The Bestseller Experiment

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  • Summary

  • 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
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Episodes
  • 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
  • EP537: Maria Semple | How To Find Your Voice As A Writer

    EP537: Maria Semple | How To Find Your Voice As A Writer
    Dec 30 2024

    Have you every wondered how important your “Voice” is as a writer? This week on The Bestseller Experiment podcast, New York Times success Maria Semple tells us just how essential your voice is. Maria was recently named a “Power Author” by the Hollywood Reporter, putting her alongside such giants as JK Rowling and George RR Martin. Maria started as a screenwriter. Her book, Where’d You Go, Bernadette? spent over a year on the New York Times bestsellers. Her new book “Tomorrow Will Be Different” was announced as a TV series with Julia Roberts as the lead. She spoke to us about the things that stop us writing truthfully.
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    52 mins
  • EP536: A Christmas Special with Ian Rankin

    EP536: A Christmas Special with Ian Rankin
    Dec 23 2024

    A Christmas treat as we speak to bestselling author Ian Rankin who takes us through his incredible career, including tips on plotting, research, and his worst habit when writing, his favourite mistake (which he kept in the book) and he tells us his Sean Connery story…
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    1 hr and 15 mins

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