James Wright
@jameswrights.bsky.social
Librarian & Indie Author of genre satire. Known for having a visual style & unique characters, as well as snappy dialogue. If only I was like that in real life!
Check out my works in the links👇!
https://linktr.ee/jameswritessurprisingly
Check out my works in the links👇!
https://linktr.ee/jameswritessurprisingly
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Thank you everyone for a very successful Black Friday sale!🧡
By the end of things Friends With Death nearly cracked the top ten in satire and horror comedy, the only genres I really care about so I am pretty chuffed with that! Also 33 in British Horror Fiction is nothing to sniff at!🙌🥳 #authorsky
By the end of things Friends With Death nearly cracked the top ten in satire and horror comedy, the only genres I really care about so I am pretty chuffed with that! Also 33 in British Horror Fiction is nothing to sniff at!🙌🥳 #authorsky
Found a quiet moment on the way home to snap some campus trees🌲
January 16, 2026 at 9:40 PM
Found a quiet moment on the way home to snap some campus trees🌲
In case you missed the instructional video, I made book paste today! The Repairs it will be used for will be posted tomorrow along with the results!🙌 #librarysky
January 16, 2026 at 8:24 PM
In case you missed the instructional video, I made book paste today! The Repairs it will be used for will be posted tomorrow along with the results!🙌 #librarysky
Lunch time rewards for a busy day of book repair
January 16, 2026 at 6:27 PM
Lunch time rewards for a busy day of book repair
I thought I'd make this little video of my book repair paste making process with wheat starch & water, so you can know how to do it without possibly having all the right tools or exact measurements, because who has those things when you're fixing a century old book on the fly?!
#booksky #librarysky
#booksky #librarysky
January 16, 2026 at 4:30 PM
I thought I'd make this little video of my book repair paste making process with wheat starch & water, so you can know how to do it without possibly having all the right tools or exact measurements, because who has those things when you're fixing a century old book on the fly?!
#booksky #librarysky
#booksky #librarysky
I'm back at the library and term has started! Someone from another department came up to me asking about an old book repair, so I'm going to cook up some book paste and see what I can do!📚 (The process all starts with this wheat paste)
January 16, 2026 at 11:43 AM
I'm back at the library and term has started! Someone from another department came up to me asking about an old book repair, so I'm going to cook up some book paste and see what I can do!📚 (The process all starts with this wheat paste)
Dinner of lamb, rice and veggies*
*Before the addition of sauces and cheese
*Before the addition of sauces and cheese
January 15, 2026 at 8:14 PM
Dinner of lamb, rice and veggies*
*Before the addition of sauces and cheese
*Before the addition of sauces and cheese
I'm going through and backing up old photos and I've noticed that every year I take some of my body for a "before" pic, and so far there has never been an "after"😅
I hope all your goals for 2026 are going swimmingly, and no worries if not, we've all been there!🧡
I hope all your goals for 2026 are going swimmingly, and no worries if not, we've all been there!🧡
January 15, 2026 at 12:25 PM
I'm going through and backing up old photos and I've noticed that every year I take some of my body for a "before" pic, and so far there has never been an "after"😅
I hope all your goals for 2026 are going swimmingly, and no worries if not, we've all been there!🧡
I hope all your goals for 2026 are going swimmingly, and no worries if not, we've all been there!🧡
Another drunken tea adventure from our love-struck students on the run from time travelling anti-technology zealots!
#writersky #authorsky #wipwednesday
#writersky #authorsky #wipwednesday
January 15, 2026 at 2:00 AM
Another drunken tea adventure from our love-struck students on the run from time travelling anti-technology zealots!
#writersky #authorsky #wipwednesday
#writersky #authorsky #wipwednesday
That's one fancy poke pack!
January 14, 2026 at 7:49 PM
That's one fancy poke pack!
It's cheesy bacon bap/batch/cob/roll day!
(Don't want to kick off a UK bread war)
(Don't want to kick off a UK bread war)
January 13, 2026 at 3:12 PM
It's cheesy bacon bap/batch/cob/roll day!
(Don't want to kick off a UK bread war)
(Don't want to kick off a UK bread war)
Final puzzle progression for the week
January 12, 2026 at 9:02 PM
Final puzzle progression for the week
Personally I like my Grim Reaper with the skin on, get out of here with that boney baloney!💀
Coincidentally I have a book out with a pale-skinned Death, whose sensibilities can be compared to a mix of the Grim Reaper in Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey and Terry Pratchett. Consider picking up a copy!📚😄
Coincidentally I have a book out with a pale-skinned Death, whose sensibilities can be compared to a mix of the Grim Reaper in Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey and Terry Pratchett. Consider picking up a copy!📚😄
January 12, 2026 at 5:54 PM
Personally I like my Grim Reaper with the skin on, get out of here with that boney baloney!💀
Coincidentally I have a book out with a pale-skinned Death, whose sensibilities can be compared to a mix of the Grim Reaper in Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey and Terry Pratchett. Consider picking up a copy!📚😄
Coincidentally I have a book out with a pale-skinned Death, whose sensibilities can be compared to a mix of the Grim Reaper in Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey and Terry Pratchett. Consider picking up a copy!📚😄
Fetching books for students for the first day of term. Most of them are for the same two people, clearly they are going to be reading up an American Literature storm this term!📚
January 12, 2026 at 2:15 PM
Fetching books for students for the first day of term. Most of them are for the same two people, clearly they are going to be reading up an American Literature storm this term!📚
If there is one argument that moves me towards traditional publishing it is cover design, look how pretty this book is!
(If only I could keep my content but have the money to pay someone to produce such quality work) #booksky
(If only I could keep my content but have the money to pay someone to produce such quality work) #booksky
January 12, 2026 at 11:46 AM
If there is one argument that moves me towards traditional publishing it is cover design, look how pretty this book is!
(If only I could keep my content but have the money to pay someone to produce such quality work) #booksky
(If only I could keep my content but have the money to pay someone to produce such quality work) #booksky
Found a book from 1890 in the library store on the works of a guy called Sir Thomas Overbury. I like seeing people's writing in the book from a over a century ago.
Although beneath his cheeky-chappy smile appears to a kind of early "take my wife, please" joke, although I might be reading it wrong!😅
Although beneath his cheeky-chappy smile appears to a kind of early "take my wife, please" joke, although I might be reading it wrong!😅
January 11, 2026 at 7:13 PM
Found a book from 1890 in the library store on the works of a guy called Sir Thomas Overbury. I like seeing people's writing in the book from a over a century ago.
Although beneath his cheeky-chappy smile appears to a kind of early "take my wife, please" joke, although I might be reading it wrong!😅
Although beneath his cheeky-chappy smile appears to a kind of early "take my wife, please" joke, although I might be reading it wrong!😅
Lunchtime puzzle progress!☺️
January 11, 2026 at 5:21 PM
Lunchtime puzzle progress!☺️
The person who deposited their book this way lacks discipline and disrespects library law, I don't think they could have learned a single thing from reading this book.
Or else maybe it is an ironic protest move🤔 #librarysky
Or else maybe it is an ironic protest move🤔 #librarysky
January 11, 2026 at 12:19 PM
The person who deposited their book this way lacks discipline and disrespects library law, I don't think they could have learned a single thing from reading this book.
Or else maybe it is an ironic protest move🤔 #librarysky
Or else maybe it is an ironic protest move🤔 #librarysky
My impression of politics via the medium of books:
January 11, 2026 at 10:24 AM
My impression of politics via the medium of books:
This copy of Hans Christian Anderson's The Snow Queen by Naomi Lewis is beautiful, and the illustrations by Christian Birmingham are magical!❄️✨
January 10, 2026 at 7:25 PM
This copy of Hans Christian Anderson's The Snow Queen by Naomi Lewis is beautiful, and the illustrations by Christian Birmingham are magical!❄️✨
Not a bad effort for a lunch time puzzling!
January 10, 2026 at 3:56 PM
Not a bad effort for a lunch time puzzling!
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A quick look at a library repair for a paperback book with a peeling cover and a split spine in the middle.
You simply glue the areas and wrap up with a support bandage and leave overnight. Then open it up to see if everything is set right!
#repair #bookrepair #library #booklover #librarianlife
A quick look at a library repair for a paperback book with a peeling cover and a split spine in the middle.
You simply glue the areas and wrap up with a support bandage and leave overnight. Then open it up to see if everything is set right!
#repair #bookrepair #library #booklover #librarianlife
January 10, 2026 at 1:51 PM
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A quick look at a library repair for a paperback book with a peeling cover and a split spine in the middle.
You simply glue the areas and wrap up with a support bandage and leave overnight. Then open it up to see if everything is set right!
#repair #bookrepair #library #booklover #librarianlife
A quick look at a library repair for a paperback book with a peeling cover and a split spine in the middle.
You simply glue the areas and wrap up with a support bandage and leave overnight. Then open it up to see if everything is set right!
#repair #bookrepair #library #booklover #librarianlife
Making some sweet and sour pork with noodles and extra pineapple!🍍
January 10, 2026 at 12:02 AM
Making some sweet and sour pork with noodles and extra pineapple!🍍
I spotted this book on the discards shelf & it stood out straight away due to to golden insignia on the side.📚
Then when I opened it up I thought it was really weird that we had some random highschool's yearbook in our British library. Then I recognized Linda Cardellini and realized it was a book...
Then when I opened it up I thought it was really weird that we had some random highschool's yearbook in our British library. Then I recognized Linda Cardellini and realized it was a book...
January 9, 2026 at 5:33 PM
I spotted this book on the discards shelf & it stood out straight away due to to golden insignia on the side.📚
Then when I opened it up I thought it was really weird that we had some random highschool's yearbook in our British library. Then I recognized Linda Cardellini and realized it was a book...
Then when I opened it up I thought it was really weird that we had some random highschool's yearbook in our British library. Then I recognized Linda Cardellini and realized it was a book...