Writing
So I’m In An Upcoming Anthology…
…with all these awesome authors… Adrian Tchaikovsky, Cynthia Pelayo, Stark Holborn, Ai Jiang, Paul Cornell, Bonnie Burton, David Quantick, Eugen Bacon, Peter McLean, Ren Hutchings, Renan Bernardo, Greg van Eekhout, Pedro Iniguez, Jonathan Maberry, Dennis K. Crosby, D.K. Stone, Sarah L. Miles, J.L. Worrad, KC Grifant, Antony Johnston, Mya Duong, Helen Glynn Jones, Alice James, […]
Read more "So I’m In An Upcoming Anthology…"Work In Progress Update
Found this illustration (by Meig Dickson) and it could almost be the cover of the book I’m writing. I’m 97,000 words in and I think it’ll top out at 120.
Read more "Work In Progress Update"A Photo From Four Years Past
Cripes, there’s an image to appear in my FB memories. Sat in Room 3 of Premier Inn Leicester North West during lockdown and editing a manuscript of Pennyblade to the tune of both my editor and agent. A weird time, a crossroads, full of fear and excitement: disease stalked the land and I was caretaker […]
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Fantasy And Vulgarity
This was an article I wrote for Risingshadow.com back in ’22 when Pennyblade debuted. I think it still holds true today given the average fantasy reader, much as I love them, can be surprisingly conservative in an unexamined sort of way. Including the progressive ones. My upcoming novel, Pennyblade, has been getting mixed reviews in that […]
Read more "Fantasy And Vulgarity"Interview With Stephen Aryan…
…the awesome fantasy actor of The Battlemage series and others. He asked me about my books, my process and we even discussed Jason And The Argonauts! He great ‘chat show’ host and even greater guy! Check his channel (and his books!) out…
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@sapphiclitbot is a bit of a Twitter (I still don’t call it X ) institution, often getting retweeted into my timeline, so it was lovely to see it quote my novel Pennyblade. It’s bits of cultural recognition that keep you going, you know?
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J.L. Worrad 