The Frustrated Authors

The Frustrated Authors are uncle and nephew Stuart and Richard Baillie.Stuart’s dad, Richard’s grandfather, Peter Baillie, had ten war novels published in the 1950s alongside countless short stories in the science fiction genre - Stuart has been told throughout his life that it was his arrival in 1961 the put an end to his father’s literary ambitions - although the arrival of the family’s first TV might have been equally to blame!Thanks for reading The Frustrated Authors’s Substack! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.So more than 30 years after Peter’s death and with neither his sons nor any of his grandchildren having managed to create a work that found its way onto the nation’s book shelves Stuart and Richard decided to launch a podcast to talk about why neither is (yet) a published author - what is holding them back? You’ll just have to listen to find out!Welcome to the first episode. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit thefrustratedauthors.substack.com