The glorious One Star Quiz returns! This time starring the most independent of adjudicators Laura Mauro, the fabulous James Worrad and the 'counts as one person' Tiny Bookcase Ben and Nico!

Expect absolutely fair scoring, Ulysses, help/hindrance from the audience, egregious attempts at a Leeds accent, tapirs, facts about Tolkien that the hosts really should have known, and absolutely no cheating or betrayal whatsoever.

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Well, maybe a little. What's a One Star Quiz without at least a little betrayal, after all!

Our penultimate guest of the season was the wonderful James Worrad!

Chaotic highlights include:

• The entire podcast going wildly off the rails in the opening few minutes thanks to judge dredd

• A wild Nicholas Cage appears!

• Kit invents a new game to play whilst reading Stephen King

• The sandwich shop of dreams gets a unique entry

• RJ gets confused as to what agents' roles are

• Jim gives RJ a new nickname and Kit a new band name

• Kit talks actual writing, including bring the trauma of The Finite to a new medium

• An exciting sneak peak into Jim's latest WIP!

And much, much more!

Our next season 9 guest was the amazing Stephen Kozeniewski!

Listen in for the excitement that is:
- Scott simply failing to turn up
- Kit discussing reading your own work and RJ discovering the joy of 'making notes'
- A glorious discussion surrounding Philadelphia (both city and cheese)
- Stephen utterly perplexing the sandwich shop of dreams with his offering
- A world exclusive sneak peak at what Stephen's working on
- A deep dive into Douglas Adams
and so, so much more!

Writeopolis season 9 continues with with the brilliant E J Swift!

In today's episode:

- RJ is thrilled by the spooky noises Discord have added for Halloween and disappointed that Giarc the recording bot failed to join in the fun
- Emma delights with tales of swimming with sharks
- Vampires appear and are quickly replaced by smut
- Kit discusses the launch of Millionaire's Day at FantasyCon and the potential of bringing the trauma of The Finite to the screen
- Writing craft is discussed, to the surprise of everyone involved!!
- RJ criticises Philip Pullman for not having enough armoured bears
- And, inevitably, the casual trauma in kids animal stories comes up in conversation

Listen in for all this and lots, lots more!

Writeopolis Season 9 continues with the brilliant David Wragg!

The chaos begins early in this one and soon descends into:

• The ghost of the clicky pen haunting Kit

• Everyone gets very confused about who everyone is

• A philosophical discussion about crossbows appears

• Dave discusses his latest release and compares it to the Fast and The Furious. In terms of physics. Obviously.

• Conspiracy theories around Catcher in the Rye run deep

• RJ justifies everything ever as a research expense

• Dave gets called out on his crimes against bears (in his books)

• and the ever inevitable, Cat Talk!

Listen in for all this and so much more nonsense!

Unfortunately, due to issues with the British transport network, episode 3 had to be postponed, but the episode 4 recording will be up soon enough

Season 9 kicks off with a glorious crossover with Ben and Nico from The Tiny Bookcase!

In this episode (which may have slightly exceeded the 1 hour timeslot):

• RJ returns! Along with the clicky pen. And then goes on to explain how he nearly died. Don't worry, only nearly.

• Ben manages to get the word 'banjanxed' into the show, which left the citizens suitably impressed.

• Talk gets unexpectedly spicy

• RJ and Scott fail to do the homework, which inevitably leads to Scott being fired

• RJ fundamentally misunderstands the concept of 'moving on'

• The Tiny Bookcase theme tune is seamlessly inserted into the edit and the differences between Writeopolis's and The Tiny Bookcase's editing processes are made abundantly clear

• Eventually we reach The Tiny Bookcase portion of the episode and Ben, Nico and Kit (who actually did the homework) all read their short stories to the shared prompt of Frown – I'm giving no details on this part of the show as any details would be considered spoilers, but it's delightful!

Listen in for all this and more!

Please be aware there is a content warning for episode due to discussion of sexual assault in TV shows

In this extremely unique episode of Writeopolis, we have Kit flying solo as host to the wonderful Jonathan Zaurin!

The two discuss the film Derelict, its premier at Fright Fest and the dangers in trying to keep such things secret, as well as the joys and struggles of making indie films. They also touch upon the perils of losing time to video games, the lack of risk-taking in Hollywood and both Jonathan and Kit reveal their very strong opinions on musicals and musical episodes.

Listeners will also get a sneak peak at the very recently released Millionaire's Day and King Kong comes up in conversation, which is a complete surprise to everyone in an episode where Kit is the only host.

Enjoy!

After the success of our previous crossover episode, we decided to do it again, this time with Fantasy Book Swap!

The Fantasy Book Swap part of the episode discusses Devil on the Road by Robert Westall and Unraveller by Frances Hardinge, which inevitably includes:

• the delights of second hand bookshops and whether they're all secretly drug fronts.

• a deep dive into the English civil war.

• Ali getting spirited away to another time zone

• and whether the benefits of a curse outweigh the problems

The Writeopolis part of the episode lowers the tone with:

• RJ being blamed for something when he wasn't even there

• Scott not doing the homework and getting sacked. Again.

• And the ever relevant conversation about Owen's dubious love of parsnips

Listen in for all this and more!