Janina Matthewson
@j9andif.bsky.social
Writer. Tired. Romcoms as Georgie Tilney.
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Full disclosure: I've had an extremely rough year and I could really use a lift! You can help give me that lift by simply going out in the world and saying to another human, 'hey, you should read this thing!'
November 24, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Full disclosure: I've had an extremely rough year and I could really use a lift! You can help give me that lift by simply going out in the world and saying to another human, 'hey, you should read this thing!'
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And if you like newsletters that swing between rating outfits on tv and impotent railing against the hell in which we find ourselves, I have that too!
ihavenoplanforthis.ghost.io
ihavenoplanforthis.ghost.io
I Have No Plan For This
Do I still have the capacity to form and communicate thoughts? Let's find out.
ihavenoplanforthis.ghost.io
November 24, 2025 at 11:01 AM
And if you like newsletters that swing between rating outfits on tv and impotent railing against the hell in which we find ourselves, I have that too!
ihavenoplanforthis.ghost.io
ihavenoplanforthis.ghost.io
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If you like adventure stories and reading a book at the rate of one chapter every two weeks, there's my new serial novel
calamitystrinket.ghost.io
calamitystrinket.ghost.io
Calamity's Trinket
calamitystrinket.ghost.io
November 24, 2025 at 11:00 AM
If you like adventure stories and reading a book at the rate of one chapter every two weeks, there's my new serial novel
calamitystrinket.ghost.io
calamitystrinket.ghost.io
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There's the two part meta physical romcom I wrote last year for Radio 4
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Radio 4 - Drama on 4, The Missed Lives of Max and Judy (1/2)
A mind-bending, time-warping romcom starring Alison Steadman.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 24, 2025 at 10:59 AM
There's the two part meta physical romcom I wrote last year for Radio 4
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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There's the history podcast I make with @emmasouthon.bsky.social where we answer the questions you don't have time to research yourself
historyissexy.com
historyissexy.com
History Is Sexy
historyissexy.com
November 24, 2025 at 10:58 AM
There's the history podcast I make with @emmasouthon.bsky.social where we answer the questions you don't have time to research yourself
historyissexy.com
historyissexy.com
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There's the audio drama we write in the same universe, currently in its 10th and final season
www.nightvalepresents.com/withinthewires
www.nightvalepresents.com/withinthewires
Within the Wires — Night Vale Presents
Found audio from an alternate universe. Written by Jeffrey Cranor and Janina Matthewson.
www.nightvalepresents.com
November 24, 2025 at 10:56 AM
There's the audio drama we write in the same universe, currently in its 10th and final season
www.nightvalepresents.com/withinthewires
www.nightvalepresents.com/withinthewires
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If you like sprawling alternate history with unreliable narrators, there's the book I co-wrote with @happierman.bsky.social (currently only available as an audiobook in the uk)
www.amazon.co.uk/You-Feel-Jus...
www.amazon.co.uk/You-Feel-Jus...
You Feel It Just Below the Ribs (Audio Download): Janina Matthewson, Jeffrey Cranor, Kirsten Potter, W. F. Howes Ltd: Amazon.co.uk: Books
You Feel It Just Below the Ribs (Audio Download): Janina Matthewson, Jeffrey Cranor, Kirsten Potter, W. F. Howes Ltd: Amazon.co.uk: Books
www.amazon.co.uk
November 24, 2025 at 10:56 AM
If you like sprawling alternate history with unreliable narrators, there's the book I co-wrote with @happierman.bsky.social (currently only available as an audiobook in the uk)
www.amazon.co.uk/You-Feel-Jus...
www.amazon.co.uk/You-Feel-Jus...
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If you like fun romance at the beach there's my first romcom
uk.bookshop.org/p/books/beac...
uk.bookshop.org/p/books/beac...
Beach Rivals
Check out Beach Rivals - <p>ESCAPE TO BALI WITH THIS YEAR'S MOST FEEL-GOOD ROMANTIC COMEDY</p><p><b><br />'Complete sunshine in book form... a delicious slow burn love story'</b> Cressida McLaughlin, ...
uk.bookshop.org
November 24, 2025 at 10:54 AM
If you like fun romance at the beach there's my first romcom
uk.bookshop.org/p/books/beac...
uk.bookshop.org/p/books/beac...
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If you like small time drama with simmering tension amid an apocalypse, there's my most recent book
uk.bookshop.org/a/12039/9781...
uk.bookshop.org/a/12039/9781...
The Horses: A poetic and moving story of community and isolation in the wake of a disaster
A poetic and moving story of community and isolation in the wake of a disaster
uk.bookshop.org
November 24, 2025 at 10:53 AM
If you like small time drama with simmering tension amid an apocalypse, there's my most recent book
uk.bookshop.org/a/12039/9781...
uk.bookshop.org/a/12039/9781...
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If you like something fanciful and strange, there's my first ever book
uk.bookshop.org/a/12039/9780...
uk.bookshop.org/a/12039/9780...
Of Things Gone Astray
Check out Of Things Gone Astray -
<p>Mrs Featherby had been having pleasant dreams until she woke to discover the front of her house had vanished overnight …</p>
<p>On a seemingly...
uk.bookshop.org
November 24, 2025 at 10:52 AM
If you like something fanciful and strange, there's my first ever book
uk.bookshop.org/a/12039/9780...
uk.bookshop.org/a/12039/9780...
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It's my birthday this week and what I would really like is for people to tell other people about something I have written!
Honestly at this point there really is something for everyone
Honestly at this point there really is something for everyone
November 24, 2025 at 10:50 AM
It's my birthday this week and what I would really like is for people to tell other people about something I have written!
Honestly at this point there really is something for everyone
Honestly at this point there really is something for everyone
I am ten years, four books, and multiple audio dramas into my career and I am still getting advances this small, some of which have been paid out over TWO AND A HALF YEARS.
And because the advances are small the marketing plans are also tiny, so you're left to build a readership entirely alone
And because the advances are small the marketing plans are also tiny, so you're left to build a readership entirely alone
A reminder that the median book deal for a debut author in the UK is £7000, paid over 12-18 months. (from 2022 Society of Authors report). Some of your favourite writers are struggling. societyofauthors.org/2022/12/06/a....
A profession struggling to sustain itself - The Society of Authors
ALCS report on author incomes shows 60% drop in median incomes since 2006
societyofauthors.org
November 24, 2025 at 6:22 PM
I am ten years, four books, and multiple audio dramas into my career and I am still getting advances this small, some of which have been paid out over TWO AND A HALF YEARS.
And because the advances are small the marketing plans are also tiny, so you're left to build a readership entirely alone
And because the advances are small the marketing plans are also tiny, so you're left to build a readership entirely alone
It's my birthday this week and what I would really like is for people to tell other people about something I have written!
Honestly at this point there really is something for everyone
Honestly at this point there really is something for everyone
November 24, 2025 at 10:50 AM
It's my birthday this week and what I would really like is for people to tell other people about something I have written!
Honestly at this point there really is something for everyone
Honestly at this point there really is something for everyone
Look, I've never liked Wuthering Heights and I've read it multiple times to check I'm still right not to like it and that godawful trailer is making me want to read it YET AGAIN just to check I haven't remembered it all wrong, like, omg wtf
November 14, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Look, I've never liked Wuthering Heights and I've read it multiple times to check I'm still right not to like it and that godawful trailer is making me want to read it YET AGAIN just to check I haven't remembered it all wrong, like, omg wtf
This is actually a good way to keep me around after I die because I will haunt you if you do this to me, I will find a way to make ghosts real so I can come back and roast you forever
November 14, 2025 at 1:36 PM
This is actually a good way to keep me around after I die because I will haunt you if you do this to me, I will find a way to make ghosts real so I can come back and roast you forever
All rental property should be state owned
"my least woke opinion is---"
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
November 14, 2025 at 1:30 PM
All rental property should be state owned
This is the single most correct statement on the whole internet
Guys and Dolls is the show that is most likely to be wildly entertaining regardless of which company is staging it, up to and including 7th graders.
what is the best musical of all time and please explain yourself so i know whether or not to be angry at you
November 14, 2025 at 9:47 AM
This is the single most correct statement on the whole internet
Ok who's dishing out book token clues?
November 13, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Ok who's dishing out book token clues?
I've decided I want to make a ladies do crime road movie about three sisters, played by Kim Cattrall, Jennifer Coolidge and Miss Piggy
November 12, 2025 at 8:38 PM
I've decided I want to make a ladies do crime road movie about three sisters, played by Kim Cattrall, Jennifer Coolidge and Miss Piggy
My hot take on the male gaze is that it only feels gross and exploitative when it is coupled with a fundamental lack of respect, when it is driven by wanting to fuck women while not enjoying their company, when it is possessive instead of appreciative
The thing is like if we want to fight back against prudery and sex negativity we also have to stop referring to stuff as 'gooner art' and accept that nsfw shit that reads as 'for the male gaze' has as much a right to exist as your favourite yaoi
November 11, 2025 at 12:39 PM
My hot take on the male gaze is that it only feels gross and exploitative when it is coupled with a fundamental lack of respect, when it is driven by wanting to fuck women while not enjoying their company, when it is possessive instead of appreciative
Wrote about HOPE like some kind of SAP, posting about it clouded with IRONY like some kind of MILLENNIAL
buff.ly/AGQ9YGR
buff.ly/AGQ9YGR
On hope
A few years ago, for History is Sexy, we had a question come in about musicals and revolutions. Naturally the reasons we come back to stories about revolutions, musical or otherwise, are myriad and…
ihavenoplanforthis.ghost.io
November 9, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Wrote about HOPE like some kind of SAP, posting about it clouded with IRONY like some kind of MILLENNIAL
buff.ly/AGQ9YGR
buff.ly/AGQ9YGR
lol at "conservative feminism" actually
November 6, 2025 at 3:22 PM
lol at "conservative feminism" actually
Mamdani, more like yumdani, is this anything
November 6, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Mamdani, more like yumdani, is this anything