The Bestseller Experiment

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EP450: Deep Dive — Knowing your Readers May 25, 2023

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Jeevani Charika is the author of Playing for Love, Picture Perfect and more, but she’s also a scientist and has been experimenting with ChatGPT to discover if writers should fear our AI Overlords or embrace them. Our novel Back To Reality is out now bestsellerexperiment.com/backtoreality

EP449: Sue Watson — “You’re Looking for the Answers" May 21, 2023

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Sue Watson was BBC TV producer until she wrote her first novel and was hooked. Now she’s a USA Today bestselling author and has sold over a million copies, but that success came as a second act in a writing career where she switched from romcoms to thrillers. Sue tells about that pivotal change, her latest thriller The Wedding Day, and how crime writers tell stories that take us to dark places to find difficult truths. Our novel Back To Reality is out now bestsellerexperiment.com/backtoreality

EP448: Jonathan Whitelaw — “Turn The Idea on its Head." May 14, 2023

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Jonathan Whitelaw started out as a journalist, writing darkly satirical fiction on his commute to work. Jonathan tells us how he went from thinking that he could never write a crime novel, to creating a new cosy crime series with The Bingo Hall Detectives and The Village Hall Vendetta featuring a son-in-law and mother-in-law crime solving duo! Our novel Back To Reality is out now bestsellerexperiment.com/backtoreality

EP447: Jessie Keane — “Don’t Be Afraid." May 07, 2023

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Jessie Keane has Romany heritage and her Gran — who had ’the sight’ — foretold that that Jesse would not only write, but be famous for it. 6.5 million copies later and with each book becoming a Sunday Times top ten bestseller, that prediction has come true. Jesse celebrates fifteen years since her debut novel, Dirty Game, with her latest thriller, Never Go Back. She tells us how she found her voice as a writer and why she never takes no for an answer. The Two Marks also answer the questions, ‘What’s the worst that can happen?’ by revealing their own most humiliating moments. Our novel Back To Reality is out now bestsellerexperiment.com/backtoreality

EP446: Katy Brent — “Doing Something Meaningful" Apr 30, 2023

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Twin brothers Zack and Michael Urlocker write together as M.Z. Urlocker, and their debut novel The Man from Mittelwerk is a 50s noir thriller with a dash of science fiction. They take us through their collaborative process, how they defined their roles in the project, and whether or not they’ll work together again. Our novel Back To Reality is out now bestsellerexperiment.com/backtoreality

EP445: Amita Parikh — “Don’t Be a Victim." Apr 23, 2023

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Amita Parikh’s debut novel The Circus Train took six years to write and has been earning praise worldwide, but it might never had happened if she hadn’t found herself lost in London, asking for directions. Amita tells us how she bounced back from rejection, why sport is the best way to train for writing, and how she created a writing habit. Our novel Back To Reality is out now bestsellerexperiment.com/backtoreality

EP444: Deep Dive — Experiments with ChatGPT with Jeevani Charika Apr 20, 2023

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EP443: JS Monroe — “Weird Alchemy" Apr 16, 2023

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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, Syriana) to write the screenplay for Dead Spy Running, and now he’s back writing as JS Monroe with NO PLACE TO HIDE, a thriller with a Faustian pact at its heart. Our novel Back To Reality is out now bestsellerexperiment.com/backtoreality

EP442: Deep Dive — Bookouture with Jenny Geras Apr 13, 2023

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In this special deep dive episode we speak to Jenny Geras, Managing Director at Bookouture. Jenny tell us what it is that makes this innovative digital first publisher so different, and she answers our listener questions on submissions, the difference in trends with digital and physical books, and if it pays to be prolific. Our novel Back To Reality is out now bestsellerexperiment.com/backtoreality

EP441: Delilah S Dawson — “It Was Always in my Head." Apr 09, 2023

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Delilah S Dawson is the New York Times bestselling author of Star Wars: Phasma and many more titles across an incredibly diverse backlist, and she returns with a new thriller called The Violence which explores themes of women of escaping domestic violence and reclaiming their power. Delilah also gives us tips for writing for big intellectual properties like Star Wars and Minecraft, and the writing habits that have made her so prolific and successful. Our novel Back To Reality is out now bestsellerexperiment.com/backtoreality

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