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- EP460: Heide Goody Iain Grant — “We Smush Our Methods Together.Heide Goody and Iain Grant have been writing together since 2011 and are best known for their Clovenhoof series, where Satan is made redundant from Hell and sent to live in Birmingham. They tell us how their collaborative process has evolved and how they took everything they’ve learned over the years to launch their new Cozy Craft Mysteries series under the pen name Millie Ravensworthbr /br /Our novel Back To Reality is out now bestsellerexperiment.com/backtoreality1 hr 25 min
- EP459: Deep Dive — Making a Thousand Dollars a Month with Paul Austin ArdoinPaul Austin Ardoin is the USA TODAY Bestselling Author of The Fenway Stevenson Mysteries and the Woodhead & Becker Mysteries. And now Paul has a new non-fiction book: From Zero to Four Figures: Making $1000 a Month Self-Publishing Fiction, which brilliantly demystifies the process of making money as an indie author. If you've published one or more books but are struggling to get sales then this is the book for you. We discuss setting goals, financial realities, meeting reader expectations, using your book as an advertisement and much more.9 min
- EP459: Deep Dive — Making a Thousand Dollars a Month with Paul Austin ArdoinPaul Austin Ardoin is the USA TODAY Bestselling Author of The Fenway Stevenson Mysteries and the Woodhead Becker Mysteries. And now Paul has a new non-fiction book: From Zero to Four Figures: Making $1000 a Month Self-Publishing Fiction, which brilliantly demystifies the process of making money as an indie author. If you've published one or more books but are struggling to get sales then this is the book for you. We discuss setting goals, financial realities, meeting reader expectations, using your book as an advertisement and much more.br /br /Our novel Back To Reality is out now bestsellerexperiment.com/backtoreality10 min
- EP458: Katherine Faulkner — "It's Not About Your Ego"
Katherine Faulkner's second thriller The Other Mothers takes us into the school playground and makes it a terrifying place with dark cliques and murderous secrets. Katherine tells us how finding structure and accountability helped her write her debut and how she discovered that the most important person in any novel is the reader.
1 hr 21 min - EP458: Katherine Faulkner — “It’s Not About Your EgoKatherine Faulkner’s second thriller The Other Mothers takes us into the school playground and makes it a terrifying place with dark cliques and murderous secrets. Katherine tells us how finding structure and accountability helped her write her debut and how she discovered that the most important person in any novel is the reader.br /br /Our novel Back To Reality is out now bestsellerexperiment.com/backtoreality1 hr 21 min
- EP457: Katie Fforde — "Keep The Page Turning."
Sunday Times bestselling author Katie Fforde brings us her latest novel One Enchanted Evening, which was inspired by a cookery course. Katie has sold over 4.5 million copies in the UK alone and credits the Romantic Novelists' Association with launching her career and she received their Lifetime Achievement Award in 2023. Katie tells us how she started reading Mills & Boon books on the sly, finding time to write with a busy life, and her secret desire to write in another genre...
1 hr 15 min - EP457: Katie Fforde — “Keep The Page Turning.Sunday Times bestselling author Katie Fforde brings us her latest novel One Enchanted Evening, which was inspired by a cookery course. Katie has sold over 4.5 million copies in the UK alone and credits the Romantic Novelists’ Association with launching her career and she received their Lifetime Achievement Award in 2023. Katie tells us how she started reading Mills Boon books on the sly, finding time to write with a busy life, and her secret desire to write in another genre...br /br /Our novel Back To Reality is out now bestsellerexperiment.com/backtoreality1 hr 15 min
- EP456: JD Kirk — "Libraries Change Lives"
JD Kirk is the pen name multi-award-winning author, screenwriter, and writer of comics, Barry Hutchison. When he was nine, a kindly librarian wrote his name on the spine of a notebook in which he'd written a terrible short story, and put it on the shelf changing his life. Barry talks about writing over 200 books in 10 years, ignoring the naysayers, and how discovering how a condition called aphantasia may have affected his writing. Mr D reveals his secret superpower, and Mr Stay rants about comic books.
1 hr 16 min - EP456: JD Kirk — “Libraries Change LivesJD Kirk is the pen name multi-award-winning author, screenwriter, and writer of comics, Barry Hutchison. When he was nine, a kindly librarian wrote his name on the spine of a notebook in which he’d written a terrible short story, and put it on the shelf changing his life. Barry talks about writing over 200 books in 10 years, ignoring the naysayers, and how discovering how a condition called aphantasia may have affected his writing. Mr D reveals his secret superpower, and Mr Stay rants about comic books.br /br /Our novel Back To Reality is out now bestsellerexperiment.com/backtoreality1 hr 16 min
- EP455: Deep Dive — How to Write a Novel with Tim Lott
Tim Lott is the multi award winning author of ten novels and a memoir, The Scent of Dried Roses, and has been teaching writing for the last ten years, as a lecturer, teacher and mentor. With his new book, Yes! No! But Wait...!: The One Thing You Need to Know To Write a Novel, Tim has produced a book on writing that is honest, practical and genuinely useful.
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About The Bestseller Experiment
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Join author and screenwriter Mark Stay with coach and entrepreneur 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.
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