The Writing Community Chat Show

Lucie Whitehouse is the author of The House at Midnight. The Bed I Made & Before We Met & most recently Risk of Harm! Lucie was born in Gloucestershire, England, in 1975. She read Classics at Oxford University and worked in publishing while writing her own first novel  She now lives in Brooklyn, New York, with her husband and daughter. RISK OF HARM is being called the most gripping British crime t...

TANWEER DAR! Author. Artist. Poet. He writes mostly Cyberpunk. He studied Ancient & Medieval History at university and is a qualified teacher. He has written 9 works across multiple genres. Including fantasy, poetry, non fiction and children's books. Including novellas, novellas and short stories. His latest book is called In the Heart of the Void and was released in July 2021. IN THE HEART OF THE...

RYAN WILSON spent a decade teaching English after attending university and then completed a post-graduate teaching qualification. He taught in schools in Essex and London and made it to assistant headteacher. He then studied for a master's in Broadcast Journalism. He worked on Good Morning Britain and ITV News and spent the night in a leisure center in Wakefield for ITV on election night in 2017....

Louise Beech released her first book in 2015 and since then has released 6 more! Number 7 is called THIS IS HOW WE ARE HUMAN.  When the mother of an autistic young man hires a call girl to make him happy, three lives collide in unexpected and moving ways … changing everything. A devastatingly beautiful, rich and thought-provoking novel that will warm and break your heart… We were lucky enough to m...

I was joined by the best selling TM LOGAN! The author who has sold over 1 MILLION BOOKS! What an incredible achievement. His books are published in 21 countries around the world including France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Poland, the USA, South Korea, Germany, Hungary, Serbia, Romania, Greece and the Netherlands.  He was also a national newspaper journalist before turning to novel-writing full time....

Horror author Julie L. Kusma joins The Writing Community Chat show for the start of season 7! How time fly's! Julie is a speculative fiction author, and pens paranormal, supernatural, and horror short stories on her website, epistolary style pieces for a collaborative website https://thedearjletters.wordpress.com , and records several of her stories as audios short available on her YouTube channel...

The panel show is back, by popular demand! This is the final show of season 6 and it will no doubt go out with a bang... and beer! Indie authors Conor Bredin and Anna Mocikat will face off as team captains..... wait, wait.... no they wont! It has become team #Wasconor. Team Was conor is now captained by the awesome Marcus Ako and supported by Halo Scott and Anya Pavell! Cyber Squad is captained by...

Rabbit Hole: The new masterpiece from the Sunday Times number one bestseller. The last interview of season 6 lands on Mark Billingham. We were luckily enough to be in his presence at The Harrogate Crime Writers Festival. Unfortunately, for me, I was blissfully aware that I was stood 2 foot away from him near the bar and was too busy chatting! Well now I have my chance. I will have the time to dig...

We are joined by psychological thriller and crime writer ALICE HUNTER! Her book at the time of writing this is 10 weeks young with over 4,700 ratings! She's also made the Official UK Top 50 print chart, #1 #AppleBooks, #1 Kobo and #5 #Amazon. This alone is worth asking her about! How does someone get there and how do they feel when they do? This episode will be very insightful and interesting for...

Nadine Matheson joins us on the show to talk about her book The Jigsaw Man, writing and probably our warp speed interview from the Harrogate Crime Writers Festival! We had a great laugh at the Harrogate fest and we expect a similar vibe in this interview. Nadine is a crime writer from the UK and has no doubt lent on her experience as a criminal solicitor. In 2016, she won the City University Crime...

Hello! We apologies for out Podcast absence. We have been away "Networking" at the Harrogate Crime Writers Festival! There is a special vlog hitting our YouTube channel tomorrow the 29th of July 2021 at 8pm UK time. It is a premier video, meaning that we can all watch it together and comment about it together too. Please join in and have some Friday fun. You even get to see Right Chris in the show...

WHAT! The Harrogate festival is upon us! The Chris's are heading to the Harrogate Crime Writers Festival! And to celebrate we are hosting a panel show special! Just two days before we pack our bags and get on the road, we are going to face a team made up of authors attending the event. Author Will Carver will captain the team. He will bring two fellow authors to battle Team WCCS. Team WCCS will be...

THE PANEL SHOW IS BACK! After the success of PSO1 we had to bring this format back! After the destruction of Team Dale, we will be faced by another team that will try and take us down! The Qi team is made up for the members of Qi - Queer indie group. They are a group of self published authors that really support others in the LGBTQ community AND its allies. They have created a fantastic website an...

Ellen's book, The Tsarina's Daughter has been highly praised: "Astonishing...the ultimate Cinderella story [that] makes Game of Thrones look like a nursery rhyme." --Daisy Goodwin, bestselling author of The Fortune Hunter The Blurb: When they took everything from her, they didn't count on her fighting to get it back... Born into the House of Romanov to the all-powerful Peter the Great and Catherin...

This is our first ever The WCCS Panel Show! We will be battling with team Self Publishing with Dale. Dale and his two team mates will be testing their knowledge against one of The WCCS hosts and their two teammates, made from members of the writing community! This promises to be lots of fun and you can make the difference. There are 5 rounds revolving around the world of writing, books, TV, film a...

An insurance mathematician’s carefully ordered life is turned on its head when he unexpectedly loses his job and inherits an adventure park … with a whole host of problems. A quirky, tense and warmly funny thriller from award-winning Finnish author Antti Tuomainen. Antti Tuomainen was an award-winning copywriter when he made his literary debut in 2007 as a suspense author. The critically acclaimed...

We are joined live with author Rod Reynolds. The author of the Charlie Yates series, Blood Red City and Black Reed Bay! Black Reed Bay: When a young woman vanishes from an exclusive oceanfront community in the middle of the night, Detective Casey Wray’s takes on a case that leads her in chilling, unexpected directions … A twisty, breath-taking police procedural. First in a heart-pounding new serie...

We were joined by M.W.Craven! He is the author of The Washington Poe series and THE AVISON FLUKE SERIES The Avison Fluke series. His latest book Dead Ground was the fourth in the The Washington Poe series and was a Sunday Times Best Seller. 'Heart-pounding, hilarious, sharp and shocking, Dead Ground is further proof that M.W. Craven never disappoints. Miss this series at your peril.' Chris Whitake...

We are joined LIVE by children's author PHIL EARLE! "I've written twenty books now for children and teenagers, and LOVE visiting schools, libraries and festivals to talk to people about the power of storytelling. It's a magnificent way to live my life..." His latest book When The Sky Falls has had so many outstanding reviews. "Utterly brilliant, original and so very, very moving... a triumph for k...

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In 2019 she was the third biggest-selling author in the UK, ahead of Michelle Obama and Lee Child (and only just behind David Walliams and JK Rowling) We are delighted to bring you the mind of so many instant classics. Julia Donaldson has brought parents a fantastic range of children's stories. Making those evening bedtime stories so much more enjoyable and special. We don't know anyone who hasn't...

The first novel-writing guide from the best-selling Save the Cat! story-structure series, which reveals the 15 essential plot points needed to make any novel a success. Les Misérables meets The Lunar Chronicles in this thrilling conclusion to the System Divine trilogy that’s an “explosion of emotion, intrigue, romance, and revolution” (Stephanie Garber, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the...

"Creepy, witty, laugh-out-loud and shudder-inducing" This certainly sounds like a book worth discussing! Join us as we delve into the mind of Bethany Clift. She is a graduate of the Northern Film School, the producer of low-budget British horror film Heretic, and the Director of her own production company, Saber Productions. Last One At The Party is her debut novel. The human race has been wiped o...

LAURA KAY is joining us to talk about her debut book THE SPLIT. "My debut novel The Split is a queer rom-com set in Sheffield. When Ally is brutally dumped by her girlfriend, she finds herself homeless, friendless and jobless... but at least she has Malcolm. Wounded and betrayed, Ally has made off with the one thing she thinks might soothe the pain: Emily's cat. In a nutshell this novel features l...

Adele Parks needs no introduction. BUT, incase you live under a rock and don't know, Adele is a multi million bestselling author. She is described as one of the most-loved and biggest-selling women’s fiction writers in the UK. 4 million copies of her UK editions have been sold and have been translated into more than 30 different languages. Titles include Lies Lies Lies, Just My Luck and Both of Yo...