Ep484 — Mike Gayle — “Always be Entertaining.”

Mike Gayle joins us to celebrate the 25th anniversary of his Sunday Times top ten bestseller debut novel My Legendary Girlfriend and the release of his 18th novel A Song of Me and You, a story of mid-life crisis inspired by a quote from Jim Carrey. Mike takes us from Birmingham to London and his career as a journalist, writing as an agony uncle for teenage girls’ magazine Bliss before becoming Features Editor on Just Seventeen and he reveals the essential lesson he learned writing for the readers of those mags.

And in the extended version for Academy members and podcast Patrons, the Two Marks discuss outlining, keeping fit and healthy as a writer, writing non-fiction and much more!

WE DISCUSS…

Making unlikeable characters engaging…
What Mike thought when he re-read his 25-year-old debut novel My Legendary Girlfriend
And why we should Always be Entertaining…

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