Pro tip #1: fiction writing is not for the thin skinned or the avaricious. Pro tip #2: as you'll note in any bookstore, talent isn't mandatory. In this podcast (psst: you can fast forward through the sudden bouts of sobbing) I outline my adventures in the novel writing trade.

A How to Guide to what it is really like to write a novel, pitch a novel, have your novel rejected, publicize your novel.

Playing "The Shadow" in a radio serial hasn't prepared Orson Welles for tackling crime in a real life melodrama. [The story is fictional but it includes some scattered facts]. Written and read by Greg Flynn.

Hong Kong. 1960s. The Colony's most expensive (and best) private investigator is hired by some rather dodgy types. Written and read by Greg Flynn.

Can't handle rejection in the workplace? Then perhaps a career in showbiz isn't for you. Before I scored a job as a scriptwriter in a Sydney film studio - tapping out screenplays for children's movies - I had a humiliating stint scribbling dialogue for a TV soap opera. The experience is captured in this cathartic podcast. The names have been changed to protect the guilty. [Written and read by Greg Flynn.]

How to Guide to what it is really like to write a TV screenplay, write a TV script, have a TV script rejected.

Mr Wolf presents "The Ripped Bodice", a modern fairy tale (well, modern if you view the Austen-tatious Georgian period as such. But let's not quibble). Written and read by Greg Flynn.

A modern fairy tale presented by Mr Wolf, Coldfinger is an unauthorised James Bond adventure written and read by Greg Flynn

How to write a James Bond story, novel or short story.

Mr Ignatius Wolf’s witty (TBC) guide to life’s more difficult challenges may improve your appeal and social skills. Or possibly not. We'll see in a few minutes time.