Welcone.

Hello. I'm James Thomas. Many know me as Astonishing Sod. 

I'm a writer, dealing primarily in humour, with a taste for the baroque, the disorienting, the absurd, and the unexpected. Here are some things of mine: 
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  • Why the Long Joke?, St. Martin’s Press, 2016: my first book, a collection of humour writing 
  • HUMUOR, issue 1, 2016: a comedy zine in the style of Army Man and the National Lampoon 
  • The New Yorker, Shouts & Murmurs, since 2014: How to Write a Sentence; So You Found A...; I Wrote an Open Letter, But the Words Fell Out; Hieronymus Bosch’s Lost Masterpiece 
  • Crimer Show, 2013-14: the first and only serialised drama, and comedy, on Twitter. A satirical “show” in text, 5 days a week, for 150 weeks 
  • Twitter dot com, since 2008: over 50 Twitter accounts, dealing in various strands of humour and drama. Notably: Terbil Draems, Crimer Show, Goggl Serch... 

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Agent.

Natalie Galustian, DHH Literary Agency.  
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