Follow this link to see me read the start of a chapter of Pennyblade! I had the enormous pleasure of getting to read before a fairly sizeable audience at BristolCon. Bristolcon is a lively and very enjoyable one day event, surprisingly held in Bristol, UK. If you stick around after I read from Pennyblade (or […]
Read more "Pennyblade: A Reading At BristolCon plus the weirdest reviews I’ve had."Rounding my visit to Matt’s off with an old school game of Heroquest. It’s… not quite as good as you remember it. But it improved with a bottle of wine. Something I didn’t have when I played it at ten years old. The wine, I suppose, replaces the childhood glee.
Read more "Heroquest!"Those lovely @ForbiddenPlanet people are selling my upcoming dark fantasy novel, The Keep Within, for £5.99 on pre-order! What a bloomin’ bargain! SEE HERE.
Read more "UK Readers: New Novel, Pre-Order for £5.99!"In the endless search for elegance some paragraphs, pages, and even chapters, are cut from a draft. Never was this more true than my current draft of The Keep Within. Here’s a bit that, tearfully, got the chop. I present it here instead. It gives a flavour of the TKW. “Larksdale reached his chamber and […]
Read more "King Parewick’s Folly"NEW NOVEL!!! SPRING ‘23!!! Set hundreds of years after the events of Pennyblade, a theatre manager/bastard brother of the king deals with rumours of a very real folktale murderer and a building whose very existence corrupts the minds of those who see or hear about it. Set in the world of Pennyblade, Becken Keep is […]
Read more "NEW FANTASY NOVEL, ‘THE KEEP WITHIN’, Spring ‘23 from Titan Books!"The launch of Pennyblade went very well, thanks for asking. Nice turn out and all the wine drunk. Here’s a clip of me reading… Excerpt from the fabulous Pennyblade by @JLWORRAD at it’s @TitanBooks launch @reclamation2022 I’ve left you gagging for more… you are going to have to go buy the book and get your […]
Read more "Pennyblade Eastercon Launch"Come one come all (bearing in mind you’ll have to be in the UK and have a membership for Eastercon ). See you next weekend!
Read more "Eastercon Book Launch Party for Pennyblade! Woo-hoo!"Here’s a link to a post I wrote for Risingshadow.net in which I look at vulgarity, cursing and general lewdness in the fantasy genre. It’s an issue of interest to me given how Pennyblade has been received. It was also a lot of fun to write.
Read more "Fantasy And Vulgarity"
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