Novel Experience

Novel Experience

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Novel Experience episodes

  • Christmas Special with Karen Swan & Jenny Bayliss
    A Christmas Special with Karen Swan author of eleven Christmas novels, including her most recent, CHRISTMAS BY CANDLELIGHT and Jenny Bayliss author of four Christmas novels, including her most recent, A DECEMBER TO REMEMBER.

    Karen, Jenny and I have a wonderful, festive chat about:
    • The jobs they did before they found their Christmas calling
    • How they found their way into writing Christmas novels
    • Why their books aren’t always entirely set at Christmas, despite that being how they are marketed
    • How they both manage to write two books a year, one for Christmas and one for summer publication and the scheduling and graft that takes.
    Karen’s reading recommendations:Two Women In Rome by Elizabeth BuchanThe Midnight Hour by Eve Chase
    Jenni’s reading recommendations:Love and Other Dramas by Ronali CollinsOne Christmas Morning by Rachel Greenlaw

    Guest Authors: Karen Swan Twitter: @KarenSwan1 Instagram: @Swannywrites Book: Christmas By Candlelight by Karen Swan Jenny Bayliss Twitter: @BaylissJenni Instagram: @jennibayliss Book: A December To Remember by Jenny Bayliss

    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.
    1 hr 9 min
  • Minisode 33 - Saima Mir - advice to yet to be published authors
    Journalist and bestselling author Saima Mir, author of THE KHAN.

    Guest Author: Saima Mir Twitter: @SaimaMir IG: @ben_raf_remy Books: The Khan by Saima Mir

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

    If you enjoyed this 'minisode' please do check out our full-length episodes: https://www.spreaker.com/show/novel-experience

    Novel Experience with Kate Sawyer is recorded and produced by Kate Sawyer - GET IN TOUCH Twitter: @KateSawyer Instagram: @mskatesawyer

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    3 min
  • S7 Ep12 Lauren Mackenzie author of The Couples
    Lauren Mackenzie, screenwriter and author of the Sunday Independent Newcomer of the Year shortlisted debut The Couples.
    Lauren chats about:
    • Why she expanded her writing from screenwriting to prose.
    • Why she thinks it is important to write about ‘how we live now’
    • Choosing to set her debut during the financial crash
    • How she plots her books in a similar way to planning a film script

    Guest Author: Lauren MacKenzie Twitter: @LuluMac57 Instagram: @57LuLum Books: The Couples by Lauren MacKenzie

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

    Lauren’s recommendations:
    Commonwealth by Ann Patchett
    Falling Animals by Shelia Armstrong

    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.
    1 hr 8 min
  • Minisode 32 - Hannah Gold - advice to yet to be published authors
    Bestselling children’s author and winner of the Waterstones and Blue Peter awards Hannah Gold, author of THE LAST BEAR, THE LOST WHALE & her new follow-up to her award winning debut FINDING BEAR.

    Guest Author: Hannah Gold Twitter: @HGold_author IG: @hannahgold_author Books: THE LAST BEAR by Hannah Gold, THE LOST WHALE by Hannah Gold, FINDING BEAR by Hannah Gold
    Host: Kate Sawyer Twitter: @katesawyer IG: @mskatesawyer Books: The Stranding by Kate Sawyer & This Family

    If you enjoyed this 'minisode' please do check out our full-length episodes: https://www.spreaker.com/show/novel-experience

    Novel Experience with Kate Sawyer is recorded and produced by Kate Sawyer - GET IN TOUCH Twitter: @KateSawyer Instagram: @mskatesawyer

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    4 min
  • S7 Ep11 Marianne Levy author of Don't Forget To Scream
    Marianne Levy, arts journalist, children’s author and author of DON’T FORGET TO SCREAM: UNSPOKEN TRUTHS ABOUT MOTHERHOOD.

    Marianne chats about:
    • The unusual route to her memoir being published
    • How writing non-fiction is like unknotting a necklace
    • The reason she thinks her degree in theology informs her work
    • How to write about the things we don’t talk about and why it’s so important to do so

    Guest Author: Marianne Levy Twitter: @MarianneLevy Instagram: @MarianneLevy8 Books: Don’t Forget To Scream by Marianne Levy
    Host: Kate Sawyer Twitter: @katesawyer IG: @mskatesawyer Books: The Stranding by Kate Sawyer & This Family
    Marianne’s recommendations:
    1 hr 3 min
  • Minisode 31 Hema Sukumar - tips to stoke creativity & break through writer's block
    Hema Sukumar, author of MINOR DISTURBANCES AT GRAND LIFE APARTMENTS.
    Guest Author: Hema Sukumar Twitter: @Hema_Sukumar IG: @hemasukumarwrites Books: MINOR DISTURBANCES AT GRAND LIFE APARTMENTS by Hema Sukumar
    Host: Kate Sawyer Twitter: @katesawyer IG: @mskatesawyer Books: The Stranding by Kate Sawyer & This Family

    If you enjoyed this 'minisode' please do check out our full-length episodes: https://www.spreaker.com/show/novel-experience

    Novel Experience with Kate Sawyer is recorded and produced by Kate Sawyer - GET IN TOUCH Twitter: @KateSawyer Instagram: @mskatesawyer

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    3 min
  • S7 Ep10 Julia Boggio author of Chasing The Light
    Julia Boggio, author of SHOOTERS & CHASING THE LIGHT.
    Julia chats about:
    • How she made the decision to self-publish with her agent & what she has learned through that process
    • How branding is her superpower
    • How dancing to Dirty Dancing at her wedding catapulted her photography business to new heights
    • What marketing techniques work to sell her books and what really doesn’t
    • How a Curtis Brown course and workshops with Jenny Colgan and Julie Cohen played their parts in Julia’s journey to publication
    • How having a podcast about books can involve rather a lot of reading
    • Writing about female reproductive health

    Guest Author: Julia Boggio Twitter: @juliaboggio IG: @juliaboggio Books: Shooters by Julia Boggio, Chasing the Light by Julia Boggio

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

    Julia’s recommendations:

    A book for fans of Julia’s work: Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins-Reid

    A book Julia has always loved: The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley

    A book that’s been published recently or is coming soon: Heartstopper Vol.5 by Alice Osman

    Novel Experience with Kate Sawyer is recorded and produced by Kate Sawyer - GET IN TOUCH
    54 min
  • Minisode 30 - Alexandra Potter - advice to authors writing their 3rd/4th/5th...etc book!
    Bestselling author Alexandra Potter, author of CONFESSIONS OF A FORTY SOMETHING F***-UP & MORE CONFESSIONS OF A FORTY SOMETHING F***-UP.

    Guest Author: Alexandra Potter IG: @alexandrapotter Books: MORE CONFESSIONS OF A FORTY SOMETHING F***-UP by Alexandra Potter, ONE GOOD THING by Alexandra Potter, CONFESSIONS OF A FORTY SOMETHING F***-UP by Alexandra Potter, DO YOU COME HERE OFTEN by Alexandra Potter, ME AND MR DARCY by Alexandra Potter, LOVE FROM PARIS by Alexandra Potter, WHO’S THAT GIRL by Alexandra Potter, YOU’RE THE ONE THAT I DON’T WANT by Alexandra Potter, GOING LA LA by Alexandra Potter, THE LOVE DETECTIVE by Alexandra Potter, CALLING ROMEO by Alexandra Potter, DON’T YOU FORGET ABOUT ME by Alexandra Potter, WHAT’S NEW PUSSYCAT by Alexandra Potter

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

    If you enjoyed this 'minisode' please do check out our full-length episodes: https://www.spreaker.com/show/novel-experience

    Novel Experience with Kate Sawyer is recorded and produced by Kate Sawyer - GET IN TOUCH Twitter: @KateSawyer Instagram: @mskatesawyer

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    7 min
  • S7 Ep9 Margaret Meyer author of The Witching Tide
    Margaret Meyer, author of THE WITCHING TIDE.
    Guest chats about:
    • How a trip to the seaside sparked the idea for her debut novel
    • Why she decided to centre a non-speaking character, in order to give victims a voice
    • Centering working class and older characters in her writing
    • How the imagined village in her novel was created using many real life events in different places

    Guest Author: Margaret Meyer Twitter: @margaretmeyer_author Books: The Witching Tide by Margaret Meyer
    Host: Kate Sawyer Twitter: @katesawyer IG: @mskatesawyer Books: The Stranding by Kate Sawyer & This Family
    Margaret’s recommendations:
    The Colony - Audrey McGeeWashington Black -by Esi EdugyanA Sign of Her Own - Sarah Marsh
    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.
    1 hr 10 min
  • Minisode 29 - Celina Baljeet Basra - advice for stoking creativity & breaking through writer's block
    Celina Baljeet Basra author of HAPPY

    Guest: Celina Baljeet Basra Twitter: @CelinaBasra IG: @celinabasra

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

    If you enjoyed this 'minisode' please do check out our full-length episodes

    Novel Experience with Kate Sawyer is recorded and produced by Kate Sawyer - GET IN TOUCH Twitter: @KateSawyer Instagram: @mskatesawyer

    To receive transcripts and news to your inbox please SIGN UP FOR MY NEWSLETTER or visit https://www.mskatesawyer.com/novelexperiencepodcast for more information.
    7 min

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A podcast about writing and books for anyone who reads, writes or dreams of being published.

Guest authors, from across form and genres, all at different stages in their careers, generously…