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

Theyve all got a book in them, unfortunately.\r\n\r\nIn 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.\r\n\r\nSeven people, each in their own way a bit of a work in progress, heed the call.\r\n\r\nTheres 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, whos 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 Lovers Eye Sockets and the notorious Kitten on a Fatberg. And Mavinder, who sadly couldnt make the first meeting. Or the second. But promises to come to the next one...\r\n\r\nSoon, under Julias watchful eye, the budding writers are meeting every month to read out their work and indulge each others dreams of getting published. But its not long before the groups idiosyncrasies and insecurities begin to appear. Feuds, rivalries and even romance are on the cards - not to mention an exploding sheeps head, a cosplay stalker, and an alien mothership invasion. Theyre all on a journey, and God help the rest of us.\r\n\r\nA 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.