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The Bestseller Experiment

The Bestseller Experiment

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 Join author and screenwriter Mark Stay with coach and entrepreneur Mark Desvaux, as they discover the secrets to writing a bestseller and challenge themselves and you to write, market and self-published a bestselling book in just one year. Each week, they are guided by and interview million-selling, chart-topping authors, publishers on the inside, editors, agents, social media specialists, and many more big names who play a part in the bestseller process. From the writing to marketing, plotting to publishing, learn the secrets to help you write your way to the top of the charts.(c) 2020 Mark Stay & Mark Desvaux Art Literary History & Criticism
Episodes
  • EP540: David Koepp – Everything You Write Moves You Forward

    EP540: David Koepp – Everything You Write Moves You Forward
    Feb 10 2025

    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 his writing process.
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    1 hr and 6 mins
  • EP539: Sarah Moorhead and Stuart Turton — Teacher, Student & Metempsychosis

    EP539: Sarah Moorhead and Stuart Turton — Teacher, Student & Metempsychosis
    Jan 27 2025

    Do you have a favourite teacher? One who encouraged you to write, maybe? This special episode is for all the teachers and students out there who have inspired one another over the years, and we have two of them on the show. Sarah Moorhead is the author of Witness X and started out as a teacher. One of her students was young Stuart Turton, author of The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle and The Devil and the Dark Water. They tell us how they reunited over Twitter and how discussing big ideas in the class can change the course of a life.
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    52 mins
  • EP538: Michelle Paver | Research To The Extreme

    EP538: Michelle Paver | Research To The Extreme
    Jan 13 2025

    How do you research your books? Michelle Paver has written eighteen novels, including the bestselling Chronicles Of Ancient Darkness. She’s encountered killer whales, wolves, polar bears and a runaway Yak, all in the name of research.
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    58 mins
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I hate the opening music/teasers, but the interviews are excellent! I think I hate the dramatics of the openings more BECAUSE it's quite a good podcast and they don't need it

excellent interviews

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