Here’s a list of James’s recent posts. Also, check out his musings on being a second bloom parent.
- First prize in the Fish short memoir competition (4/2/2025)
- The Rooker Prize 2024: Announcing the Winner (4/27/2024)
- Putting musicality into writing (3/24/2024)
- No points for a heartfelt attaction (1/13/2024)
- Plastic dust-covers (2/28/2023)
- Tender is the Flesh book review **** (10/25/2022)
- Passing the time with a six-month-old (7/23/2021)
- Still learning after all these years (4/4/2021)
- A note to my newly born son (1/28/2021)
- A Christmas message to my soon to be born baby (12/24/2020)
- A note to my yet to be born baby (11/5/2020)
- Huy Truong’s outstanding envisioning of The Wrong Story characters (8/1/2020)
- #LockdownLit: The Therapist (5/16/2020)
- #LockdownLit: One Hell of an Evening (5/9/2020)
- ‘A Very Unbound Book’ Another ‘kind of’ book review. Happy Family by James Ellis (5/4/2020)
- #LockdownLit: Early Days (5/2/2020)
- #LockdownLit: The Beast (4/25/2020)
- #LockdownLit: The Fire-Diver’s Assistant (4/18/2020)
- Happy Family: bloggers’ reviews (3/22/2020)
- Facebook school friends: let’s move on (3/17/2020)
- Happy Family book launch: James Ellis in conversation with Germaine Kiecke – Saturday April 25th (3/4/2020)
- Happy Family Blog Tour (2/26/2020)
- Don’t rush a good thing (2/2/2020)
- The shape of something (1/12/2020)
- Happy Family is being serialised (10/14/2019)
- An Other’s Look has another title (9/28/2019)
- Exploring the real world… volunteers (1/28/2019)
- Exploring the real world… Goldilocks pubs (1/28/2019)
- Exploring the real world… a Christmas Carol (12/5/2018)
- Exploring the real world… the canal (12/5/2018)
- It was a dark and stormy night… (11/11/2018)
- Remember Remember… (11/1/2018)
- Exploring the real world… the ark (10/31/2018)
- Exploring the real world… and preserving it (10/31/2018)
- Exploring the real world… divine inspiration (9/25/2018)
- Running up that hill (8/8/2018)
- Exploring the real world… station therapy (8/7/2018)
- Cartoons (7/27/2018)
- Exploring the real world… our three twins (7/3/2018)
- Weeding words (not in an Elmer Fudd sense) (6/5/2018)
- Exploring the real world… it’s a dog’s life (6/3/2018)
- The Wrong Story reviews (5/14/2018)
- #AmBroadcasting (4/27/2018)
- Exploring the real world… crossing the bridge (4/26/2018)
- For you to read (4/16/2018)
- Frome FM (96.6FM) (4/10/2018)
- The Wrong Story Blog Book Tour (4/5/2018)
- An Other’s Look – The Journey So Far (4/5/2018)
- Exploring the real world… swimming (4/3/2018)
- A day in the life of a creative writer (3/11/2018)
- Don’t hand out leaflets, Stephen. I’ll do it. (2/22/2018)
- The Gudgeon (2/1/2018)
- Beasts, Tentacles, Early Days & an Unruly launch (10/27/2017)
- A bone is born (10/10/2017)
- The Limehouse Golem review – a big helmet with lots of makeup – 3/5 (9/9/2017)
- 10 Don’ts & 1 Do (6/22/2017)
- I am me. Really. (5/19/2017)
- Reviews and comments (5/4/2017)
- That Moment (4/25/2017)
- The Wrong Story – 503g of obsession (3/17/2017)
- Rolling the pastry (3/8/2017)
- I am unblocked (2/23/2017)
- I’m in control and I’ve got a spreadsheet to prove it… (2/3/2017)
- No distractions (1/23/2017)
- A cure for the common cold (10/5/2016)
- Please vote on the 23rd (6/20/2016)
- Go leaflets, go! (4/27/2016)
- You are so very very big… (4/1/2016)
- A quiet night in (3/14/2016)
- Why Unbound is the right choice for The Wrong Story (2/10/2016)
- 2015 in review (12/31/2015)
- Begin at the end and end at the beginning (or how to fail exams and confuse your friends) (11/8/2015)
- Living in Bath – cigar optional (10/21/2015)
- Acrophobia (or why I like the valleys) (9/29/2015)
- Notes on The III International Flann O’Brien Conference (9/23/2015)
- Life in the slow lane: a swimmer’s guide to the pool’s natural hazards (9/5/2015)
- A Sublime Sleight of Hand (or Why I Love The Comforters) (8/31/2015)
- Metamorphosis: Bean Bags, Flann O’Brien & Getting It Out There (8/27/2015)
- Working the pile: a submission reader’s experience of a literary agency (8/8/2015)
James Ellis in words 