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J.L. Worrad

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Fantasy author. ‘The Keep Within’ and ‘Pennyblade’ available from @titanbooks.bsky.social

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Spam is basically dogfood for humans.

04.03.2026 22:32 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 2

I was stood at my road’s crossing and the green light took so long I started to imagine a trailer for a 90’s Hollywood movie called The Crossing Man and I was already on to the sequel, The Crossing Man: Final Crossing, before the lights changed and I could actually cross.

04.03.2026 16:19 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

This looks a lot of fun! Trip's a spectacular author.

03.03.2026 21:34 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Sending out stories to magazines is like having a gamble on the horses whilst also breeding the horses in the hope they’ll win a race.

02.03.2026 22:13 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

It felt strange typing that I’ll admit.

02.03.2026 16:22 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

That’d be awesome. Set on a Federation ship but now with that Das Boot vibe.

02.03.2026 16:22 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

It’s a testament to Paramount’s integrity that they haven’t done a reboot of Next Generation yet. But it can only be a matter of time.

02.03.2026 16:12 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
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Young Peter Falk has serious Chalamet energy…

01.03.2026 22:39 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Congratulations to all shorties!

28.02.2026 21:09 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The curse of living long is to see so many others die.

28.02.2026 00:56 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Brilliant.

26.02.2026 00:53 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Up The Kola Peninsula is the Carry On movie they didn’t dare make.

25.02.2026 17:30 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

😆

25.02.2026 16:59 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Sky News just highlighted Sweden and Finland within NATO and I giggled. I’m a child.

25.02.2026 16:55 👍 11 🔁 1 💬 3 📌 0

My personal mantra when it comes to using descriptions in fiction is ‘invite, don’t impose’. A red Georgian townhouse is enough; the reader will pour in their own details from their own experience, the townhouses they’ve seen or even lived in. Your readers’ memories and imaginations are your ally.

24.02.2026 21:14 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Every adaptation of Dune is simultaneously the best and worst adaptation.

22.02.2026 20:37 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Feeding Sammie on the Park. He’s not backwards about coming forwards, I know that much. Eager lad our Sammie.

19.02.2026 20:26 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Just seen the dental hygienist to have my pegs scrubbed so if you’ve ever planned to French kiss me today’s your optimal window.

18.02.2026 14:47 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Hell yeah!

14.02.2026 15:38 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

We seem to have stumbled on a zeitgeist. Everyone’ll be doing it.

14.02.2026 15:35 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

The cleanest sweater I have right now is a Christmas jumper and so I’m wearing a Christmas jumper on Valentines Day. Punk as fuck.

14.02.2026 15:15 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Got dat 70’s pub landlord rizz

11.02.2026 19:43 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Just in case anyone desperately wants to know what road I’m researching. I made a good choice I think…

10.02.2026 00:05 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Currently looking up the roads around the Millennium Dome on Google Street View for the short story I’m working on. Don’t ever tell me writing ain’t a wild and exciting life.

10.02.2026 00:03 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Congratulations!

09.02.2026 03:29 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

It was like seeing an old friend.

09.02.2026 01:52 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Speaking as a Brit it was nice to see the halftime Super Bowl, a side of America that I hadn’t seen in a while. Joyful and creative and, above all, kind.

09.02.2026 01:37 👍 10 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0

The Telegraph can shove its opinion pieces up its arse. #Leicester4ever

08.02.2026 16:42 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

One of my favourite moments in a museum was the label underneath a neolithic pot: 'c.4000-2500 BCE. Artist unknown.'

07.02.2026 14:57 👍 73 🔁 19 💬 0 📌 0
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Pennyblade A sharp-tongued disgraced-noble-turned-mercenary has to…

Pennyblade has just had its hundredth review on Goodreads. A… divisive novel, I love to read the reviews, especially the one stars. Thank you to anyone who left a review or rating.

www.goodreads.com/book/show/58...

07.02.2026 14:48 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0