J.W. Ellenhall
@jwellenhall.bsky.social
Novelist. USA-born, but raised abroad. Married. //
Insta @j.ellenhall // www.jwellenhall.com // My Weekly Cozy Sci-Fi Comedy series (with once a month writing insights) is at jwellenhallnovelist.substack.com
Insta @j.ellenhall // www.jwellenhall.com // My Weekly Cozy Sci-Fi Comedy series (with once a month writing insights) is at jwellenhallnovelist.substack.com
These little moments make my heart so full 💗
🧵Spotted at an A&P Show in Aotearoa New Zealand:
A tiny human (2?) has spotted a pen of puppies.
Studying them for a long moment, she bursts into tears.
Dad asks what's wrong and looking up at him in abject anguish she wails: "I WANT TO PAT THEM ALL!" (1)
A tiny human (2?) has spotted a pen of puppies.
Studying them for a long moment, she bursts into tears.
Dad asks what's wrong and looking up at him in abject anguish she wails: "I WANT TO PAT THEM ALL!" (1)
November 24, 2025 at 1:32 PM
These little moments make my heart so full 💗
📣 Good news!
Our inbox has re-opened.
Can't wait to read all of your query submissions!
Our inbox has re-opened.
Can't wait to read all of your query submissions!
September 3, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Dear #writingcommunity:
If I can’t see character goals in the first 3 pages, I’m 99% likely to put the book down.
I can forgive nearly anything else…here’s why:
If I can’t see character goals in the first 3 pages, I’m 99% likely to put the book down.
I can forgive nearly anything else…here’s why:
July 12, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Dear #writingcommunity:
If I can’t see character goals in the first 3 pages, I’m 99% likely to put the book down.
I can forgive nearly anything else…here’s why:
If I can’t see character goals in the first 3 pages, I’m 99% likely to put the book down.
I can forgive nearly anything else…here’s why:
If you’re neurodivergent & struggling with #revisions, this post is for you:
open.substack.com/pub/jwellenh...
open.substack.com/pub/jwellenh...
June 28, 2025 at 4:44 PM
If you’re neurodivergent & struggling with #revisions, this post is for you:
open.substack.com/pub/jwellenh...
open.substack.com/pub/jwellenh...
This guy is honestly one of the best things on instagram 🏳️🌈 @dnlfoxx
June 28, 2025 at 4:42 PM
This guy is honestly one of the best things on instagram 🏳️🌈 @dnlfoxx
I know l'm not the only one asking "how can I make a book revision system that works with my brain that thinks in spirals instead of straight lines?" So I studied a ton of craft until I finally made a new flexible system that I can easily tweak for any book. open.substack.com/pub/jwellenh...
Step 1: Revise Your Novel with Me! ➡️ Monthly Guide to Developmental Edits for Neurodivergents
Even if you've never fully revised a book before, or if you just hate the way you've been doing it so far, you are welcome here 😁Find options that work for you.
open.substack.com
June 27, 2025 at 3:19 PM
I know l'm not the only one asking "how can I make a book revision system that works with my brain that thinks in spirals instead of straight lines?" So I studied a ton of craft until I finally made a new flexible system that I can easily tweak for any book. open.substack.com/pub/jwellenh...
Pretty sure I found the secret to Douglas Adams’ writing technique buried inside this book 😂
open.substack.com/pub/jwellenh...
open.substack.com/pub/jwellenh...
Review of Life, The Universe, & Everything by Douglas Adams
HHGTTG Book 3: All the best bits 😂
open.substack.com
June 6, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Pretty sure I found the secret to Douglas Adams’ writing technique buried inside this book 😂
open.substack.com/pub/jwellenh...
open.substack.com/pub/jwellenh...
May 25, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Seriously, this was the funniest & most intriguing history lesson on the “real Josephine” that I have ever read 😂
Queens of Infamy: Josephine Bonaparte, from Malmaison to More-Than-Monarch longreads.com/2019/04/04/q...
Queens of Infamy: Josephine Bonaparte, from Malmaison to More-Than-Monarch longreads.com/2019/04/04/q...
Queens of Infamy: Josephine Bonaparte, from Malmaison to More-Than-Monarch - Longreads
In fraught games of power politics, sometimes the best revenge is not being exiled to die alone on an island in the South Atlantic.
longreads.com
May 25, 2025 at 7:36 AM
Seriously, this was the funniest & most intriguing history lesson on the “real Josephine” that I have ever read 😂
Queens of Infamy: Josephine Bonaparte, from Malmaison to More-Than-Monarch longreads.com/2019/04/04/q...
Queens of Infamy: Josephine Bonaparte, from Malmaison to More-Than-Monarch longreads.com/2019/04/04/q...
It’s free laughs. For you. Right now.
My quirky Sci-Fi can be read online right now with no downloads required.
Bastard aliens hiding in plain sight…as CATS?
Oh yeah 👀
#read
My quirky Sci-Fi can be read online right now with no downloads required.
Bastard aliens hiding in plain sight…as CATS?
Oh yeah 👀
#read
April 25, 2025 at 4:02 PM
It’s free laughs. For you. Right now.
My quirky Sci-Fi can be read online right now with no downloads required.
Bastard aliens hiding in plain sight…as CATS?
Oh yeah 👀
#read
My quirky Sci-Fi can be read online right now with no downloads required.
Bastard aliens hiding in plain sight…as CATS?
Oh yeah 👀
#read
It’s coming tomorrow! The grand finale of my comedy season 2 will be up on my substack and available to read for free 🥳👽 link in the bio or get ready to hit up jwellenhallnovelist.substack.com #aliencat #scificomics
April 24, 2025 at 5:45 PM
It’s coming tomorrow! The grand finale of my comedy season 2 will be up on my substack and available to read for free 🥳👽 link in the bio or get ready to hit up jwellenhallnovelist.substack.com #aliencat #scificomics
You may think you picked the cat…but what if it picked you?
Meet my alien cats in the Comedy “The Intergalacticizen’s Guide to Taming Earthlings” - free to read this Friday! at jwellenhallnovelist.substack.com check it out @rhi.bsky.social @erinmorgenstern.bsky.social @inkandmagic.bsky.social 😁
Meet my alien cats in the Comedy “The Intergalacticizen’s Guide to Taming Earthlings” - free to read this Friday! at jwellenhallnovelist.substack.com check it out @rhi.bsky.social @erinmorgenstern.bsky.social @inkandmagic.bsky.social 😁
April 23, 2025 at 5:20 PM
You may think you picked the cat…but what if it picked you?
Meet my alien cats in the Comedy “The Intergalacticizen’s Guide to Taming Earthlings” - free to read this Friday! at jwellenhallnovelist.substack.com check it out @rhi.bsky.social @erinmorgenstern.bsky.social @inkandmagic.bsky.social 😁
Meet my alien cats in the Comedy “The Intergalacticizen’s Guide to Taming Earthlings” - free to read this Friday! at jwellenhallnovelist.substack.com check it out @rhi.bsky.social @erinmorgenstern.bsky.social @inkandmagic.bsky.social 😁
If you love #DouglasAdams, or #terrypratchett, or any silly witted story that explores the utter ridiculousness of the human race, then join me for a special launch of my series conclusion this Friday! You can read the whole thing for free on SubStack on that day. Link in bio
💙📚BookSky
💙📚BookSky
April 22, 2025 at 5:41 PM
If you love #DouglasAdams, or #terrypratchett, or any silly witted story that explores the utter ridiculousness of the human race, then join me for a special launch of my series conclusion this Friday! You can read the whole thing for free on SubStack on that day. Link in bio
💙📚BookSky
💙📚BookSky
To celebrate the release of my season 2 finale of this Sci-Fi Comedy, I’m dropping the paywall for 24 hours on Friday!
Everyone can read up to 21 episodes of the whole story for free. If you love #hhgttg or #residentaliensyfy then please come and check it out at jwellenhallnovelist.substack.com
Everyone can read up to 21 episodes of the whole story for free. If you love #hhgttg or #residentaliensyfy then please come and check it out at jwellenhallnovelist.substack.com
April 21, 2025 at 3:55 PM
To celebrate the release of my season 2 finale of this Sci-Fi Comedy, I’m dropping the paywall for 24 hours on Friday!
Everyone can read up to 21 episodes of the whole story for free. If you love #hhgttg or #residentaliensyfy then please come and check it out at jwellenhallnovelist.substack.com
Everyone can read up to 21 episodes of the whole story for free. If you love #hhgttg or #residentaliensyfy then please come and check it out at jwellenhallnovelist.substack.com
I want to see more writers embracing the series format again, & SubStack is actually a fantastic place to publish them & read them! Check out all these great #reads:
open.substack.com/pub/jwellenh...
open.substack.com/pub/jwellenh...
April 9, 2025 at 5:54 PM
I want to see more writers embracing the series format again, & SubStack is actually a fantastic place to publish them & read them! Check out all these great #reads:
open.substack.com/pub/jwellenh...
open.substack.com/pub/jwellenh...
New episode of my Sci-Fi Comedy is now live — the big fight!
💙📚bookSky
open.substack.com/pub/jwellenh...
💙📚bookSky
open.substack.com/pub/jwellenh...
April 3, 2025 at 4:58 PM
New episode of my Sci-Fi Comedy is now live — the big fight!
💙📚bookSky
open.substack.com/pub/jwellenh...
💙📚bookSky
open.substack.com/pub/jwellenh...
Now’s a great time to read my last Sci-Fi Comedy episode because a new one comes out this weekend!
open.substack.com/pub/jwellenh...
open.substack.com/pub/jwellenh...
March 26, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Now’s a great time to read my last Sci-Fi Comedy episode because a new one comes out this weekend!
open.substack.com/pub/jwellenh...
open.substack.com/pub/jwellenh...
Love these! What a great idea. Too bad my favorite sweaty mug is sold out 😢 (see snapshot)
March 3, 2025 at 7:27 AM
Love these! What a great idea. Too bad my favorite sweaty mug is sold out 😢 (see snapshot)
After attacking my writer’s block by baking 2 loaves of bread, making multiple library trips, & blasting Tinzo mixes (on YouTube)…this episode finally manifested!
Getting close to S2 finale of this sci-fi comedy 😀
open.substack.com/pub/jwellenh...
Getting close to S2 finale of this sci-fi comedy 😀
open.substack.com/pub/jwellenh...
Season 2 Episode 10
Cat fight: A wager for souls
open.substack.com
March 3, 2025 at 7:22 AM
After attacking my writer’s block by baking 2 loaves of bread, making multiple library trips, & blasting Tinzo mixes (on YouTube)…this episode finally manifested!
Getting close to S2 finale of this sci-fi comedy 😀
open.substack.com/pub/jwellenh...
Getting close to S2 finale of this sci-fi comedy 😀
open.substack.com/pub/jwellenh...
This makes me so happy for all the writers out there & the readers who love stories written …
by humans for humans 💙📚
by humans for humans 💙📚
Every major UK newspaper - left, right, broadsheet, tabloid - is running a front page campaign against copyright carveouts for AI training.
I can't remember the last time any political cause had such broad support, let alone one so anti-big tech and so economically consequential.
I can't remember the last time any political cause had such broad support, let alone one so anti-big tech and so economically consequential.
February 27, 2025 at 6:08 AM
This makes me so happy for all the writers out there & the readers who love stories written …
by humans for humans 💙📚
by humans for humans 💙📚
To all new #writers:
Please remember that quality matters. I don’t care how many people push for more posts, more books published, or more anything. There are a lot of readers who want to read great things, & yes, we can tell when you’ve spent a long time writing a thing…
& we ❤️you for it.
Please remember that quality matters. I don’t care how many people push for more posts, more books published, or more anything. There are a lot of readers who want to read great things, & yes, we can tell when you’ve spent a long time writing a thing…
& we ❤️you for it.
February 26, 2025 at 6:55 PM
To all new #writers:
Please remember that quality matters. I don’t care how many people push for more posts, more books published, or more anything. There are a lot of readers who want to read great things, & yes, we can tell when you’ve spent a long time writing a thing…
& we ❤️you for it.
Please remember that quality matters. I don’t care how many people push for more posts, more books published, or more anything. There are a lot of readers who want to read great things, & yes, we can tell when you’ve spent a long time writing a thing…
& we ❤️you for it.