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Midnight Barflies, Leicester
My Octopus Pal…
Been wearing this pendant for some weeks now. Picked it up for £3.00 at a literary convention in Edinburgh. I only wish I had some deep personal connection to octopi. But it looks pretty.
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A Little Improvisation…
My office is also my living room, which is nice and light and airy when I’m working but hella echoey when I’m doing a YouTube Zoom interview. Today I’m experimenting to muffle all that. Seems to work. A bit anyway. I may or may not pop a blanket on top as a roof. But I’m […]
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A mysterious package arrived and so I took it to the tavern room of Worrad Manor and opened it up. What a darling surprise! 😍
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Weird how events change you. When I first saw 1917 back when it came out it hit me in the feels, sure, but I watched it last night and the end teared me up (I honestly can’t remember when last that happened). I now realise the difference is I hadn’t been through a Big Thing […]
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Just invented the Pennyblade. It’s very simple: Tall glass with ice25 ml absintheTop with half lemonade/half cranberry juice. Add a lemon slice. As many of you will already know, it’s named after my grimdark fantasy novel and tastes exactly like the main character’s personality. Find out more here: jamesworrad.com/february-2022-…
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Kevin O’Neil and Blitzspear
The passing away of Kevin O’Neil has hit me more than I’d ever have thought it would. His comic art blew my little mind back when I was a kid. Today I was thinking how overlooked his design of Blitzspear (the living spacecraft of Nemesis The Warlock) is. It never makes any top ten of […]
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J.L. Worrad 