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James is a full-time writer.

• Don’t hand out leaflets, Stephen. I’ll do it.

  By James Ellis on February 22, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  My next few months are now defined – crowdfunding my new novel, An Other’s Look, which is going to be published by Unbound. The site has gone live and here it is! I spent all last year writing it, following… Read More ›

• The Gudgeon

  By James Ellis on February 1, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  When you walk across the town bridge in Bradford on Avon, three things are likely to strike you. The first is the wing mirror of a passing car. The second  is the town lock-up which is affixed to the bridge…. Read More ›

• Coming Out Of The Upstairs

  By James Ellis on November 13, 2017 • ( 0 )

  Here’s something a bit different – a piece of Flash Fiction – and I’m enormously grateful to the wonderful The Pygmy Giant for publishing it. Coming Out Of The Upstairs

• Beasts, Tentacles, Early Days & an Unruly launch

  By James Ellis on October 27, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  Wow. After nine months strapped to a keyboard writing The Other’s Look, when nothing much happened other than my elbow snapped (it now has a sticky-out bit, like a cartoon elbow, which I quite like), there’s been a flurry of… Read More ›

• A bone is born

  By James Ellis on October 10, 2017 • ( 3 )

  

  I’ve broken my elbow. To be precise, I’ve fractured it. To be utterly accurate, the end of my funny bone has been chipped off. I’ll leave the gags to you. I was knocked over by a group of charging youths… Read More ›

• The Limehouse Golem review – a big helmet with lots of makeup – 3/5

  By James Ellis on September 9, 2017 • ( 0 )

  The Limehouse Golem is a Ripperesque throat-slasher stuffed full of London fog, grubby horse-drawn coaches, grimy cockney characters and naïve prostitutes with dirt smeared on their faces. Was it ever clean in London? It stars Bill Nighy, Olivia Cooke and… Read More ›

• 10 Don’ts & 1 Do

  By James Ellis on June 22, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  Six months after turning to freelance writing full-time, I’ve learned some lessons. Mostly about what not to do. Here are ten Don’ts and one Do. Don’t blog about writing (hem) when you should be writing. You’re not fooling anyone –… Read More ›

• I am me. Really.

  By James Ellis on May 19, 2017 • ( 1 )

  Yesterday I had to visit a solicitor’s office to have my identity validated. I’d failed a money laundering test because I have two addresses and it wasn’t clear to anybody, including me, in which one I lived. According to the… Read More ›

• Reviews and comments

  By James Ellis on May 4, 2017 • ( 1 )

  One of the things I’ve learned (and am still learning) is that once a book has been published, genuine reviews on book sites such as Amazon and Goodreads are like gold. If anyone has read The Wrong Story and liked it, a… Read More ›

• That Moment

  By James Ellis on April 25, 2017 • ( 0 )

  Five months ago a very important person in my life died. I was there. I saw it all. Senses diminished. Movement slowed. Breathing stopped. It might be witnessing the mechanics of dying, or trying to accommodate the loss, or just failing to comprehend nothingness…. Read More ›