The Writing Community Chat Show

This week we will be learning how Kristen Van Nest went from stand-up to writing & directing. Kristen Van Nest is a comedian, writer, actor, and director based in Los Angeles, CA. She's a House , Team performer at the Upright Citizens Brigade, is training with Lesly Kahn, and a Series Regular on The Chunky Zeta on Amazon Prime. She started her comedic career in Shanghai doing stand up and impr...

Femi Kayode is a Nigerian clinical psychologist, lawyer, essayist, poet and author. Kayode has spent the past twenty years working in advertising and has been the creator and writer of several TV shows that aired on Prime Time. In between, he went to the University of Southern California where he was a Packard Gates Fellow in Film. He was also a University of Washington Gates Fellow in Internation...

#TheIndieTakeover is a brand new feature brought to you by The Writing Community Chat Show. Each month, polls will run on social media to identify a genre the writing community would like to #read. Then, we look for authors in that chosen genre before finally selecting 4 authors in that genre to go head to head in a poll. The winner then gets an optional interview, a dedicated web page on TheWriti...

Author. Film producer. Underwater photographer. A storyteller at heart. Pier Nirandara is an #author, #filmproducer, and #underwaterphotographer. She began her career as Thailand’s youngest English-writing author of three #1 national bestselling novels, multiple graphic novels, and short stories with more than 200,000 copies sold in multiple languages. Since then, she has represented literary clie...

Jane Shemilt is an internationally-acclaimed, best-selling author of psychological suspense novels. Because of very annoying and frustrating technical difficulties, Jane was unable to join the show. Luckily, the brilliant Mario Dell'Olio ( https://t.co/d0hSUsiOke) joined and celebrated with me. We talked about his latest book, Leters From Italy, writing, life, music and more. There are lots to lea...

"What is even more incredible is that Sarah Turner has now had 3 number 1 Sunday Times bestsellers!" S09 E02 Sarah Turner, AKA The Unmumsy Mum, used her experiences and struggles as a mother to write a blog. That blog was a success. So many related to Sarahs reality, and many more were inspired by it. Soon after, Sarah started writing a book about motherhood. In 2018, she released The Unmumsy Mum,...

S9E01 Holly started her career at the Sunday Times, before moving to the Daily Telegraph. During six years at the Telegraph, she was the Whitehall Editor and jointly ran the investigations team. She then moved to work on the Guardian's investigations team. Holly has been nominated for a wide range of #journalism prizes, winning awards for her work on stories including MPs’ Expenses at the Telegrap...

ITS BOOK LAUNCH DAY!!!!! Louise was born and lives in South Wales, yes thats right, not actually far from host Chris Aggett! Louise studied English Literature at university and graduated with first class honours. As a teacher she tried to pass on her love of reading to her students (and discovered that the secret to successful teaching is… stickers! She is aware that that is, essentially, bribery....

S.P.O'Farrell returns to the show after his appearance in season 1! His #book Simone LaFray and the Chocolatiers' Ball has received some excellent praise and sits at 4.8 out of 5 after 95 ratings! It began as a short #story and quickly turned into an award-winning novel: Moonbeam Awards, New York City Big Book Award, Queer Indie Award, LitPick Award, (sm)art festivals award and a finalist for Book...

5 authors from the world of #TikTok, Instagram and YouTube will join me this Saturday at 8pm UK time. We will talk about all things #writing. Their genres span romance, erotica, #fantasy, horror, the paranormal and more! We will discuss all those things. Plus, we will try to answer questions that you may have during the live show. Main topics will include fantasy and the paranormal! Guest authors...

Author Sam Holland has always been fascinated with the dark and macabre. A fan of Stephen King, Dean Koontz and James Herbert. And a self-confessed serial killer nerd. Sam studied psychology at university, then spent the next few years working in HR, before quitting for a full-time career in writing. The Echo Man is the result. An incredible new thriller from an exciting new talent! ‘Utterly compe...

Aesthetic Press is a Full-Service Digital-First Independent #Publisher of commercial fiction Novels, Novelettes, & Anthologies. We specialize in Thrillers, Mysteries, Dark Fiction, and #books with Dark Humor, Anti-Heroes, & Compelling/Gritty Themes! 7 of their #authors will join me for this week's discussion show. We will discuss what it is like to work for such a company. We will talk wri...

Chandler Bolt is an investor, the CEO of Self-Publishing School & SelfPublishing.com , and the author of 7 bestselling #books, including his most recent book, Published. Self-Publishing School is an INC 5000 company, the last 3 years in a row, as one of the 5,000 fastest-growing private companies in the US. Chandler is also the host of the 7 Figure Principles Podcast and the Self-Publishing Sc...

Kasim Ali works at Penguin Random House and has previously been shortlisted for Hachette’s Mo Siewcherran Prize, longlisted for the 4th Estate BAME Short Story Prize, and has contributed to The Good Journal. He comes from Birmingham and now lives in London. His book, GOOD INTENTIONS, was released early this month and has had lots of amazing praise. You can see some of that praise below and the blu...

This day marks the two year birthday of The Writing Community Chat Show! There have been nearly 190 episodes where we learn about the guests, their life stories and find out what works for them in the world of writing. To celebrate this, I am joined by the incredible magician Pete Heat! “THE ROCK & ROLL MAGICIAN” – NME. I have been on the other side of his magic before, virtually during lockdo...

The amazing Tina Baker is back! We were lucky to have her on the show way back a year ago! In fact 363 days ago! What are the odds! She is back with a brand new book. And, as we have had her rise to writing story before, she is bringing with her some stories and some topics to chat about. Who knows what will happen?! I spoke to Tina, the TV presenter, soap queen, fitness instructor and author, abo...

Happy World Book Day! But what is world book day and where did it come from? In this mini bonus episode you can find out. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-writing-community-chat-show--5445493/support . Get full access to 📚The’s Substack at thewccs.substack.com/subscribe Connect With The Community 🏆 Ranked #3 Writing Podcast in the UK (2025) The WCCS is mor...

Sarah’s obsession for 80s action movies, 90s thrillers (and Buffy), and a morbid curiosity about the darker ages of history, bleeds into her writing. As well as screenwriting for both TV and film she is the #author of over twenty novels in the YA and psychological thriller genres and has been published by Simon & Schuster, Hachette, Harper Collins and Pan Macmillan. Her books have sold hundred...

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Linda Rainier is an indie author and a big part of the Twitter Writing Community! She has been a fan of this show for some time and we consider her one of the family! She is funny, tenacious and determined! After a guest timining mixup, Linda was a superstar who stepped up to save the show! WE THANK YOU LINDA! Her books EMMAS FURY is one of two books by Linda, with a third on the way. EMMAS FURY:...

This week we learn the story of historian, author, and academic writing tutor at the V&A, Imperial College and the Royal College of Art, #MatsonTaylor. Matson is the #author of #TheMiseducationofEvieEpworth and All About Evie. The Miseducation of Evie Epworth is the Bestselling Richard & Judy Book Club Pick which has had over 1500 reviews on Amazon! ABOUT: The Bestselling Richard & Judy Summer Boo...

Longlisted for the Guardian's Not the Booker Prize and described by British bookshop chain Waterstones as: "an exciting new voice in crime fiction", Eve Smith's debut novel The Waiting Rooms was shortlisted for the Bridport Prize First Novel Award and was selected as a Book of the Month in The Guardian just after launch. "Smith combines the excitement of a medical thriller à la Michael Crichton wi...

Hannah King is a thriller #author from Ireland. She and I is Hannah's first novel. Part #psychologicalthriller & part #crimenovel, the story is set in a small town in Northern Ireland. This well rated #Book has already been snapped up. Optioned for TV! SHE AND I: 'Not only beautifully written but gripping and full of soul' SARAH PEARSE, author of THE SANATORIUM 'King really understands suspense' H...

JL Butler is the pseudonym for the Sunday Times #bestselling #author #TasminaPerry. Her debut thriller Mine has been optioned by Sony Pictures and is in development with Original Film. Tasmina has released 13 books, becoming a Sunday times best seller and has had her novels translated into 20 plus languages and has sold over 2 million copies! Visit her website here: https://www.tasminaperry.com/jl...

Bryan Collins is a nonfiction author, the editor of Become a Writer Today and a columnist for #Forbes.  At becomeawritertoday.com, Bryan offers new writers practical advice about #writing, creativity, productivity and more. His work has also appeared on Fast Company, #Lifehacker and Copyblogger. We will find out just what motivates Bryan to help others and how exactly he got into writing in the fi...