The Tricky Genre BLOG
Names and Games
Do you know your Argonne from your Ulm? What does a patio paving stone have to do with a distant planet? Join Jess, our illustrator, on a quick tour around some of the toponymns from jjhudsson’s philosophical sci-fi EPUB Other Places Which Also Are the World’s End.
Biblio-mythology
The staff of the Tricky Genre Press have been wrestling with an editorial problem. How do you refer to a book that has never been written? Our solution: make-up a new word!
Nea-LY, but not quite
In this post we look at some of the marginalia found as we deciphered the MS of jjhudsson’s recent EPUB novel, Other Places Which Also Are the World’s End.
Trick of the tale
The Tricky Genre Press is delighted to announce the e-publication of jjhudsson's novel, Other Places Which Also Are the World's End . Read how an egg, T.S. Eliot and an Icelandic takeaway unlock the mysteries of the tale, and also give our Press its name.
Message in a bottle
Part 2 of our series of ‘recently re/dis-covered’ Horthólary archive is a real gem. It is a letter, or note, in Horthólary’s own hand, addressed to Félix Gélis, the young Sénéchal of Pessane.
A Leaf out of a book
A recent tidy-up around the Tricky Genre Press uncovered two ‘lost’ autographs belonging to Horthólary. In the first of two blogs we look at each.
Tomb it may concern
We were delighted to receive a letter all the way from the Weekday Islands, requesting a photograph of the tombstone of Professor Horthólary.
The Maps of Maladie
jjhudsson likes to work off real maps. He says that unless he has that authentic, vintage, crinkly-paper feel he can’t write about a place authentically.
Cover Story
We’re excited to have received the first set of covers for the updated Horthólary series - The Lays of Maladie.
Who is Horthólary?
This is a question we are often asked. We’re working on jjhudsson to add a short preface to the Lays of Maladie collection. In the meantime, heres’ a potted biography.
About jjhudsson
Keen-eyed followers of the Tricky Genre Press website have noted that there is no jjhudsson on the ‘About Us’ page.
Tricky by Name
Welcome to The Tricky Genre Press, home of weird storyteller jjhudsson. If you’re interested in genre-defying stories about eighteenth-century sleuths, witchcraft, giants, creatures from other planets, viking raiders, dragons, early rockets, interstellar travel and stuff like that, then you’re going to like it here.