If so, do take a look at:
Both close on Sunday 31st May so do give them a go!
On Monday 23rd February @ 9AM (UK time) the plotting vs pantsing panel included Denise Beddows, Jack Chandler, John Lynch. Poet and novelist Lee Benson joined us as sadly Alan Meredith and David Wake couldn’t be with us for that session.
I therefore decided to repeat it at 9pm the same day. So…
The 9PM panel (UK time): plotting vs pantsing included AA Abbott, Alan Meredith, David Wake, Donna Morfett and Ryan Stark.
These are free events but we’re raising money for local libraries and we’d be really grateful if you would donate whatever you afford via the Charities & Donate page. Thank you so much.
Woo hoo! The wonderful Jacqueline Lambert (who I hope will join us on our non-fiction panel at some stage!) has added us to her list of UK book festivals. There is a link on that page for those running overseas.
In fact not only has she added us to January but also April, July and October! How wonderful.
Do check out the list – I’ve saved it as a favourite. And I certainly plan on attending some so hopefully I’ll get to meet her IRL… as the acronym goes.
She does say that “Some are genre specific: Crime is very well represented” and boy, do I know that. Fair enough that most of my friends – online and in real life – write that genre but having gone to a number of crime-only and mixed genre festivals, I know what a lovely bunch crime writers are. So much so that the crime panel for the 25 Jan 2026 Festival overflowed to the extent where I tweaked the 1pm ideas workshop/mixed panel Q&A to chatting with crime authors about ideas. So if you love crime you’ll get a double dose of us.
Quick plug: tickets for the online festivals are free (see the ‘Tickets‘ page) although we’re raising money for three (two announced at the time of writing this – 15th Jan 2026 – ten days before the first online festival… no pressure!) local book-related charities so if you could find a few pennies (the suggestion starts at £1 but you can put in a different amount) for them, that would be great.
ALL the profits from the festivals (there’s no expense to the online one – everyone’s giving their time for free – but the hotel’s not cheap then we need equipment: lanyards, goodie bags and so on) go to these charities. I hope to be announcing the third charity shortly. This may stay as the third or I may change this each year – I’ll let you know.