The Bestseller Experiment

The Bestseller Experiment

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The Bestseller Experiment episodes

  • EP481: Jake Lamar — "Make it Sing."
    Jake Lamar developed his latest work Viper's Dream as both a radio play and a novel. Jake tells us what he learned working for Time magazine, gives us a crucial tip for writing about real figures from recent history, and how he learned to make his writing sing...
    1 hr 26 min
  • EP480: Graham Hurley — "Soft Linkage."

    The author of 49 books and counting, Graham Hurley returns with his latest WWII thriller The Blood of Others. He takes us through his extraordinary career and discusses writing in a genre that he wasn't a fan of, writing a series without a recurring lead character and the benefits of long publisher lunches.

    1 hr 12 min
  • EP479: Fiona Valpy — "Say Yes to Everything."

    Fiona is an acclaimed bestselling author, whose books have sold millions of copies and been translated into more than thirty different languages worldwide. Her latest novel is The Cypress Maze, set in Tuscany and is the perfect book for these long winter nights. Fiona has a degree in Geography, has worked as an IT systems engineer, then in PR and marketing and the wine industry and as a yoga teacher... but writing is when it all made sense.

    1 hr 7 min
  • EP478: Mira V Shah — "Healing Through Writing."

    Mira V Shah is a British-African-Indian author and legal writer who lives in North London with her husband, three good dogs and one mediocre cat. She studied History at the University of Warwick before practising as a City lawyer. During the pandemic, Mira wrote her first ever novel, HER, a psychological drama, which explores themes of female friendship, flawed perception, trauma and race. Mira tells about writing the novel during lockdown, telling the story from two different perspectives, and how she's carved out time to write.

    1 hr 6 min
  • Ep478 — Mira V Shah — “Healing Through Writing.
    Mira V Shah is a British-African-Indian author and legal writer who lives in North London with her husband, three good dogs and one mediocre cat. She studied History at the University of Warwick before practising as a City lawyer. During the pandemic, Mira wrote her first ever novel, HER, a psychological drama, which explores themes of female friendship, flawed perception, trauma and race. Mira tells about writing the novel during lockdown, telling the story from two different perspectives, and how she’s carved out time to write.br /
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    Our novel Back To Reality is out now bestsellerexperiment.com/backtoreality
    1 hr 6 min
  • EP477: Michael R Miller — "A Sprinkle of My Experience"
    Hailing from Scotland's wet and wild west coast, Michael writes sweeping and epic fantasy and since 2018 has sold over 330,000 books topping Amazon and Audible charts along the way. He's also worked for Bloomsbury publishing, and is the co-founder of digital publisher Portal Books. He's written The Dragon's Blade trilogy and now returns with Defiant, the third book in the ongoing Songs of Chaos series. Michael tells us how he's found success in epic fantasy and epic audiobooks, and how he's taken the challenges in his own life and used them to add a personal touch to his writing and fantasy worldbuilding.
    1 hr 14 min
  • Ep477 — Michael R Miller — “A Sprinkle of My Experience
    Hailing from Scotland's wet and wild west coast, Michael writes sweeping and epic fantasy and since 2018 has sold over 330,000 books topping Amazon and Audible charts along the way. He’s also worked for Bloomsbury publishing, and is the co-founder of digital publisher Portal Books. He’s written The Dragon’s Blade trilogy and now returns with Defiant, the third book in the ongoing Songs of Chaos series. Michael tells us how he’s found success in epic fantasy and epic audiobooks, and how he’s taken the challenges in his own life and used them to add a personal touch to his writing and fantasy worldbuilding.br /
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    Our novel Back To Reality is out now bestsellerexperiment.com/backtoreality
    1 hr 14 min
  • EP476: IVY NGEOW — "EMOTION MORE THAN ANYTHING."
    Ivy Ngeow was born and raised in Malaysia and is a multi-award winning author. Her latest novel The American Boyfriend was longlisted for the Avon x Mushens Entertainment Prize for Commercial Fiction Writers of Colour 2022. Ivy is a musician, she's also written non-fiction cookery books, diet books, interior design books, she sells tie-in merch for her fiction, she's a powerhouse of creativity and she tells us how it all began with a house full of boring books.
    1 hr 13 min
  • Ep476 — IVY NGEOW — “EMOTION MORE THAN ANYTHING.
    Ivy Ngeow was born and raised in Malaysia and is a multi-award winning author. Her latest novel The American Boyfriend was longlisted for the Avon x Mushens Entertainment Prize for Commercial Fiction Writers of Colour 2022. Ivy is a musician, she’s also written non-fiction cookery books, diet books, interior design books, she sells tie-in merch for her fiction, she’s a powerhouse of creativity and she tells us how it all began with a house full of boring books.br /
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    Our novel Back To Reality is out now bestsellerexperiment.com/backtoreality
    1 hr 13 min
  • EP475: Heather Morris — "Shut up and Listen!"
    We celebrate seven years of the podcast with the amazing Heather Morris, author of The Tattooist of Auschwitz, which has sold over 6 million copies worldwide. She returns with a new novel, Sisters Under The Rising Sun, which transports the reader to the women in Japanese POW camps in WWII and is another incredibly powerful story. Heather talks about the role of listening in her work, creating fiction from reality, and what she learned from screenwriting.
    1 hr 28 min

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