Janina Matthewson
@j9andif.bsky.social
Writer. Tired. Romcoms as Georgie Tilney.
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!
December 1, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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
December 1, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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
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
November 30, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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
One of my go to comfort films honestly
November 30, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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
November 29, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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
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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!'
November 24, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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!'
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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
ihavenoplanforthis.ghost.io
I Have No Plan For This
Do I still have the capacity to form and communicate thoughts? Let's find out.
ihavenoplanforthis.ghost.io
November 24, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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
ihavenoplanforthis.ghost.io
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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
calamitystrinket.ghost.io
Calamity's Trinket
calamitystrinket.ghost.io
November 24, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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
calamitystrinket.ghost.io
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There's the two part meta physical romcom I wrote last year for Radio 4
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Radio 4 - Drama on 4, The Missed Lives of Max and Judy (1/2)
A mind-bending, time-warping romcom starring Alison Steadman.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 24, 2025 at 10:59 AM
There's the two part meta physical romcom I wrote last year for Radio 4
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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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
historyissexy.com
History Is Sexy
historyissexy.com
November 24, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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
historyissexy.com
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There's the audio drama we write in the same universe, currently in its 10th and final season
www.nightvalepresents.com/withinthewires
www.nightvalepresents.com/withinthewires
Within the Wires — Night Vale Presents
Found audio from an alternate universe. Written by Jeffrey Cranor and Janina Matthewson.
www.nightvalepresents.com
November 24, 2025 at 10:56 AM
There's the audio drama we write in the same universe, currently in its 10th and final season
www.nightvalepresents.com/withinthewires
www.nightvalepresents.com/withinthewires
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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...
www.amazon.co.uk/You-Feel-Jus...
You Feel It Just Below the Ribs (Audio Download): Janina Matthewson, Jeffrey Cranor, Kirsten Potter, W. F. Howes Ltd: Amazon.co.uk: Books
You Feel It Just Below the Ribs (Audio Download): Janina Matthewson, Jeffrey Cranor, Kirsten Potter, W. F. Howes Ltd: Amazon.co.uk: Books
www.amazon.co.uk
November 24, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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...
www.amazon.co.uk/You-Feel-Jus...
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If you like fun romance at the beach there's my first romcom
uk.bookshop.org/p/books/beac...
uk.bookshop.org/p/books/beac...
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, ...
uk.bookshop.org
November 24, 2025 at 10:54 AM
If you like fun romance at the beach there's my first romcom
uk.bookshop.org/p/books/beac...
uk.bookshop.org/p/books/beac...
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If you like small time drama with simmering tension amid an apocalypse, there's my most recent book
uk.bookshop.org/a/12039/9781...
uk.bookshop.org/a/12039/9781...
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
uk.bookshop.org
November 24, 2025 at 10:53 AM
If you like small time drama with simmering tension amid an apocalypse, there's my most recent book
uk.bookshop.org/a/12039/9781...
uk.bookshop.org/a/12039/9781...
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If you like something fanciful and strange, there's my first ever book
uk.bookshop.org/a/12039/9780...
uk.bookshop.org/a/12039/9780...
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...
uk.bookshop.org
November 24, 2025 at 10:52 AM
If you like something fanciful and strange, there's my first ever book
uk.bookshop.org/a/12039/9780...
uk.bookshop.org/a/12039/9780...
As it operates currently it is not an industry that invests in people over the long term – not editing staff, not authors
November 24, 2025 at 6:30 PM
As it operates currently it is not an industry that invests in people over the long term – not editing staff, not authors
Sobbing in my coffee xx
November 24, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Sobbing in my coffee xx
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!'
November 24, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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!'