Work in Progress

- Blurb -

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.