The Writing Community Chat Show

How to write 'Mad, sad and funny' with author Bobby Palmer. Bobby Palmer is the author of the Saturday Times bestselling novel Isaac And The Egg. His writing has appeared in GQ, Esquire, Men's Health, Time Out, Cosmopolitan and More. He is also co-host of the Book Chat podcast with Pandora Sykes! You can find a link to that, and his book below. Book chat: https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/book-...

Vicky is a British author, teacher & story coach. She lives on the Kent coast, with her crazy cockerpoo. She is passionate about the power of stories to inspire and change lives. Vicky grew up in a sleepy village outside Chichester in West Sussex. At seventeen, she swapped green fields and mud for city pavements, and studied French & German in London. After working in sales and fundraising...

Join us for an in-depth conversation with bestselling author Dom Nolan as we delve into the world of his novel "Vine Street." Set in the gritty streets of Los Angeles, this intense thriller follows a former detective as he unravels a web of corruption and violence that threatens to consume the city. Hear from Nolan himself as he discusses the inspiration behind the book and the challenges of bring...

Tales of crime, fantasy, the strange, oh... and Christmas! With AK Benedict. A K Benedict read English at Cambridge and Creative Writing at the University of Sussex. She writes in a room filled with mannequins, clowns and teapots. Her debut novel, The Beauty of Murder (Orion), was shortlisted for an eDunnit award and is in development for an 8-part TV series. Her second novel, Jonathan Dark or The...

Welcome to the Writing Community Chat Show, where we celebrate and elevate the voices of the writing community on Twitter. Hosted by Chris and Chris, this show is our way of thanking the brilliant, welcoming, and supportive community that helped us during our own writing journeys. Each episode, we interview bestselling authors and indie writers alike, sharing their advice, insights, and stories to...

Author Tim Glister talks spy books, writing and life, on The WCCS. This weeks guest is author Tim Glister. Tim spent his career working behind the scenes for some of the world’s most famous and infamous brands, and his free time reading spy novels and espionage histories. RED CORONA, the first Richard Knox Spy Thriller, is set at the dawn of the surveillance age with modern resonances about privac...

This is a bonus WCCS chat show! We invited #ChrisMcDonald back onto the show to celebrate the release of his new book, #LittleGhost. Chris McDonald is the author A Wash of Black, the first in the DI Erika Piper series, as well as Whispers In The Dark and Stonebridge Mysteries. He has also recently dabbled in writing cosy crimes, as a remedy for the darkness. LITTLE GHOST: Irving Ash is a private i...

Gytha Lodge is a multi-award-winning playwright, novelist and writer for video games and screen. She is also a single parent who blogs about the ridiculousness of bringing up a mega-nerd small boy. She has a profound addiction to tea, crosswords and awful puns. She studied English at Cambridge, where she became known quite quickly for her brand of twisty, dark yet entertaining drama. She later too...

Sophie Flynn is a Cotswolds based psychological thriller author with an MA in Creative Writing from Oxford Brookes. Her debut novel ALL MY LIES (SImon & Schuster, 2021) was hailed 'a real page-turner' by Sophie Hannah. Her latest novel, KEEP THEM CLOSE (Hera, 2022) was called 'A splendidly twisty psychological mystery' by the Daily Mail. Alongside writing, Sophie is the Head of Marketing at Je...

This Friday at 8pm UK time, The WCCS will go live with author Stephen J Golds. Stephen J Golds was born in London, U.K, but has lived in Japan for most of his adult life. He enjoys spending time with his daughters, reading books, traveling, boxing and listening to old Soul LPs. His novels are Say Goodbye When I’m Gone (Red Dog Press) Always the Dead (Close to the Bone) Poems for Ghosts in Empty Te...

Season 10 is here and we have many awesome authors already lined up. Just look below at some of the new features! It is going to be a good one! The show is also returning to a Friday. So, expect drinks, laughter, and fun. This episode will go through the new features and show off our first designs for the first Chris Vs Chris book cover challenge. Our first guest of the #Fridaynightchatshow is #Wi...

Elizabeth Winthrop Alsop is the author of more than 60 works of fiction for all ages. She is the winner of the Dorothy Canfield Fisher Award, the Pen Syndicated Fiction Award. Elizabeth has written books for children of all ages (The Castle In The Attic, Counting on Grace, Dumpy La Rue), novels for adults (In My Mother’s House and Island Justice), short stories (Bad News and The Golden Darters ant...

Chris Aggett will be joined by author Kaitlyn Deann and co. As a writer, Kaitlyn hopes to keep a reader turning pages late into the night and give them something to think about long after they finish the last page. Her debut novel, THE WITCHES’ SLEEP, has won the Gold Medal for Readers’ Favorite 2013 Annual Book Contest under the Fiction – Paranormal genre. Book one in her new dystopian fantasy ro...

Ruth joined the Army in February 1987 as an Analyst in the Intelligence Corps. She predominantly served in B.A.O.R. and Northern Ireland during ‘the troubles’ where she received a commendation from the Prime Minister of the time John Major. Ruth was investigated by the S.I.B. for being a Lesbian (having short hair and playing hockey seemed to be all the evidence needed) and although no evidence wa...

Terry Whenham is the man behind Terrys Tours, the podcast Tales From The Battlefield, and has raised over £60,000 for charity. Terry helps people find their connection between their family tree and the stories of WW1 and beyond. He has completed The ABF Soldiers Charity Frontline Walk many times and continues to support those looking to sign up, and kindly takes people on battlefield tours and sha...

The WCCS welcomes back #KristofferPolaha and #AnnaGomez. Thier second book in The #FromKonawithLove series. Where the Sun Rises is out on the 11th of October and has already been quoted as "a modern-day Romeo and Juliet." We get deep into a co working author relationship and BREAKING #FromKonaWithLove movie news! You can find their brand new book here: https://amzn.to/3UPVDbs The From Kona with Lo...

This week, The WCCS welcomes back #KristofferPolaha and #AnnaGomez. Thier second book in The #FromKonawithLove series. Where the Sun Rises is out on the 11th of October and has already been quoted as "a modern-day Romeo and Juliet." You can find their brand new book here: https://amzn.to/3UPVDbs And you can find the link for Thursday's show here: https://youtu.be/GKhBSTCMYyE The From Kona with Lov...

Queer indie and The WCCS have joined forces for the second year running to bring you a virtual show for the Brooklyn Book Festival. It will be an interactive, live-streamed panel regarding the use of story as a tool to illuminate the invisible. Topics will include narrative explorations of death and grief, literary treatments of trauma and tragedy, writing as reflection, and approaches to diversit...

Kirsten Miller is an outstanding feminist author in the YA and children’s space, who spent twenty-five years as a strategist in the advertising industry. During that time, she worked for some of the largest agencies in the world. She’s proud to have quit a senior job at one of the most famous ad agencies in America over an ad that’s described in The Change. The Change is her first adult novel. The...

Today, while training for The Frontline Walk 2022, I finished the audiobook, All quiet on The Western Front. Written by Erich Maria Remarque and wonderfully narrated by Tom Lawrence. I listened to this audiobook whist training for The ABF Soldiers Charity Frontline Walk. As I write this, in just over 2 weeks, I will be walking along The Western Front of WW1. It is a 100k charity walk from the Loch...

Stacy Nycole Hawks is the author of Dividing Ridge: the Unsolved Murder of Elva Brannock an NC Literary Map novel & NC Society of Historians award-winning book for Excellence. Dividing Ridge is about a young woman's disappearance & murder along the Blue Ridge Parkway in 1937 in Alleghany County, NC. Her second novel is titled Devils Ridge & tells the story of a moonshine/rum-running ga...

From #traditionallypublished to independently #published with Colette Dartford. Colette Dartford writes contemporary fiction with compelling emotional themes. Her debut novel, Learning To Speak American, was shortlisted for the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award and published by Bonnier Zaffre. Her second novel, An Unsuitable Marriage, was a Kindle #bestseller for over 18 months. In addition to her n...

Twists, turns & mind games. Lexie Elliot on The WCCS. Lexie Elliott was born in 1976 and grew up in Scotland, at the foot of the Highlands. Her first attempt at a book came in primary school, and featured a horse; sadly, that manuscript has been lost. She attended a local state high school, Dunblane High School, and spent much of her teenaged years reading and swimming. In 1994 she began a Phy...

​Terry Geo wrote and directed his first play at age eleven. At sixteen, he started work in television, writing scripts and becoming the youngest director in the country. After a short stint in a boyband, Terry went back to #writing, editing two national publications. He toured the world as an actor, moved to London, and in 2017, wrote and directed an award-nominated musical for the London stage. T...

How to write inclusively, with #Inclusive AF author Jen O'Ryan. Dr. Jen O’Ryan is a #diversity and inclusion strategist focused on helping people build authentically inclusive and welcoming companies. She brings a unique perspective to organizational change, combining a Ph. D. in Human Behavior with over 20 years of experience in leading global launches of new consumer experiences, products and po...