Eastercon Book Launch Party for Pennyblade! Woo-hoo!

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!

Fantasy And Vulgarity

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.

Meanwhile, Over At John Scalzi’s Whatever Blog…

…I get to talk about Pennyblade and the fantasy elf trope. I had a lot of fun writing this post and John was very kind to let me blather on his wonderful site.

YouTube Interview With Yours Truly!

The Pennyblade blog tour continues! A bit of a change from the usual written form this time: FanFiAddict asked me on to their channel for a good old natter. Fun times ensued!

Pennyblade Blog Tour, Days 2 and 3.

Welcome, welcome! The tour continues! Yesterday saw an interview and a review over at the wonderful Trans-Scribe! A really warm review, not to mention an in-depth interview I really loved answering. Spoke lots about Pennyblade’s worldbuilding and my process with that novel. I wrote a blog post- Fantasy And Vulgarity– over at Risingshadow. Pennyblade has […]

It’s A Pennyblade Blog Tour! Yayyy!

The Pennyblade bandwagon rolls into blog town, visiting oodles of awesome blogs. I’ll link to them here each day. It’s gonna be wild, darlings!

Unboxing Video, But Down At The Pub

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 […]

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 […]

A Quick Look at My Facebook Group’s Data (and what it may tell us about fandom)

You may know I run a little facebook group called Fantasy & Sci-Fi Salon (join today!). As the administrator I get to see backstage and– though the Salon provides a small data set– it may tell us something about the state of current SFF fanship. 1: Gender disparity is fading off with the generations. That […]