So I can announce I’ve a story in this here beauty from Flame Tree Press. It’s a spitfire vs dragon situation with a sapphic romance thrown in. You know, the usual. blog.flametreepublishing.com/fantasy-goth...

I’d love someone to take all the famous alleged photos of Bigfoot and photoshop them into one single picture so that we can see the whole darn blurry-ass family.

Flying Squirrel Loves It Every Time

I knew it would take less than a day for a tiktok dj to make something.

They say our culture lacks coming-of-age rites but honestly I think a boy becomes a man when he realises Scorsese is superior to Tarantino.

Joe Worrad (1938 - 1925) jamesworrad.com/2025/11/03/j...

The Andrew formerly known as Prince...

It’s the conservatives in a society that are responsible for revolution. They conserved too much.

So if AI can write a work email for you do you think that’ll make your life easier or will your boss realise they can just give you an absolute shit ton of emails to do?

Goodreader takes a stand for Pennyblade…

Picked up a newspaper for my dad and it feels different nowadays, carrying a paper through town. A little old-fashioned but also a little aristocratic, like walking around with a riding crop. You feel a cut above the smartphone masses, almost as if you’re on a penny farthing.

Midnight plushie appreciation

If You’re So Vain is secretly about Mick Jagger then Carly Simon pulled a baller move asking him to sing backing vocals on the track.

Just said Calamari instead of Kalahari and now I can’t stop thinking about squid that have adapted to desert life.

Windows 10 goes out of support today. My fave useless fact about w10 is that the iconic blue desktop background is a *photograph* - not CGI. Tiny 'making of' vid here - youtu.be/_2RacX9DgWM...

Not all heroes wear capes.

Snelly! (New housemate)

Be funny if that new Odyssey movie takes ten years to come out.

The aftermath…

Never made so many complimentary cheeseboards in one night. That was complimentary cheeseboard Stalingrad.

Found this today. Having three big gigs occur close to each other we decided to set about the mildly ambitious August Tour Of Leicester. The upside being we could produce one big poster for all three gigs. An incredible August, amongst the best of my life now I think about it.

Idea for a tv drama called LEMONFALL that’s about life in a small American town. The hook is that a lemon is guaranteed to fall on someone’s head every scene. I feel that’s the promise from the writer to the audience.

I would describe the bar I work at as a middle class Mos Eisley.

I can announce this now. I’m aboard this awesome project to make sure the grim is sufficiently dark and the dark appropriately grim.

Thank you forever @worrad.bsky.social. Glad you enjoyed GODFESTATION, out Aug. 2026. “Like all the great horror authors, Gammon knows menace and terror are tied to the landscape. Her Southern Appalachia exudes a darkest beauty.” @sleyhouseeditor.bsky.social #horror #books #Appalachia

Moved this bed and mattress at my parents’ house. It’s probably from the 1940s and belonged to my mum’s boss at Leicester uni library. It looks like something Bertie Wooster might collapse on or a young TS Eliot. Very well made, ‘Maples & Co’, who were around since 1841 but went bust in ‘97.

jamesworrad.com/2025/09/23/e... Quick notes about my day out to EdgeLit

Great fun running the raffle at EdgeLit with @rjbarker.bsky.social which was a convivial riot. The cosy chairs were excellent.

Endorsed. Yes, I would say that, wouldn't I, given I'm written an essay in it as well? Considering what Tolkien's creative process can offer a writer today.

Just picked up my author’s copy of Writing The Magic, sent to me by Dead Ink Books. Always get a kick out of seeing me words in ink; this time an essay rather than a story. Some wonderful authors in this one. If you want to write fantasy you could do a lot worse than check this book out.

I hope someone pulls a prank on Trump during his visit that’s so good and on point that a British movie gets made about the events twenty years from now.

You wanna write? Here’s my perhaps off-the-beaten-path advice: go to the same pub regularly (or work there). Let the regulars talk to you. You’ll find out about people. After a couple pints they’ll show you their inner world like it was a new tattoo. And there’ll be stories too.

Reading up about the Hampstead Fuck Tree (which has its own Wikipedia entry). Lot of history to that slutty lil’ tree…

This Saturday coming a genre fiction mushroom cloud explodes over Derby! We’ve Garth Marenghi and Peter F Hamilton, darn it! Tim Lennon too! And I’ll be running a workshop on writing character and dialogue! I’m presenting the charity raffle too and more! Come see!

This is accurate and I love it.

Get in, losers. We're posting John Berkey spaceships.

I live in fear of a remake of the 1996 movie The Rock but this time starring The Rock.

It's my birthday!! I'm 49 - how did that happen? I would LOVE it if you could share or follow my art for my birthday, that would be a brilliant gift! Thank you everyone who follows and comments, it is such a great place here! 49 feels ace btw. #artshare #birthday #watercolour www.emilyhare.co.uk

there are so many more interesting things in the world to do than litfic vs genre. digging at your genitals with rusty kitchen shears. jumping out of a window 108 stories up & listening to the wind build in your ears before landing with a sound like a bag of wet tomatoes being shot out of a cannon

Learning new facts today…

I like the way Elon hasn’t really said shit in the last few months. It’s easily his most attractive feature.

Batman video game but with a campiness setting, 1 being you get a Chris Nolan tough guy Gotham and 10 being the Joker surfing in a bright purple suit and Batman doing the Batusi.

This is not the future I expected growing up.

Pennyblade but make it WW2…

Found this sat next to my dad. He calls it ‘Donald without toupee’

I always thought that moment when Julius Caesar stood in front of the Roman people as Mark Anthony kept offering to put a crown on his head, the pair of them checking the crowd’s reaction, was dumb as heck but I could honestly see Trump and Vance doing it tomorrow.

The brand of fly killer looks like it’s from Ren ‘n’ Stimpy.

I’ve decided on my Muppets Mulholland Drive. (Spoilers) In the first half Laura Harring (Rita) is the one lone human in a cast of muppets. Then, right after the box scene, Naomi Watts (Diane Selwyn) is the only human. I trust we’re all agreed on this.