The Writer's Workshop

Ex Met Detective Stuart Gibbon talks about his life as real Senior Investigating Officer, the work he does now helping crime writers with their novels and which police series gets his thumbs up as most authentic.... 

Former British army officer and award winning writer Simon Conway talks about his work in Afghanistan, writing in war zones and the trick to finding that elusive first sentence of a novel... 

International best selling writer Mel Sherratt reveals the secrets of self-publishing, how to sustain a long running series and how to deal with those tricky structural edits...

New York Times best selling author Caroline Mitchell explains why a first draft is like a blind date, how her former career as a police officer informs her writing process and what it's like seeing one of your novels being adapted for television.... 

Best selling thriller writer Mark Edwards reveals why the best ideas are in hell, why a spreadsheet can help you edit and why dividing opinion is the key to success...

Seven times Sunday Times bestseller Cally Taylor reveals why persistence pays off, her ongoing search for the perfect writing process and why her first book was bound with wool...

CJ Tudor, Sunday Times best selling writer of The Chalk Man talks about pantsing, vomit drafts, the day she was tweeted by Stephen King and juggling writing time with being a mum.

Will Shindler is the writer of the Finn and Paulsen series of police procedural detective novels for Hodder and Stoughton.  He's also the host of The Writer's Workshop and this is his introduction to what you can expect to hear on the show. Like and subscribe to ensure you don't miss an episode.