J.P. Priestley (James Paxton Priestley) is studying for a Bachelor of Arts Honours degree in Creative Writing at Aberystwyth University in Wales.
His main fiction genre interests include folklore, fantasy, speculative fiction, haunting texts, and horror (especially folk horror). He also has a keen interest in creative non-fiction, particularly popular science. He is currently conducting research for the publication of his own popular science book. James has established a recording studio in his home so he may soon start to offer voice acting services through his voices.com account.
James has a particular interest in the works of the Welsh author and mystic Arthur Machen (1863-1947), best known for his influential supernatural, fantasy, and horror fiction; Irish writer Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-1873), a creator of Gothic tales, mystery novels, and horror fiction; and English writer Algernon Henry Blackwood (1869-1951), a broadcasting narrator, journalist, novelist and short story writer, considered by many to have been among the most prolific ghost story writers in the genre’s history. Other significant writing influences are the authors Shirley Jackson, Susan Hill, Angela Carter, and Neil Gaiman.
With a therapy background in Ericksonian Clinical Hypnosis, Cognitive Psychotherapy and Neuro-Linguistic Programming, James is also an experienced freelance copyeditor and proofreader. Personal pronouns: He/Him.
February, 2024.
