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W.A. Kelly
ALLi Author Member
Location: United Kingdom (the)
Skills: Writing Workshop, Press/Media Interview
W.A. Kelly is a crime author, podcast host and screenwriter from Leicester in the UK.
In 2014 Wayne co-created the The Joined Up Writing Podcast where he has interviewed dozens of successful authors and key members of the Publishing industry. There’s a huge archive of blog posts, interviews and more over at joinedupwriting.co.uk and you can subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and all good podcatchers.
In 2019, he wrote and directed ‘INKLING’, a short film selected and screened as an official selection at the International HorrorHound Film Festival in Ohio, and winner of several other awards. In 2020, he wrote and directed the acclaimed short drama ‘LIFE SUPPORT’, shot entirely remotely during lockdown which you can watch here.
He produced the award-winning feature-length documentary, ‘NO FARE: THE SIAN GREEN STORY’, which had its world cinema premiere in 2022, and has written several novels, including what he hopes will be his crime debut, SAFE HANDS, currently on submission.
His short stories have been shortlisted and published in a number of anthologies and his monologues performed on stage and for film – like this one on YouTube here
More recently, he has successfully run several sessions of his ‘Big Screen’ Writing workshop, a fun interactive one day workshop designed to help novelists use screenwriting techniques to improve their books.
His debut crime novel, SAFE HANDS, is released independently with his own Pick Lock Publishing imprint in November 2023.
W.A. Kelly's books
Safe Hands
“Gritty, real and packing a hell of a punch, Safe Hands is the crime novel everyone needs to read this year!”
Lauren North, best-selling thriller author.
“Intriguing characters and a fascinating crime… prepare to be hooked on this twisty thriller!”
Jackie Kabler, Best-selling author of The Vanishing of Class 3B
Sometimes, to break out, you have to break in . . .
Safe Hands is the first in a new British crime series featuring safe cracker, Mickey Blake.
A RETIRED SAFE CRACKER
Mickey Blake was the best, able to open any safe with only his heightened sense of touch. For the last 18 years, he’s been retired, hiding out in Spain and trying to save his marriage. But now his wife is dying, he owes money to the wrong people and time is running out.
A DESPERATE MOTHER
Living in a rundown seaside town, Hazel is a single mum driven to kill to avenge her friend and stop her teenage son being sucked into a life of crime.
ONE LAST JOB
Mickey meets Hazel when he returns to the UK for one last job - to open a huge vault inside a gangland casino. Before that, he needs to deal with a dead body, a corrupt undercover cop, an unhinged crime boss and a son that hates his guts.
Can Mickey and Hazel get out clean?