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James Alistair Henry

@jamesbluecat.bsky.social

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Surrounded by yowling, nebulous forms. Writer: Green Wing, Smack The Pony, Delivery Man, Piglets, my first novel Pagans out now: https://www.waterstones.com/book/pagans/james-alistair-henry/9781916678064

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James Alistair Henry @jamesbluecat.bsky.social · Aug 4

Just realised that, brilliantly, my pinned tweet for ages has been for the exclusive edition of Pagans that sold out some time ago, so here's a link to the other one. www.waterstones.com/book/pagans/...

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James Alistair Henry @jamesbluecat.bsky.social · 35m

Oh, cheers!

James Alistair Henry @jamesbluecat.bsky.social · 1h

Yup! 3/4 through fist draft of 2, plan is to write three in total.

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James Alistair Henry @jamesbluecat.bsky.social · 1h

I always got Sauron and Saruman mixed up.

James Alistair Henry @jamesbluecat.bsky.social · 1h

Apparently so!

James Alistair Henry @jamesbluecat.bsky.social · 1h

Also, it's going to have the opening chapter of the upcoming sequel in it, forgot to say.

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James Alistair Henry @jamesbluecat.bsky.social · 3h

When I see a book I really hate in a charity shop, I sometimes consider buying it and immediately binning it so they get the money but no-one else has suffer, although I've not actually been mad enough to do this yet.

James Alistair Henry @jamesbluecat.bsky.social · 3h

My much-missed friend Richard Preddy realised he was aphantasic about the same time and me and it was really interesting comparing notes (for us if not anyone else). We both really liked the rhythm of dialogue and people getting words very slightly wrong, for one thing.

James Alistair Henry @jamesbluecat.bsky.social · 3h

Oh yeah, *that's* not going to happen.

James Alistair Henry @jamesbluecat.bsky.social · 3h

Cheers!

James Alistair Henry @jamesbluecat.bsky.social · 3h

Cheers!

James Alistair Henry @jamesbluecat.bsky.social · 4h

Yeah, I like to think of them as helpful guides, just how the illustrator saw them, rather than the *definitive* version...

James Alistair Henry @jamesbluecat.bsky.social · 4h

I used to be very bad with faces, almost face-blind, but I've sort of trained myself to recognise people now (although I'm still very bad if I meet people out of their usual context)

James Alistair Henry @jamesbluecat.bsky.social · 4h

I totally get that - and yeah, some of my scriptwriter friends are the exact opposite to me like that - they often end up being the ones who go more into directing, interestingly.

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James Alistair Henry @jamesbluecat.bsky.social · 4h

Ha, same.

James Alistair Henry @jamesbluecat.bsky.social · 5h

75% of the way through the second Pagans book, so that's good.

James Alistair Henry @jamesbluecat.bsky.social · 5h

Yeah, I get that.

James Alistair Henry @jamesbluecat.bsky.social · 5h

Oh yes, same.

James Alistair Henry @jamesbluecat.bsky.social · 5h

Hurrah!

James Alistair Henry @jamesbluecat.bsky.social · 5h

Although surprisingly, I found that once I'd discovered other people could make mental images really easily, I got *slightly* better at it at trying to picture maps in my head, etc, which wouldn't have occurred to me was even a possibility before.

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James Alistair Henry @jamesbluecat.bsky.social · 5h

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James Alistair Henry @jamesbluecat.bsky.social · 5h

Until midnight this Friday (17th Oct), Waterstones are giving 25% off the preorder of the paperback edition of Pagans (due Feb '26) if you use the code OCTOBER25, so that's a thing you could do if you wanted.

www.waterstones.com/book/pagans/...

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James Alistair Henry @jamesbluecat.bsky.social · 5h

(although I have just put up a link for 25% off the paperback pre-order, so I wouldn't be offended if you wanted to cancel and do that instead)

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James Alistair Henry @jamesbluecat.bsky.social · 5h

I'm so proud right now

James Alistair Henry @jamesbluecat.bsky.social · 5h

I love graphic novels, but what I want is just a little hint/drawing every now and then, every few pages. Bit sad really.

James Alistair Henry @jamesbluecat.bsky.social · 6h

Oh yes, completely useless.