Best-selling cosy fantasy author Rebecca Thorne joins us this week for a deep dive into indie publishing! We also chat about how she started out on the traditional publishing route and was later inspired to try indie where she found incredible success and has since become a hybrid author, getting the best of both worlds!

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Literary agent, Marilia Savvides joins us this week to talk about her career and experiences in publishing and starting her own agency, The Plot.

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Author and aerospace engineer, Autumn Woods is with us this week to chat about her debut dark academia novel, explain what cottage core is, finding success on TikTok without putting herself in front of the camera and her obsession with commissioning artists to draw snapshots of her stories.

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Urban fantasy writer, Jackson P. Brown is here chatting about breaking into the publishing industry, the journey of a debut author and her love of anime and manga.

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Literary horror author, Leigh Radford tells us all about her darkly funny debut about love and zombies as well as her writing process and learning to navigate the high pressures of publishing and the literary world.

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Literary agent Abi Fellows joins us this week to chat about her career in publishing, how she approaches queries and submission and a success story for one of her debut authors despite the current challenges in the industry.

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Romantic fantasy author and TikTok creator Hazel McBride drops by to chat about her traditional debut, finding her agent through fan fiction and testing the waters of indie publishing.

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Comedy and crime writer, Faye Brann is with us this week chatting about her second novel, the choice to become a hybrid author and the differences between independent publishing and traditional publishing.

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Bestselling crime thriller author, Fiona Cummins is with us this week chatting about wishing she could plot her novels, learning and then teaching with the Faber Academy and how big splashy deals don't always lead to a sustainable writing career.

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Contemporary fiction author, Faith Hogan joins us this week to chat about her career as novelist, her process and writing crime fiction as Geraldine Hogan.

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