Podcast: The Bestseller Experiment

Join author and screenwriter Mark Stay with coach, entrepreneur and recording artist Mark Desvaux, as they discover the secrets to writing a bestseller and challenge themselves and you to write, market and self-published a bestselling book in just one year. Each week, they are guided by and interview million-selling, chart-topping authors, publishers on the inside, editors, agents, social media specialists, and many more big names who play a part in the bestseller process. From the writing to marketing, plotting to publishing, learn the secrets to help you write your way to the top of the charts.

EP197 Teaser: Creative Writing Courses with David Bishop

David Bishop is programme leader for Creative Writing at Edinburgh Napier University. He tells us about the variety of creative writing courses available worldwide

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EP196: Kiley Dunbar – Another Listener Who Got A Deal!

Wwe speak to one of our listeners who got a book deal! Kiley Dunbar is the author of One Summer’s Night

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EP195 Teaser: How To get Your Book Into An Indie Bookshop

Liz Hurley runs Hurley Books in Cornwall and is a writer herself. Here she gives us some frank and immensely useful dos and don’ts on how to get your book on the shelves of your local bookshop

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EP194: Tade Thompson – Master Storyteller And Worldbuilder

Tade Thompson’s Rosewater has been nominated for pretty much every award going this year, and Tade’s skill in combining complex worldbuidling and compelling storytelling is second-to-none.

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EP193 Teaser: Audiobooks Masterclass with Tina Dietz

Tina Dietz is an award-winning audiobook publisher and marketing expert and she was kind enough to answer our listeners’ questions on producing audiobooks, casting narrators and more.

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EP192: One Page Punch-Ups With Juliet Ewers

In the latest of our One Page Punch-Up specials we asked our Patreon Chart Toppers supporters to send us one page from their work-in-progress

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EP191 Teaser: Writing Romantic Comedy with Rhoda Baxter and Jane Lovering

We welcome back romantic fiction novelist Rhoda Baxter and this time she’s joined by Jane Lovering, winner of Romantic Comedy Novel of the Year.

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EP190: Simon Beckett – One Moment That Changed Everything

Simon Beckett has sold over ten million copies of his books worldwide, but he came close to giving up fiction for good until a trip to a body farm changed his career forever.

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EP189 Teaser: A Masterclass on Writing Comics with David Bishop

In the 1990s David Bishop ran Judge Dredd magazine and 2000 AD comic and since then has become a prolific author and screenwriter.

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EP188: Taylor Jenkins-Reid – Breaking The Rules = Bestseller

Taylor Jenkins-Reid’s latest novel Daisy Jones and the Six has been a global smash, but what makes it all the more extraordinary is that she has written fiction in a non-fiction format.

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