Ep510 – Gareth L Powell – How to sing a space opera
Gareth L Powell is one of the most generous authors on social media and a font of writing wisdom. He’s also the award-winning author of the Ack-Ack Macaque trilogy, his short stories have appeared in Interzone, Clarkesworld, and The Year’s Best Science Fiction, and he has written for The Guardian, The Irish Times, 2000AD and […]
Continue readingEP238: Ian W Sainsbury – Kindle Storyteller Award Winner
A special episode where we catch up with the winner of this year’s Kindle Storyteller Award, Ian W Sainsbury. Ian reveals how he took on a completely new genre to become an award-winner. We also have special interviews of all the finalists, including Claire Moore, Hannah Ellis, Emily Organ and Amazon’s Simon Johnson. PODCAST In […]
Continue readingEP161: A Marketing Masterclass with Sam Missingham
Sam Missingham, founder of Lounge Marketing, hijacks the show and grills us on how exactly we plan to sell ten thousand copies of our book by Glastonbury. We go into some serious detail on how you can market and publicise your book effectively. To support the show, check out bestsellerexperiment.com/support Our novel Back To Reality […]
Continue readingEP131: Sam Missingham – A massive boot up the arse for publishing
Sam Missingham fell in love with the quirks of the publishing industry when she started working at The Bookseller over a decade ago. Since then she has worked at HarperCollins as head of audience development, and now runs The Lounge, a marketing resource for writers. With an outsider’s perspective, she has been a pioneer of […]
Continue readingEP117: Gareth L Powell – How to sing a space opera
Gareth L Powell is one of the most generous authors on social media and a font of writing wisdom. He’s also the award-winning author of the Ack-Ack Macaque trilogy, his short stories have appeared in Interzone, Clarkesworld, and The Year’s Best Science Fiction, and he has written for The Guardian, The Irish Times, 2000AD and […]
Continue readingEP111: Live Show with Ben Willis
Another special YouTube Live episode featuring Orion editor Ben Willis with contributions from our wonderful Patreon supporters! Ben worked in book publicity for Transworld and Headline before joining Orion, where he now works as a commissioning editor for Orion Fiction. If you want to get involved with our live shows, become a chart topper patron […]
Continue readingEP74: This Week on The Bestseller Experiment Deep Dive of episode 073
Here are some clips of what is happening over on the Deep Dive at https://bestsellerexperiment.com/support PODCAST BUY Back to Reality – the novel from the Podcast Find out more at https://bestsellerexperiment.com/backtoreality Thanks for listening and joining us. Have some feedback you’d like to share? Leave a note in the comment section below. SPREAD THE LOVE If you enjoyed […]
Continue readingEP73: New Year’s Countdown to Your Favourite Episodes
A Happy New Year to all our listeners! In today’s special episode we conclude our thrilling countdown of our top 10 best episodes as voted for by you with our favourite clips from those shows! Who will come top? Listen now… To hear more of this episode in our deep dive, check out patreon.com/bestsellerexperiment Our […]
Continue readingEP72: Christmas Special
Merry Christmas to all our listeners! In today’s special episode we begin our countdown of our top 10 best episodes as voted for by you with our favourite clips from those shows! We start with, er… number 12… Course we do. To hear more of this episode in our deep dive, check out patreon.com/bestsellerexperiment Our […]
Continue readingEP60: Two Days to Go! Favourite Pod Moments
In the sixth of our daily mini-episodes in the run-up to publication of Back to Reality, The Two Marks look back at some of their favourite moments over the last year of the podcast. Check out bestsellerexperiment.com/backtoreality PODCAST Back to Reality – Out Mon 16th October Find out more at https://bestsellerexperiment.com/backtoreality Thanks for […]
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