Showcase

The Literary Consultancy is excited to be working on an innovative showcase for its writing talent, initially in association with Staple Magazine. See TLC Showcase Introduction for more on the inception of the Showcase and please see below for where it is now.

Once a month we will highlight the work of one author whose work we believe deserves a platform, whether simply because our readers felt it worth championing, or whether we have helped the writer on to commercial publication.

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Elspeth Wilson

“It’s too late. I know it, but I try anyway. I have the same feeling as when you already know you’ve overslept without even checking your alarm. Except this is so much worse, the comparison seems almost laughable. This isn’t like the days we stayed up too late at sleepovers, fuelled by sugar and the thrill of doing something forbidden, where we’d have to rush to brush our teeth and still be late for double chemistry.”

From ‘These Mortal Bodies’ – included in the showcase 

“I started writing These Mortal Bodies in February 2020. Throughout lockdown and caring for a loved one who was unwell, I wrote the first draft in fifteen-minute chunks as that was the only time I had. Although the themes the novel explores are sometimes dark, it was also my escape and my salvation. I lost myself in writing and a world of towering spires, wood-panelled libraries and oh-so-close friendship.” From the Introduction

Previous Showcase Authors

Liam Brown – TLC Showcase Author

Liam Brown

“You’re writin your name now I see? Well good on ya. That’s all a man needs to sign his life away ha. But really it’s good. I was twice your

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James Cook – TLC Showcase Author

James Cook

“Ever since writing my first callow lyrics aged 14, I’d been striving to develop as a songwriter, learning different instruments, mastering the studio (we recorded and rehearsed day and night

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Caroline Chisholm – TLC Showcase Author

Caroline Chisholm

“My birth was hailed not by a single star, but by many bright lights that burned briefly in the night sky before falling to earth. The invasion of the Russian

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MichelleWareham – TLC Showcase Author

Michelle Wareham

“Eli wrote every week from the Western Front, until his letters stopped arriving two months ago. His letters dry. His strong handwriting reminds her of his warm presence. Mary’s letters,

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David Turner – TLC Showcase author

David Turner

“I marvelled at the vastness and flatness and emptiness of the parched red desert floor, the huge void of silence, suspended primordial time; the east–west highway that ran straight for

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Pen Factor TLC Showcase

Pen Factor Special

“I turned about the room, toe to toe, making the smallest circle. What I wanted was not there. His clock, his papers, his quill glass – emptied, cleared, gone. I

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Bernice Landry – TLC showcase author

Bernice Landry

“What I find interesting, he says, is that your clothing is all white, like everything we see around us. Even your shoes are white. I thought they were more off-white,

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Jennifer Makumbi – TLC Showcase author

Jennifer Makumbi

“Now the crowd was in control. Everyone clamoured to hit somewhere, anywhere but the head. A kid pushed through the throng, managed to land a kick on Kamu’s butt and

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Rebecca Swirsky – TLC Showcase author

Rebecca Swirsky

“Celia, on the other side of town, is kissing the tiny, sweet brown moles which dot her lover’s chin like a constellation. It was a thoughtful play that her lover

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Daniel Pembery – TLC Showcase author

Daniel Pembrey

“The glade was peculiarly dense around Vogel’s ungated entranceway. Pine, maple, and scrub oak fought for sky. The canopy of the driveway almost totally shut out the light. Only after

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Amna Boheim – TLC Showcase author

Amna Boheim

“I lay in darkness, unsure of what had stirred me. Sleep still clung to my body, but I was conscious of my whereabouts. Moonlight spilled through the gap in the

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Jeremy Stafford-Deitsch – TLC showcase author

Jeremy Stafford-Deitsch

“Tristan did not consider himself brave. But then he did not consider himself a coward either. He knew he should have told his parents of his plan but they were

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Stephen Chance

“This period he can picture. If he saunters down to the Thames after his mid-day meal he will see this scene: merchants’ houses, wharves, the unloading of ships. But…the scale,

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David Spon-Smith – TLC Showcase author

David Spon-Smith

“A cold breeze blows over my face. Then something warm an’ wet, stinking of damp hair. I open my eyes, slowly, one at a time. Focus. “Ugghh!” I shouts, “gits

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Ann Bone – TLC Showcase author

Ann Bone

“The back of the house beyond has already sunk into obscurity. I do not need to see it to picture it. Where this house is stucco, that one is red

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TLC Showcase author – Rosanne Daryl Thomas

Rosanne Daryl Thomas

“The annual Christmas present debate was abruptly suspended. Their adored maestro, Walter Albero, PhD, who had originally set out in life intending to be a botanist, could be heard wheeling

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Balvinder Banga – TLC Showcase author

Balvinder Banga

“Looking at the calendar of Ravidas, and the photograph beside it of the grandchildren she had yet to meet, she raised the package like a chalice to her wrinkled forehead.

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Piers Bearne – TLC Showcase author

Piers Bearne

“I should have been in London, not this Essex midden swirling with pigeon-chest men and their gossiping dry-venus wives. I was no fighter, could not read nor write; but by

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Tina Seskis - TLC Showcase author

Tina Seskis

“In the end they settled on Caroline Rebecca, although Frances didn’t particularly like either name – but Andrew had suggested them, and anyway she couldn’t face thinking of any others. 

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