EP240: Garth Nix – The Next Book Can Change Everything
Garth Nix is a global bestselling author with over 5 million copies sold. He takes us through his extraordinary career from working in publishing, to being told he was a “one book wonder”, and his surefire solution to solving those big writing problems… PODCAST In This Episode You Will Discover… The biggest lessons he learned […]
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 readingEP236: RJ Barker Returns
We welcome RJ Barker back to the podcast who triumphantly returns with his new book The Bone Ships. Starting a new series is never easy and RJ talks honestly about the self-doubt that all writers experience and he gives us a quick masterclass in pitching a series to a publisher. PODCAST In This Episode You […]
Continue readingEP234: LIVE SHOW Highlights – Writers and Mental Health pt2
We celebrate three years of the podcast with a packed live episode in which we continue our conversation with our listeners about writers and mental health. This is a very special episode where our listeners share some of the ways they cope with anxiety, depression and more. PODCAST In This Episode You Will Discover… How […]
Continue readingEP232: Keith A Pearson – Do The Opposite & Sell 100k
Keith published his first book as part of a drunken bet. There was no big plan and, by his own admission, he knew nothing of publishing and broke all the rules and made every mistake. And yet, just three years later, he has sold over 100,000 copies of his books and regularly tops the bestseller […]
Continue readingEP231: One Page Punch-Ups with Juliet Ewers
We are delighted to welcome back Orion Publishing’s Associate Editor Juliet Ewers to critique our latest round of One Page Punch-Ups. These are pages sent in by our Chart Topper Patreons. We read them and critique them and all learn a little something that we can use in our writing. And you can read along […]
Continue readingEP229: David Koepp – Everything You Write Moves You Forward
David Koepp is one of the most successful screenwriters in Hollywood history. With a collective box office somewhere in the region of $250b he’s written Jurassic Park, Spider-Man, Death Becomes Her and many, many more. We were delighted to talk to David about his fantastic new novel COLD STORAGE and to get an insight into […]
Continue readingEP227: Phoebe Locke – Using Therapy To Create Characters
Phoebe Locke is the pseudonym of Nicci Cloke. Phoebe’s book The July Girls takes the life of a character from age ten to twenty-five, and in a fascinating interview Phoebe tells us how she had therapy sessions as one of her characters. PODCAST In This Episode You Will Discover… Why she writes under two different […]
Continue readingEP225: Kim Bretton – Working with ACX Audiobooks Producers
Kim Bretton is an actor and has worked in theatre, TV and film, but these days she’s found great success producing and narrating audiobooks in Nashville. We talk to Kim about her career shift into audiobooks and the spooky connection she had with Back to Reality. PODCAST In This Episode You Will Discover… How Kim […]
Continue readingEP224: Edward Cox – Amazing Worlds Built From Notebooks
Edward Cox is the Gemmell Award-nominated author of the Relic Guild trilogy, and with his new book Song of the Sycamore he builds an incredible world, both magical and believable, and it all starts with scribblings in notebooks. PODCAST In This Episode You Will Discover… How to balance characterisation, plot and world building How to […]
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