Novel Experience

Guest Author: Jodie Matthews Twitter: @JodieRMatthews IG: @JodieRhianMatthews Books: Meet Me At The Surface by Jodie Matthews

Host: Kate Sawyer Twitter: @katesawyer IG: @mskatesawyer Books: The Stranding by Kate Sawyer & This Family

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Margaret Wilkerson Sexton, award-winning author of Reece’s Book Club pick ON THE ROOFTOP

Margaret chats about:

• Her background as a lawyer, but how she was actually an author before she trained to do that…
• Being inspired by Fiddler on The Roof
• The different techniques she has employed to research her historical fiction
• What it was like for her novel to be selected as a Reece’s Book Club Pick

Margaret’s reading recommendations:
Sweet, Soft, Plenty Rhythm by Laura Warrell
Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
Company by Shannon Sanders

Guest Author: Margaret Sexton Wilkerson Twitter: @MWilkers13 IG: @MWilkers13 Books: On The Rooftop by Margaret Wilkerson Sexton, A Kind of Freedom by Margaret Wilkerson Sexton

Host: Kate Sawyer Twitter: @katesawyer IG: @mskatesawyer Books: The Stranding by Kate Sawyer & This Family

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Lauren Mckenzie, author of THE COUPLES shares her top tips for getting unstuck in her writing.

Guest Author: Lauren Mckenzie Twitter: @lulmac57 IG: @57lulum Books: The Couples by Lauren Mckenzie

Host: Kate Sawyer Twitter: @katesawyer IG: @mskatesawyer Books: The Stranding by Kate Sawyer & This Family

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Guest Author: Araminta Hall Twitter: @AramintaHall IG: @aramintahall Books: One of The Good Guys by Araminta Hall

Host: Kate Sawyer Twitter: @katesawyer IG: @mskatesawyer Books: The Stranding by Kate Sawyer & This Family

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Matt Coyne, the man behind @ManVsBaby and author of Frank & Red.

Matt chats about:

• How it was the first weeks of fatherhood that led him back to the writing he had loved at school
• The difference in writing his non-fiction books to crafting a novel
• How he studied other novels to understand what he was trying to achieve
• How he has planted a ‘Marvel’ style Easter Egg at the end of his novel that highlights the connections throughout it.
• How he has recently taken up stand-up comedy and is currently on tour with his stand-up show

Matt's reading recommendations:
How To Train Your Dragon by Cressida Cowell
A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
About A Boy by Nick Hornby
Millions by Frank Cottrell Boyce
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
The List of Suspicious Things by Jennie Godfrey

Guest Author: Matt Coyne Twitter: @mattcoyney IG: @manversusbaby Books: Frank & Red by Matt Coyne

Host: Kate Sawyer Twitter: @katesawyer IG: @mskatesawyer Books: The Stranding by Kate Sawyer & This Family

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Tracy Sierra, author of NIGHT WATCHING shares the advice she’d give to her pre-published self.

Guest Author: Tracy Sierra Twitter: @tsierraauthor IG: @tsierraauthor Books: Nightwatching by Tracy Sierra

Host: Kate Sawyer Twitter: @katesawyer IG: @mskatesawyer Books: The Stranding by Kate Sawyer & This Family

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Author and Journalist, Madeleine Gray, author of GREEN DOT.

Madeleine chats about:

• Writing to celebrate the mistress
• Her background working as an arts critic and bookseller
• Her PHD and how it might relate to her debut novel
• What she thinks about the label ‘Sad Girl Novel’

Madeleine’s reading recommendations:
Luster by Raven Leilani
Asymmetry by Lisa Halliday
Conversations With Friends by Sally Rooney
Exciting Times by Naoise Dolan
This Happy by Niamh Campbell
How to be Both by Ali Smith
Dress Rehearsals by Madison Godfrey

Guest Author: Madeleine Gray Twitter: @gray_madeleine_ IG: @madeleine_gray_ Books: Green Dot by Madeleine Gray

Host: Kate Sawyer Twitter: @katesawyer IG: @mskatesawyer Books: The Stranding by Kate Sawyer & This Family

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Lavie Tidhar, author of too many books to mention, but most recently MAROR and ADAMA, which will soon be joined by the third instalment of this thematic trilogy, SIX LIVES.


Lavie chats about:

• Writing in different genres and the difference of publishing in each
• Discovering writing through his travelling
• Writing about families and sagas
• What makes something a trilogy, even though the stories might not be directly connected
• The balance of writing what you want to write, vs what your publisher would like you to write.
• How science fiction can give you more freedom to be ‘truthful’ than writing something set in our world

Lavie’s reading recommendations:
The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough
Anything by James Clavell
Silver Nitrate by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Guest Author: Lavie Tidhar Twitter: @lavietidhar IG:@lavietidhar Books: Adama by Lavie Tidhar, Maror by Lavie Tidhar, The Circumference of the World by Lavie Tidhar, Neom by Lavie Tidhar, The Escapement by Lavie Tidhar, The Hood by Lavie Tidhar, By Force Alone by Lavie Tidhar, Candy by Lavie Tidhar, Central Station by Lavie Tidhar, Unholy Land by Lavie Tidhar, A Man Lies Dreaming by Lavie Tidhar, A Man Lies Dreaming by Lavie Tidhar, The Violent Century by Lavie Tidhar, Osama by Lavie, Art and War by Lavie Tidhar

Host: Kate Sawyer Twitter: @katesawyer IG: @mskatesawyer Books: The Stranding by Kate Sawyer & This Family

Novel Experience with Kate Sawyer is recorded and produced by Kate Sawyer - GET IN TOUCH or visit https://www.mskatesawyer.com/novelexperiencepodcast for more information.