Work in Progress: The untold story of the Crawley Writers' Group, compiled by Peter, writer - Couverture souple

Brotzel, Dan; Jenkins, Martin; Woolf, Alex

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1783529628 ISBN 13 : 9781783529629

Editeur : Unbound Digital, 2021

Synopsis

They've all got a book in them, unfortunately.

In December 2016, Julia Greengage, aspiring writer and resting actor, puts up a poster in her local library inviting people to join a new writers' group. The group will exchange constructive feedback and 'generally share in the pains and pleasures of this excruciating yet exhilarating endeavour we call Literature'.

Seven people, each in their own way a bit of a work in progress, heed the call.

There s Keith, a mercenary sci-fi geek who can write 5,000 words before breakfast and would sell his mother for a book deal. Tom, a suburban lothario with an embarrassing secret. Peter, a conceptual artist whose main goal in life is to make everyone else feel uncomfortable. Alice, who s been working on her opening sentence for over nine months. Jon, a faded muso with a UFO complex. Blue, whose doom-laden poems include Electrocuted Angel in the Headlights of My Dead Lover s Eye Sockets and the notorious Kitten on a Fatberg . And Mavinder, who sadly couldn t make the first meeting. Or the second. But promises to come to the next one

Soon, under Julia's watchful eye, the budding writers are meeting every month to read out their work and indulge each other's dreams of getting published. But it s not long before the group's idiosyncrasies and insecurities begin to appear. Feuds, rivalries and even romance are on the cards not to mention an exploding sheep's head, a cosplay stalker, and an alien mothership invasion. They re all on a journey, and God help the rest of us.

A novel-in-emails about seven eccentric writers, written by three quite odd ones, Work in Progress is a very British farce about loneliness, friendship and the ache of literary obscurity.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Dan s first collection of short stories, Hotel du Jack, is published by Sandstone. He is also co-author of a comic novel with Unbound, Kitten on a Fatberg. Two of his stories have recently received Pushcart nominations. He won the 2019 Riptide Journal short story competition, was runner-up in the 2019 Leicester Writes contest, and was highly commended in the Manchester Writing School competition 2018. He has stories in places like Pithead Chapel, Ellipsis, Reflex Fiction, Cabinet of Heed, Bending Genres, The Esthetic Apostle, Spelk, Ginger Collect and Fiction Pool.

Martin Jenkins is a freelance editor, mainly working on art books and academic titles. He is also an enthusiastic magician.

Alex Woolf has written well over 150 books for children and adults, published by the likes of OUP, Ladybird, Heinemann and Watts. Non-fiction subjects he's tackled include sharks, asteroids, ghosts, acne, chocolate and zombies. His scary novel Soul Shadows, about flesh-eating shadows, was shortlisted for the RED Book Award. In 2019, he won a Fiction Express award, based on reader votes, for his science fiction story Mystery at Moon Base One. His novel, Aldo Moon, about a ghost-hunting detective, was described by bestselling crime writer Peter James as 'a real delight, witty, ghostly and at times deliciously ghastly'.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Unbound Digital
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1783529628
• ISBN 13: 9781783529629
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 272
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible