Jude Austin

I've been writing since I was very young, mostly on 'books' I made from taking a wad of Post-It notes.

I finished my first big writing project when I was 11; it was a novel-length fanfiction featuring most of the Marines from Aliens, and written when I was on the train home from a school trip to York, so naturally it became known as "The York story." I still have most of it and reread it when I need a good giggle at my 11-year-old writing skills.

I'm a staunch supporter of fanfiction and still dabble in it occasionally under the penname JudasFm. I live and work in Chiba, Japan, and spend most of my time listening to YouTube, writing, reading and binge-watching Hulu and Netflix. Sometimes I scuba dive and dance the hula, although not at the same time.

I have an Author Newsletter called Stuff! where I do deep dives into old-style adventure games, mostly by Sierra and LucasArts, and rip apart their stories from a writer's point of view. Occasionally, I even write about writing and other, well, stuff.