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Showcase: Veldt Hunter

Hello, Readers!   Next week is our last week before our Christmas hiatus, when I will share a couple of charming short stories to get you in the mood for the Christmas festivities and help you to feel hope and optimism for the year to come. But first, I want to start to ...

Monday Moments: Reworking Christmas 2020

Introduced by Holly King “Have a holly jolly Christmas, it's the best time of the year...” I sing to myself as I put up the Christmas decorations on a respectable date (I held out until 30th November). I put them up alone last year as well, as I live alone, so ...

Friday Feature: My Journey To Podcasting

By Don Scoby How I Got Into Podcasting Writing On Whidbey Island started when talking with my friend and fellow author, Tom Trimbath. Somehow, one of our discussions about becoming audiobook narrators morphed into the idea of co-producing and hosting a writing-themed podcast. The pieces rather fit… Tom pointed out there ...
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Showcase: The Law of Capture

Hello, Readers!   This week, we return to the novel extracts of the shortlistees of the 2020 Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize (Best Unpublished Manuscript). My thanks again to each of the authors who have shared their extracts with Write On! Up next is Joe Totten and his exciting 19th-century Western, The Law ...

Saturday Spotlight: New Book Releases November

By Claire Buss, Deputy Editor, Write On!  At Write On! and Pen to Print we want to help connect authors and readers, so we've created a Spotlight page every Saturday, showcasing some of the exciting new reads available. The list has been curated by Lisa Roullier and myself, based on books ...

Friday Feature: With A Little Help From Our Friends

Authors Katharine Johnson (Katy), G D Harper (Glyn) and Helen Matthews talk to Write On! about ways authors can find more readers by supporting each other, and how they came together to form the 'Noir Collective'. (Authors pictured in featured image) Imagine it’s publication day. Perhaps for your debut novel. You want ...
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Showcase: Who We Are + Baba Marta

As the UK's second lockdown continues, we open this week's Showcase with a timely and powerful poem by Zoe Neirizi. It begins with the all-too-familiar description of everyday life during the era of the coronavirus, challenging us to compare our lives now with 'before'. But as the poem progresses, we ...

Friday Feature: The Guilty Writer

By Claire Buss Hello, my name is Claire and I’m a guilty writer. Don’t get me wrong, I love writing and I still can’t get over the fact that other people enjoy reading my books. But the process of writing itself is not always a smooth path. Let me explain. Getting Up ...
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Showcase: Passport To Live

I spoiled you with three entries last week, so just the one entry today—but it's a long one and a compelling and titillating read! The Book Challenge is Pen to Print's premier competition for authors. Selected entrants are rewarded with a mentorship to help them write and develop a novel over ...