What the hell? Crazy! I thought I’d be in an asylum by this point. But, yes, I’ve been without nicotine for four weeks now. Okay, so I swapped from cigs to vaping a few years back so maybe I’m not the tough guy the title of this post might lead you to surmise but… well, […]
Read more "A Month(ish) Without Nicotine! (And how it’s flibbled my life and writing)"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 […]
Read more "Just Got Sent This Bespoke Box To Keep My Debut Novel In!!!"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 […]
Read more "Creepy movie goodness"Yep, you read that right. The Scalpel goes audio!!! Voiced by the incredibly talented Sara Parlier!!! 11+ hours of total space opera head-f**k. What’s not to love? Here’s a three minute sample: BUY THE WHOLE DARN THING HERE!!!
Read more "The Scalpel Goes Audio!!!"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 […]
Read more "Going Cold Turkey"Hello my beautiful babies! This month the James Worrad juggernaut HITS THE ROAD FOR A TOUR OF THE EMERALD ISLE!!! Well, certainly a few of its hotel lobbies and conference rooms at any rate. Why? Because I’m in Dublin for Worldcon and Belfast for Titancon. Here’s the line-up: WORLDCON: Erm… just hanging out really. Lot’s […]
Read more "Worldcon & Titancon: Where I’ll be and what I’ll be doing in Ireland this month…"“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 […]
Read more "On Writing Characters…"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.
Read more "“The, er, ‘Jedi’ are sorta like samurai…”"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 […]
Read more "I’m Still Here and Stuff Is Happening (plus Workshop 10th anniversary!!!)"
J.L. Worrad 
