Mark your calendars! I’m doing a chat/reading at Super Relaxed Fantasy Club along with awesome authors Stark Holborn and Josh Winning! 9th of January, 7.00pm at The Star Of King pub, London.
Read more "Appearance: London, January 9th!"My proudest moment. Wiktionary has cited Pennyblade as an example of a certain rare term. It feels grand and humbling to give back to the dear old mother tongue.
Read more "Wiktionary Cites My Book!"With temperatures plummeting like a hammer off a high scaffold and the rains splattering the streets like someone beneath said hammer I think its time I revealed a secret about myself: in bad weather I often pretend I am a robot. Let me ‘unpack that’, as Buzzfeed columnists inevitably used to say by the second […]
Read more "This One Weird Mecha Trick Protects Me From Bad Weather!"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.
Read more "My Octopus Pal…"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 […]
Read more "A Little Improvisation…"A mysterious package arrived and so I took it to the tavern room of Worrad Manor and opened it up. What a darling surprise! 😍
Read more "A Mysterious Package Arrives…"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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J.L. Worrad 