Bestseller Experiment Shortlisted for Best Podcast Award

We’re delighted to have been shortlisted as “Best Podcast” in this year’s FutureBookLive Awards by The Bookseller. Congratulations to all the nominees!    

Buzzfeed Feature Bestseller Experiment as “Podcast You Need To Listen To In 2018”

What an honour! Buzzfeed have just featured The Bestseller Experiment in their list of “27 Podcasts You Need To Start Listening To In 2018”. The podcast also hit #14 in iTunes in the US! And all because one of our listeners recommended us to them. Thank you Bethany Swafford! And thank you Scott Bryan, Tim Lane, Julia Furlan and the […]

We’re in the Independent

The Two Marks are interviewed in the Independent about their Bestseller Experiment podcast and how they took the advice of authors – who have sold over 100m books –  to write and create the Number 1 bestseller Back to Reality. To read the full interview, please visit: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/long_reads/writing-a-bestselling-book-a8065156.html

Publisher’s Weekly Feature

The Two Marks are interviewed in Publishers Weekly about their Bestseller Experiment podcast and how they took the advice of authors – who have sold over 100m books –  to write and create the Number 1 bestseller Back to Reality. To read the full interview, please visit: https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/authors/pw-select/article/75414-from-podcast-to-self-published-bestseller.html

Mon 16th Oct – Back to Reality Launch Party – Bestseller Experiment Live

To celebrate the launch of our novel Back to Reality, we are having a party, and YOU are invited! Join us to win amazing prizes, hear Bestseller Experiment live, chat with us and see if the book hits the Bestseller list! RSVP here…

Back to Reality Launch Party – You’re Invited!

Washington Post Feature

We are really grateful to have been referenced in an excellent article by Karen  Heller in the Washington Post. The article is a fascinating read entitled: “Meet the writers who still sell millions of books. Actually, hundreds of millions.” Have a read here.

NaNoWrimo Awarded ‘Lifetime Contribution to Writing’ by The Bestseller Experiment

Some of the NaNoWriMo team (from left to right): Marya Brennan, Katherine Gripp, Grant Faulkner (with Blobby), and Tim Kim.  ​The team at NaNoWrimo have been awarded a “Lifetime Contribution to Writing” by The Bestseller Experiment in acknowledgement for their incredible service to writing. Half a million writers a year benefit from the amazing not-for-profit organisation who provide free […]

Bestseller Experiment featured in the Guardian

A great interview and feature today in The Guardian with the Two Marks… The Bestseller Experiment: can you deliberately write a blockbuster book? Mark Stay and Mark Desvaux are picking up clues from publishers and authors in a new podcast, while they go about trying to write the next bestseller. Everyone may have a book […]

The Bestseller Experiment hits BBC Radio 4

We woke up this morning to a barrage of emails from people who just heard our podcast on BBC Radio 4 (Today). Quite unexpectedly we’ve seen the podcast go viral around the world in the last few weeks. Here’s the clip played on Radio 4: https://4ks_public.s3.amazonaws.com/bestsellerxp/podcast/2016-11-15_BBCRadio4_Bryan-Cranston.mp3 Listen to the full interview with Bryan Cranston here […]