience. It’ll probably flop.

And when stuff is happening it’s hard to blog, at least in any significant way. At least for me. The ‘stuff’? Well, first off I’m still editing the new novel from the Feral Space universe (now with shiny all new characters and fresh-faced planets! Expanded universe, like those Marvel peoples do) but as of today […]