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James Wright

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Born

in London, The United Kingdom

Website

https://www.amazon.com/author/jamescwright

Genre

Horror, Humor and Comedy, Philosophy

Member Since

December 2024

URL

https://www.goodreads.com/jameswritesurprisingly

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James Wright is a British author of genre fiction, mostly focusing on horror and comedy. He has published two books so far, with plans to release many more!
He is also a Librarian who specialises in book repair, you can find him wandering the shelves looking for interesting covers and novels in need of some tlc.
James is present on multiple social media platforms under the name JamesWriteSurprisingly, including: Threads, Bluesky, Instagram, Youtube & Tiktok follow him there for writing updates and lots of library content!
In his spare time, James watches lots of horror films, and especially loves comedy horror. He also plays board games and writes articles on wrestling, basically he's just a big ol' nerd!

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	Friends With Death (Life With Death #1) 4.32 avg rating — 22 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Confessions of a Demonically Possessed Librarian (Depletion #1) 4.25 avg rating — 12 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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James Wright's Blog: James Writes

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So greetings, I finally managed to get a verified author account on this site, hurray!

Before now my books were attributed to the poet James Wright, who has been dead for about 40 years, so I don't think he had a hand in writing them!

I struggle with doing big tasks, and when I do it all seems to come in a wave, so now not only have I done this, I also made a Youtube channel for my publishing and li Read more of this blog post »

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Published on December 11, 2024 09:44 • Tags: librarian, new-account, novel, youtube

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