Hi all, Looking forward to learning more about WF and all its members! I am from Colorado and enjoy prose and poetry in all shapes and sizes. Working on a political novel set in Peru at the moment and can't wait to read and share! Hope 2011 has treated you well --and that 2012 is even ..read more

First ten pages of my first novel, currently in progress. I'm at ~40,000 words right now. Set in 550 BC Sparta. Really appreciate some helpful advice from fellow writers. I'd like the first ten pages to grab you by the ... arm... and scream, "Represent me fabulously successful book agent!" or ..read more

Hi, thanks for taking the time to have a look at my novel set 1948 Los Angeles. The story is about a struggling detective who finds is step father dead, along with two little girls. Wanting to find the reason for the deaths he finds himself put in a downward spiral of corrupt Hollywoodland ..read more

An Immortal can't seem to win his gal. Nerves on edge, face pressed to an oval porthole, I watch from a window seat of a Douglas DC-3 as the aircraft circles a small island in the Marianas. It's February in the year 1953, less than ten years after the war. Another war is raging in Korea but ..read more

This might be a long shot, but which university would an established doctor in the Netherlands in 1892 have gone to? At the moment I'm tossing up between Utrecht and Ghent, because they seem to have been among the most established at the time for medical degrees, but I'm not 100% sure. Any ..read more