Writeopolis

Next up we have the return of @starkholborn.bsky.social! Novelist, games writer, film reviewer; there's never a shortage of things to discuss with Stark on the show! Author of For The Road, the Factus Sequence, Triggernometry & Nunslinger - clearly we need to discuss her excellent naming tactics!

S13 continued in full chaotic style with Scott missing Scott, RJ ill & Stewart Hotston pulled in as a new host! Other chaotic events include: -Five minutes of pancake discussion before anyone thinks to introduce @aliettedebodard.com -A conversation on writing soon devolved into how to not write

-A delicious addition to the Sandwich Shop of Dreams that made everyone want to immediately go to Paris to find it -Aliette’s eldest wants her to add murder to her current work. Kit helpfully adds “you can’t go wrong adding murder, can you?” -Stew wins ‘best title pun’ for his current WIP

The glorious One Star Quiz returns! We have our most independent of adjudicators @lauramauro.bsky.social We have Kayleigh Dobbs teaming up with Kit! We have @worrad.bsky.social joining Stewart Hotston's team! We have the most fair scoring ever observed, "gibous moon", furries...

Season 15 speeds on with the wonderful @helencooperwriter.bsky.social up next! Described as the master of the twisty plot (a most delightful title, more of this please), Helen is a writer of psychological thrillers including The Woman In The Villa, My Darling Boy and The Couple In The Photo.

Mythology Queen Shauna Lawless joined us for a fascinating discussion including: -Shauna's excellent approach to home school in lockdown: throw out the curriculum, watch Bill And Ted -Shauna greatly offended and intrigued the Sandwich Shop of Dreams -Announcement of the TV show of Shauna’s series!

-RJ brazenly announcing he wrote the Wyrdwood books specifically so that they could easily sell the film rights as they would be cheap to make… -RJ teases about All The Things! -Kit has flashbacks to having to cut 4k words from a 44k not-novella to make it an actual novella

We're back!! After a year of far too many disruptive shenanigans, it is time to get this show back on the road! Or back in the podcast feeds And what better way to do it than an episode with @stevetoase.bsky.social that immediately veered off into a discussion about German cake and cheese. Classic.

Topics also included, but were not limited to: -RJ knows what podcast he's on, so that's a good start -Steve started discussing his work and a few minutes later vampire motorbikes appeared -Inevitably, Stephen King -Steve has read many books. This is confusing for everyone. -RJ broke the rules

Our next guest is the wonderful @rainewilson.bsky.social Lorraine's latest book, The Salt Oracle, is an Arthur C Clarke Award finalist! Set 17 years after the internet crashed & left the world broken, aboard a floating college, Auli studies the Oracle - an uncanny girl who channels dangerous ghosts

Season 15 continues with the brilliant Cleland Smith! @angelacleland.co.uk is the Scottish-born author of Sequela & Black Doe. Black Doe follows a member of the legendary assassins trying to retrieve her stolen memories & a mother bearing a deadly secret in a world soaked in magic & blood.

Season 15 kicks off with @davidmbarnett.bsky.social David is an author, journalist & comic book writer. His latest series is creepy & unsettling folk horror: An isolated Lancashire village in Withered Hill, crabby coastal horror in Scuttler's Cove, a multi-timeline mining community in Scratch Moss

Season 15 guests! Summer is coming to an end (it bloody better be or we'll set the Sandwich Shop of Dreams on it!) & so the next season of Writeopolis is upon us! 6th Sept -There will be a guest. Probably. Most likely. Or it could be a classic host-only opener. Who knows! (Not us, that's for sure)

13th Dec - One Star Quiz! That's right, Christmas comes early with the best gift of all, the most smally like hand quiz there is with the most independent of adjudicators, @lauramauro.bsky.social ! Guests to be announced closer to the time.

Season 15 guests! Summer is coming to an end (it bloody better be or we'll set the Sandwich Shop of Dreams on it!) & so the next season of Writeopolis is upon us! 6th Sept -There will be a guest. Probably. Most likely. Or it could be a classic host-only opener. Who knows! (Not us, that's for sure)

15th Nov - Pretend there is a very exciting guest here. There will be. At some point.

Season 15 guests! Summer is coming to an end (it bloody better be or we'll set the Sandwich Shop of Dreams on it!) & so the next season of Writeopolis is upon us! 6th Sept -There will be a guest. Probably. Most likely. Or it could be a classic host-only opener. Who knows! (Not us, that's for sure)

18th Oct - Helen Cooper - we're jumping across to the world of psychological thrillers next with the author of the upcoming The Woman In The Villa! Expect twists, turns, thrilling secrets and lots of Italian food! @helencooperwriter.bsky.social

Season 15 guests! Summer is coming to an end (it bloody better be or we'll set the Sandwich Shop of Dreams on it!) & so the next season of Writeopolis is upon us! 6th Sept -There will be a guest. Probably. Most likely. Or it could be a classic host-only opener. Who knows! (Not us, that's for sure)

20th Sept -Cleland Smith will be our 1st guest (or second) & she's bringing along her alter ego Angela Cleland! Ranging from magic & murder with assassins in Black Doe, to poems exploring the experience of having children through the prism of horror & sci-fi in Real Cute Danger @angelacleland.co.uk

The season finale is upon us and we're ending strong with @pauladashe.bsky.social Paula is the award winning author of We Are Here To Hurt Each Other, a collection of short stories in a dark and bloody world where nothing is sacred and no one is safe. So, a nice, light end to the season!

Season 14 speeds on with the wonderful @helencooperwriter.bsky.social up next! Described as the master of the twisty plot (a most delightful title, more of this please), Helen is a writer of psychological thrillers including The Woman In The Villa, My Darling Boy and The Couple In The Photo.