Janina Matthewson

If I need to go to the hospital for some reason I just tell them my name and where I live and whatnot and then there’s simply no paperwork!

I feel like all you need to do to get people properly In the streets over healthcare now is to tell them how little admin you have to do about it when it’s free

Based on how many Americans I’ve seen posting their insane insurance price increases over the last couple of weeks, this is a fabulous time for him to be in the news a lot

I think also that the state of things generally leads to people being just quite overwhelmed a lot of the time and the way that interacts with parenting maybe encourages shortcuts

The problem is, putting your mind to things is so much harder than anyone lets on

One of my go to comfort films honestly

One time the theatre I worked at did simultaneous matching productions of Hamlet and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead – it was extremely cool, although it nigh on killed the actors that played R and G

Not anywhere close to Tom Stoppard's greatest achievement, but Shakespeare In Love is the only Fiction About Shakespeare I can stand at all, and I adore it beyond words.
He was a genius. Can't believe he's gone and died on my birthday.

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!'

I Have No Plan For This Do I still have the capacity to form and communicate thoughts? Let's find out.

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

Calamity's Trinket

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

BBC Radio 4 - Drama on 4, The Missed Lives of Max and Judy (1/2) A mind-bending, time-warping romcom starring Alison Steadman.

There's the two part meta physical romcom I wrote last year for Radio 4

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

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

Within the Wires — Night Vale Presents Found audio from an alternate universe. Written by Jeffrey Cranor and Janina Matthewson.

There's the audio drama we write in the same universe, currently in its 10th and final season
www.nightvalepresents.com/withinthewires

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...

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, ...

If you like fun romance at the beach there's my first romcom
uk.bookshop.org/p/books/beac...

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

If you like small time drama with simmering tension amid an apocalypse, there's my most recent book
uk.bookshop.org/a/12039/9781...

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...

If you like something fanciful and strange, there's my first ever book
uk.bookshop.org/a/12039/9780...

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

As it operates currently it is not an industry that invests in people over the long term – not editing staff, not authors

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

Sobbing in my coffee xx

tyty

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!'

I Have No Plan For This Do I still have the capacity to form and communicate thoughts? Let's find out.

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

Calamity's Trinket

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

BBC Radio 4 - Drama on 4, The Missed Lives of Max and Judy (1/2) A mind-bending, time-warping romcom starring Alison Steadman.

There's the two part meta physical romcom I wrote last year for Radio 4

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

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

Within the Wires — Night Vale Presents Found audio from an alternate universe. Written by Jeffrey Cranor and Janina Matthewson.

There's the audio drama we write in the same universe, currently in its 10th and final season
www.nightvalepresents.com/withinthewires

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...