About Us
We are an international team of three industry experts in writing, publishing, conference planning, and retreats. With roots in Scotland and Australia, our unique blend of expertise is dedicated to helping you achieve your writing dreams.
Wendy H. Jones
Wendy H. Jones is the multi award winning, international best-selling author of adult crime fiction (The Detective Inspector Shona McKenzie Mysteries), adult cozy mysteries (Cass Claymore Investigates), Young Adult mysteries (The Fergus and Flora Mysteries), children’s picture books (The Bertie the Buffalo Series) and the award-winning Writing Matters series of books for writers.
Her mission is to bring readers books that will entertain and enthral and to help entrepreneurs gain powerful industry authority by writing books based on existing knowledge and expertise. To this end she set up the online Authorpreneur Accelerator Academy where she has helped numerous authors learn all aspects of the writing and publishing business in order to bring books to publication.
She is also an editor and writing coach who has helped countless authors to bring their books from first draft to highly polished, completed manuscripts. In addition she is the Editor in Chief of Writers’ Narrative magazine, the magazine for writers worldwide, hosts the Writing and Marketing Show podcast and is an acclaimed international public speaker.
A popular public speaker Wendy has spoken, and delivered workshops, at numerous conferences worldwide. As the President of the Scottish Association of Writers she was instrumental in running the highly successful annual conference for the five years of her presidency. She was the founder of Crime at the Castle, a popular crime festival at Glamis Castle in Scotland. In addition, in her role on the committee of the Society of Authors in Scotland, she assisted in the running of the sold-out Society of Authors in Scotland Conference. Her writing workshops, where she blends factual content with humour, are always popular with participants enthusiastically using the material provided to shape their writing and publishing journey.
Before turning her passion for reading into a writing career Wendy was a nurse in both the Royal Navy and the Army, before moving into academia. Her passions are reading, writing and travel and she is never happier than when combining all three. She loves to support others in their writing journey and to see them realise their dreams by completing and publishing their books. To this end she has assisted hundreds of writers in bringing their stories to the world – stories which are impacting on and changing lives worldwide.
Shoma Mittra
Shoma helps entrepreneurs who have a dream.
A dream to impact the world, to change lives, to showcase authority by writing and publishing books.
Why books? Because books will transcend time. They are our legacy to the world. They will carry our spirit and continue to empower others long after we are gone.
Her mission is to help make the process of writing a book – from blank page to published author as easy as possible. You don’t have to tie yourself in knots about the whole writing and publishing process because she has made it incredibly simple for you.
All you have to do is tell your story from the heart. Shoma will help you do the rest
She has been a human- interest writer and editor for over two decades and she brings her skills to your doorstep. From thinking of a best-selling topic, structuring your books, editing and polishing your manuscript till it gleams, choosing from various publishing platforms and marketing your book in the real world and online she is with you every step of the way.
As she says, “It’s your job to dream. It’s my job to make it come true.”
With a background in language and literature, Shoma Mittra began her career as a copywriter in Rupert Murdoch’s media empire in Asia with the Star TV network in the late 90’s.
She was a lowly hire in this vast enterprise, bent over her computer tasked with creating tantalising headlines for Business News shows! Much of the time she had no idea what she was doing and played Solitaire on her screen while trying to come up with the best words. That’s about as challenging as it can get.
She soon learnt how powerful words can be. As she created copy for the next few months, TRP ratings for news and business shows suddenly started going up. She was soon promoted to editor, producer and then she moved to scriptwriting for popular TV soaps.
Soon however, she changed gears and moved into print journalism and stayed in that role for over sixteen years. In that time, she also wrote several books, was ghost writer to five well known personalities and later started her own content creation and management company, WriteClick Writing Services.
Shoma is an author coach, has her own publishing company and has helped write and publish over 200 books in the past 3 years.
Susan McVey
Having had a passion for reading and writing since an early age, this passion has only grown over the years. Susan has been writing since she could pick up a pen and after her children flew the nest she turned to writing seriously.
Her main focus is writing for a YA audience under the pen name of Marti M McNair, and her books feature dystopian settings, dark political undercurrents and places her characters in precarious situations which tests them to the limit.
Susan is an award winning writer. Susan has been placed in competitions several years running for awards through the Scottish Association of Writers.
She has served for twelve years on the Council for the Scottish Association of Writers where she was instrumental in running the annual writing conference and satellite events. Immersing herself deeply in the writing community, she loves to bring writers together to share knowledge, skills and expertise. Susan is competent in preparing and leading workshops. Having recently found more time, Susan now offers a manuscript critique service to help writers develop their work in progress.
Susan lives in the heart of Robert Burns territory with her husband and family. She loves travelling, writing and making new friends wherever she goes in the world.