Joel C. Scoberg

YouTube video by The Writing Community Chat Show From Lawyer to Sci-Fi Bestseller | Joel Scoberg on Writing, Dreams & Winning Big.

I had a lot of fun on the Writing Community Chat Show talking about: writing short stories, how I became a winner of the #WritersoftheFuture, and even Radagast!

Also go check out the 360+ interviews on the WCCS site with authors like Ian Rankin giving writing tips and advice.

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Bonus show this Wednesday - Joel C Scoberg. 8PM, Live on YouTube, Facebook, X, & right here! From Law to Hollywood: Joel Scoberg’s Journey to Sci-Fi Stardom.

I’m super excited to be appearing on the Writing Community Chat Show on 6 August at 8pm (GMT). Tune in to hear about my writing journey and inspirations, and my story, “The Stench of Freedom”, which was a winner of the #writersofthefuture contest and appears in #WOTF41

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Press Release - Baen Books Announces Winner of the 2025 Baen Fantasy Adventure Award Press Release - Baen Books Announces Winner of the 2025 Baen Fantasy Adventure Award

Huge congratulations to my writing pal @gideonpsmith.bsky.social who has won the 2025 Baen Fantasy Adventure Award 🤩🥳 He’s a very talented writer (how else would he have won?!) and is also a really supportive guy that encourages and motivates emerging writers to keep going. Well deserved 👏

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Press Release - Baen Books Announces Winner of the 2025 Baen Fantasy Adventure Award Press Release - Baen Books Announces Winner of the 2025 Baen Fantasy Adventure Award

Still reeling, but thrilled to share—I’ve won the 2025 Baen Fantasy Adventure Award!

This story is personal, and having it find a home at @baenbooks.bsky.social means the world to me. Eternal thanks to the judges and everyone who believed in it. 🐉⚔️✨

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Fun in the sun and 100 subs done Issue #6 (July 2025)

ICYMI: check out the latest issue of my newsletter.

I talk about hitting 100 submissions this month, recent interviews, what I've been reading (spoiler alert, Paper Menagerie and other stories by Ken Liu) and my book recommendation for this month.

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Hey #booksky This is the book I was recently published in. If you have not read it yet, it is available wherever books or audiobooks are sold. And if you have read it, feel free to post an honest review. It would be greatly appreciated 😊 Thanks!

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I treated myself to this epic #WritersoftheFuture ebook bundle featuring @lancerobinsonwriter.com and @markleslie.bsky.social and more! There’s a base bundle of 5 books or an enhanced bundle of 18 books, you pay either a minimum or recommended price ($4/$8 or $20/$28) - absolute bargain! #booksky 🪐📚

Each month I post about one book that I really love. This month it's a book that has had perhaps the most profound effect on me as both a reader and writer and it's the book I can’t wait until my children are old enough to read: The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien. Read the full post below.
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Joel C. Scoberg on ‘The Stench of Freedom’ and Writers of the Future We speak to Joel C. Scoberg about his Writers of the Future-winning story The Stench of Freedom, his creative process and seeing his story illustrated for the first time.

I was delighted to talk to @scifinow.bsky.social about my #WritersoftheFuture winning story, “The Stench of Freedom”, as well as my writing process and inspiration. Their questions got me thinking about my process and I wonder if it’s like any of yours. I would love to know

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Ha! Thank you, Lance!!

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My journey as a writer hit a new milestone - 100 submissions. With 6 stories published that gives me a success rate of 6%. I've no idea if that's good or bad or average but I have reflected on my "success" to date. TLDR: I'm happy with where I'm headed and the fun I'm having. #writingcommunity 🪐📚💙

Any writers or illustrators out there who might be thinking of entering #WritersoftheFuture contest, get those submissions in before midnight today (30 June). What have you go to lose? It’s free to enter and, you never know, you may end up on that stage in Hollywood next year #writingcommunity 🪐📚💙

Less than a week to go to get your entries in for this quarter of the #WritersoftheFuture contest. You’ve got to be in it to win it! And the prize is epic - a week of workshops in Hollywood taught by SFF legends and getting published in a highly respected anthology.

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Writers of the Future Volume 41 won a Gold Award for Anthologies at the American Fiction Awards

Hot on the heels of its UK release, #WritersoftheFuture Volume 41 has won its first award! 🥳🤩

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📻 My interview with UK Talk Radio, where I chatted about my story (The Stench of Freedom) in #WOTF41 is expected to air between 8.00 am and 8.25am tomorrow (19 June) on the UK Talk Radio Breakfast Show. You can listen live tomorrow or via the #WritersoftheFuture page on UK Talk Radio's website.

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Volume 41 of Writers of the Future is now on sale in the UK! Why not go and grab yourself a copy? 😊

Volume 41 of Writers of the Future is now on sale in the UK!
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BOOK RELEASE DAY! I’m so excited that #WOTF41 is now available to buy in the UK as of today (18 June) 🥳🤩 If you haven’t bought a copy yet, please go and do so, you won’t be disappointed. (I am of course completely biased). You’ll be able to read my story, The Stench of Freedom

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Only three days to go until #WOTF41 is released in the UK! I’m so excited! 🪐📚💙

Writers of the Future Volume 41 will be released in the UK in 18 June 2025

Less than two weeks to go now until the UK release of #WritersoftheFuture #WOTF41 which contains my story, “The Stench of Freedom” 🤩
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Hiya! I would love to be added to this starter pack. I write speculative fiction, am based on the Gower Peninsula, and am a fellow WotF winner 😄

330. Winners from year 41 at the Writers & Illustrators of the Future workshop and awards gala. These eight winners from year 41 at the Writers & Illustrators of the Future workshop and awards gala: Seth Atwater, Jr., author of

Check out the latest #WritersoftheFuture podcast, where yours truly and seven other winners from #WOTF41 chatted about our creative journeys and our experience at the Hollywood workshops. This was recorded on the final night - I miss my cohort! An amazing week but an even better group of people! 💙

REVIEW — WRITERS OF THE FUTURE, VOL. 41 - Amazing Stories L. Ron Hubbard started Writers of the Future contest back in the 1980s as a way of encouraging new writers (and later, illustrators) into the genres of science fiction, fantasy and light horror. The 4...

Many thanks to Amazing Stories for the write up of #WOTF41. And I’m delighted that my story, “The Stench of Freedom”, got a special mention! 🤩 🪐📚💙

View of Oxwich Bay, Gower, Wales with coffee and a copy of the Science Fiction Hall of Fame in the foreground

A cup of coffee and a cracking view of Oxwich Bay to continue my #WritersoftheFuture reading assignment from Tim Powers. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿😎 #WOTF41 #booksky 🪐📚

Now that life has settled back into its normal pace, I've finally gotten round to writing a blog post about the #WritersOfTheFuture awards gala. It was such an amazing event and I had an absolute blast! Take a look at some of the photos and see for yourself. #WOTF41 #writingcommunity

It’s nice and hot here in Wales, though nothing compared to Arrakis. And we don’t have giant sand worms either. Never mind, how about my “why I love” book recommendation for this month?

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Chuffed to receive my contributors copy of @gwyllion.bsky.social and looking forward to reading all the other great stories in Issue 10 (which is on sale now so grab a copy for yourselves too)! 🪐📚 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿📚 #booksky

It's been a busy few weeks promoting the launch of #WOTF41 and I've been doing more media interviews and events than I ever thought (I thought I would do none, ever 😂). It was all good fun, though I was a little nervous to be on TV (and it feels weird to say that I was on TV!) #writingcommunity 🪐📚

It was a lovely sunny bank holiday weekend here and I got to do a bit of reading for once. It reminded me I haven't been sharing my monthly book club recommendations (doh!). This isn't a review of the books, just why I love them and my personal connection to them.

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