The Bestseller Experiment

By Bestseller Experiment

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-publish... more

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How many episodes does The Bestseller Experiment have?

The podcast currently has 947 episodes available.

The Bestseller Experiment episodes:

October 15, 2023 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.br /
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Our novel Back To Reality is out now bestsellerexperiment.com/backtoreality
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1h 28min
October 12, 2023 EP474: Deep Dive — Mountain Ash Press with Andi Cumbo-Floyd & Caroline Topperman
Mountain Ash Press is the brainchild of authors Andi Cumbo-Floyd and Caroline Topperman who wanted to bring a combination of writer services and publication experience to create a new kind of Hybrid publisher. They talk about the challenges of being an independent publisher and what they can offer to authors.
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8min
October 11, 2023 EP474: Deep Dive — Mountain Ash Press with Andi Cumbo-Floyd Caroline Topperman
Mountain Ash Press is the brainchild of authors Andi Cumbo-Floyd and Caroline Topperman who wanted to bring a combination of writer services and publication experience to create a new kind of Hybrid publisher. They talk about the challenges of being an independent publisher and what they can offer to authors.br /
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Our novel Back To Reality is out now bestsellerexperiment.com/backtoreality
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8min
October 09, 2023 EP473: Julie Owen Moylan — “Tiny, Weird Obsessions."
Julie Owen Moylan is a novelist and filmmaker. Her graduation short film ‘BabyCakes’ scooped Best Film awards at the Swansea Film Festival where Ken Russell was a judge! And Julie has written two novels, THAT GREEN EYED GIRL and 73 DOVE STREET, which was released just this summer. Julie talks about how she knows when it’s the right time to tell a story, about her pivotal careers day at school, and why her tiny, weird obsessions make all the difference.
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1h 3min
October 08, 2023 EP473: Julie Owen Moylan — “Tiny, Weird Obsessions.
Julie Owen Moylan is a novelist and filmmaker. Her graduation short film ‘BabyCakes’ scooped Best Film awards at the Swansea Film Festival where Ken Russell was a judge! And Julie has written two novels, THAT GREEN EYED GIRL and 73 DOVE STREET, which was released just this summer. Julie talks about how she knows when it’s the right time to tell a story, about her pivotal careers day at school, and why her tiny, weird obsessions make all the difference.br /
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Our novel Back To Reality is out now bestsellerexperiment.com/backtoreality
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1h 3min
October 02, 2023 EP472: Gareth L Powell — “Be Kind, Be Encouraging."
The award-winning Gareth L. Powell returns to the podcast with Descendant Machine his new science fiction epic. He also tells about working with Peter F Hamilton, how starting a commercial thriller led him to writing his most personal book, how he wrote a book on writing almost by accident, and he gives us some insight to the future of authors and social media, but how being positive pays dividends.
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1h 16min
October 01, 2023 EP472: Gareth L Powell — “Be Kind, Be Encouraging.
The award-winning Gareth L. Powell returns to the podcast with Descendant Machine his new science fiction epic. He also tells about working with Peter F Hamilton, how starting a commercial thriller led him to writing his most personal book, how he wrote a book on writing almost by accident, and he gives us some insight to the future of authors and social media, but how being positive pays dividends.br /
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Our novel Back To Reality is out now bestsellerexperiment.com/backtoreality
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1h 16min
September 25, 2023 EP471: Jesse Sutanto — “Pure Writing."
Jesse Sutanto is the award-winning, bestselling author of Dial A for Aunties, Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Advice for Murderers and I’m Not Done With You Yet. Jesse tells how she learned about human behaviour through real estate and weddings, why she doesn’t dwell on projects that are on submission, and why she writes in 15 minute sprints she calls pure writing.
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1h 16min
September 24, 2023 EP471: Jesse Sutanto — “Pure Writing.
Jesse Sutanto is the award-winning, bestselling author of Dial A for Aunties, Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Advice for Murderers and I’m Not Done With You Yet. Jesse tells how she learned about human behaviour through real estate and weddings, why she doesn’t dwell on projects that are on submission, and why she writes in 15 minute sprints she calls pure writing.br /
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Our novel Back To Reality is out now bestsellerexperiment.com/backtoreality
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1h 16min
September 18, 2023 EP470: Suzie Edge — “Vital Organs, Poo & Wee!"
We are delighted to welcome back Suzie Edge for this special episode of the podcast! Suzie is a phenomenon on TikTok and after her smash hit debut book Mortal Monarchs she returns with Vital Organs, a wonderful dissection of history’s strangest body parts. Suzie takes us through her incredible career so far and reveals the role that vital organs, poo and wee and have played in getting her the ultimate accolade: an AI-generated biography on Amazon.
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52min

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