EP260: Barbara Poelle – The Hook, The Book & The Cook
In this exclusive Deep Dive episode for our Patreons: Barbara Poelle is a New York literary agent and author of Funny You Should Ask: Mostly Serious Answers to Mostly Serious Questions About the Publishing Industry. She answers our listener questions on trends, genre, slush piles, getting an agent, and generally de-mistifying the publishing industry. This […]
Continue readingArchive Rerun EP002: Bestselling Editors | Sam Eades & Juliet Ewers – Orion Books
In this week’s episode from the BXP Archives… In this episode you will discover… What does a commission editor do? It’s not just correcting your spelling! What’s changed in publishing? And how you can make the most of these opportunities. The most common mistakes by writers: And how you can avoid them. Don’t cheat your […]
Continue readingEP259: Science Fiction – A Deep Dive with Hannu Rajaniemi
In the first of an occasional series where we dive into specific genres, we look at science fiction with Hannu Rajaniemi, award-winning author of The Quantum Thief, The Fractal Prince, The Causal Angel, Summerland and more. We answer listener questions on defining the genre, keeping up on scientific developments, world building, how to generate story […]
Continue readingEP258: LJ Ross – Rebel with Four Million Sold
LJ Ross has long refused to play by other people’s rules and when she didn’t like the look of a publishing contract she struck out on her own. Over four million copies of her books have been sold to date and she’s still going strong. She answers our listener questions on marketing, pricing, Kindle and she tells […]
Continue readingArchive Rerun EP001: Who Buys Bestsellers? | Vics Tranter – Hachette
In this week’s episode from the BXP Archives… As we begin our epic quest to write and chart a book in one year, we need to discover what kind of person buys bestselling books. We turn to Hachette Book Group consumer insight expert Vics Tranter, who shares her experience and wisdom with us and we […]
Continue readingEP257: Making a Star Wars Documentary with David Whiteley
In this special episode, we speak to writer and producer David Whiteley about his Star Wars documentary The Galaxy Britain Built. David takes us through the journey of building a documentary idea into a feature-length documentary and an accompanying book. In this episode you will learn: The process of pitching a documentary to a broadcaster […]
Continue readingEP256: Caroline Mitchell and the Law of Attraction
Number one bestselling author Caroline Mitchell recently Tweeted that she had sold a million copies of her books since first getting published in 2013. Writing on her commute, Caroline started out by setting herself daily goals and moved from never having written before, to self-publishing, to awards and deals with Bookouture and Thomas & Mercer. […]
Continue readingEP255: The Itty Bitty Indie Experiment – A Deep Dive
When Robyn Sarty set up her own publisher, Belwood Publishing, she approached Sage Gordon-Davis about writing a series of sweet romance novels. In the first of a series we’ll be following Robyn and Sage through the year as they develop the books and prepare them for publication. They tell us how the idea came about, […]
Continue readingEP254: The BXP2020 Challenge Has Lift-Off
It’s 2020 and the BXP2020 challenge is off to an amazing start with over 118.5 million words pledged already! We’ve been overwhelmed by messages from listeners telling us it’s transformed the way they write. In this special live show, we share listener tips for making the most of the challenge and how you can get […]
Continue readingEP253: Kickstarter Tips with A.Y. Chao
Author A.Y. Chao tells us how she funded her debut novel Soul Affinity on Kickstarter in just 4 days! If you’ve never tried Kickstarter before, but always wanted to give it a try, this is a great episode to see just how it works and what strategies you could use to make your novel a […]
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