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EP443: JS Monroe — “Weird Alchemy”

JS Monroe worked as a foreign correspondent in Delhi, becoming a full-time writer. His psychological thriller Find Me became a bestseller in 2017, and, under the name Jon Stock, he is also the author of five spy thrillers. Warner Brothers bought the film rights to the Dead Spy Running trilogy hiring Oscar-winner Stephen Gaghan (Traffic, […]

EP378: Tim Sullivan — Character is more Important than the Crime

Tim Sullivan is a critically-acclaimed screenwriter who turned his back on Hollywood to self-publish thrillers. 250,000 downloads later Tim became a self-publishing phenomenon whose new DS Cross thriller The Patient is published by Head of Zeus. Tim takes us through his extraordinary career, the research he undertook to write a character with autism, and the role that […]

EP377: FMA Dixon — Finding Your Voice

FMA Dixon’s debut novel The Little House on Everywhere Street was awarded the inaugural Acheven Book Prize for Young Adult Fiction and is charming readers the world over. He tells us how he developed his craft and voice through short stories, and by creating a special gift for his daughter. . . In this episode […]

The Bestseller Experiment at the London Book Fair

Our very own Mr Stay was on the Quick, Quick, Slow panel at the London Book fair last week. He and fellow panellists — Justine Solomons, director of Byte The Book, Simon Appleby, director of Bookswarm, and Hermione Ireland, m.d. of The Académie du Vin Library — discussed the future of the publishing industry. You […]

EP186: Claire Handscombe – Myers-Briggs, Enneagrams and The West Wing

Claire Handscombe is a British writer whose obsession with The West Wing took her to Washington DC. Her debut novel, Unscripted, is out now and she tells us about how she used some remarkable psychological tools to develop her characters. Our novel Back To Reality is out now bestsellerexperiment.com/backtoreality PODCAST In This Episode You Will […]

EP180: The London Book Fair 2019

A special episode from the 2019 London Book Fair. We spoke to Nicola May about her novel The Corner Shop in Cockleberry Bay, which was number one on the UK Kindle store for over two months, we had a catch up with Orion’s Emad Akhtar between meetings with agents and TV and film scouts. Mr. Stay found […]