EP349: Katie Khan — X meets Y Equals Bestseller

Katie Khan is the author of the bestsellers Hold Back the Stars and The Light Between Us, and now she’s a tutor at the Novelry, bringing her experience from both the film world and the book world to her students. Katie talks about inspirational teachers, writing around a day job, how getting feedback too soon can be counterproductive, and the lessons she’s learned from working with the likes of Paramount and Warner Bros.

In this episode you will discover:

How a grey X-meets-Y pitch can help sell your book.
What happens when you see similar ideas to yours already out there…
And how Katie thinks of story as a “chain of visuals”.

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Links:

The trailer for Mr Stay’s new film Unwelcome: https://youtu.be/vQCAgCKQ5WY
The new date for Mr Stay’s event with Ben Aaronovitch: https://www.waterstones.com/events/ben-aaronovitch/canterbury-rose-lane
The new date for Mr Stay’s ‘How to get published’ event on the Canterbury Fringe: https://www.rockpaperscissors.co.uk/collections/rock-paper-scissors-experiences/products/author-event-publish-or-self-publish
Katie’s website: https://katiekhan.com
SPOTLIGHT: Mark Hood: https://markhoodauthor.com/
Mark Hood’s Academy All Stars episode: https://bestsellerexperiment.com/academy-all-stars-mark-hood/
The Everyday Kindness Book: https://linktr.ee/EverydayKindness
THE BESTSELLER ACADEMY: bestsellerexperiment.com/academy
Pre-Order Mr Stay’s new book Babes in the Wood here: https://linktr.ee/WitchesOfWoodville
Sign up to the 200 Word A Day Challenge here: 200wordchallenge.com Here’s the 200 Word A Day Word Bank: https://bestsellerexperiment.com/bxp2020-word-count/
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- And here from Audible UK
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