J.R. Hardcastle

J.R. Hardcastle is a pen name. I write around a day job in an office. The Earth Run is my first novel.

This story began with a feeling I suspect a lot of people know: being useful in the wrong place, or invisible in the right one. It explores questions around what kinds of competence the world rewards and what kinds it overlooks; how belonging gets built when you've spent your life between two cultures and never quite at home in either; the quiet, persistent wish for something to happen that would call you out of an ordinary week and ask you to be useful.