The Bestseller Experiment

We are delighted to welcome back Suzie Edge for this special episode of the podcast! Suzie is a phenomenon on TikTok and after her smash hit debut book Mortal Monarchs she returns with Vital Organs, a wonderful dissection of history’s strangest body parts. Suzie takes us through her incredible career so far and reveals the […] The post EP470: Suzie Edge — “Vital Organs, Poo & Wee!” appeared first on The Bestseller Experiment.

Harriet Muncaster is an award-winning author and illustrator. Her Isadora Moon books have sold over two million copies worldwide. And in 2020, Muncaster also published Bad and Glittering, the first part of her middle-grade series Victoria Stitch. And now she’s here with the latest Victoria Stitch book Dark & Sparkling. Harriet reveals how she develops […] The post EP469: Harriet Muncaster — “I Wanted to Create My Own World.” appeared first on The Bestseller Experiment.

Sarah Moorhead returns to the podcast with The Treatment, her extraordinary new novel that tackles issues of justice and revenge with compassion and heart. She reveals how she got back into writing after being dropped by her publisher and agent, and how being an idealist fuels her desire to keep telling great stories whatever it […] The post EP468: Sarah Moorhead — “Grit in the Oyster” appeared first on The Bestseller Experiment.

In this very special episode, international bestselling author Linwood Barclay returns to the podcast to tease us with details of his new thriller The Lie Maker. He gives us tips aplenty for writers, reveals how a correspondence with Ross Macdonald changed his career, why he loves collaborating with editors, and if he’ll ever co-write with […] The post EP467: Linwood Barclay — “The Lie Maker” appeared first on The Bestseller Experiment.

Teresa Driscoll is a former BBC TV news presenter whose psychological thrillers have sold over two million copies across the world. Her first thriller I Am Watching You hit Kindle Number 1 in the UK, USA and Australia and has sold more than a million copies in English alone. For decades, Teresa was a journalist […] The post EP466: Teresa Driscoll — “Be Genre Aware” appeared first on The Bestseller Experiment.

Damian Dibben is an acclaimed British author whose novels have been translated into twenty-seven languages and published in over forty countries. His series The History Keepers was an international publishing phenomenon. Dibben originally trained as an artist and scenic designer before becoming an actor and screenwriter. The Colour Storm is his second novel to explore […] The post EP465: Damian Dibben — “It Needs a Bit of Bite.” appeared first on The Bestseller Experiment.

AJ Pearce’s debut novel Dear Mrs Bird was a Sunday Times Bestseller and she returns with the third in the Emmy Lake series, Mrs Porter Calling. AJ tells us how writing started as a hobby, how it all very nearly went wrong with a plotless romcom, and how the Emmy Lake books were inspired by […] The post EP464: AJ Pearce — “Passion, patience & persistence.” appeared first on The Bestseller Experiment.

Antony Johnston is a New York Times bestselling author and the creator of Atomic Blonde, the comic book originally published as The Coldest City that was adapted into the movie starring Charlize Theron. For over twenty years he’s written books, graphic novels, video games, film, and more… And now he’s back with something a bit […] The post EP462: Antony Johnston — “Right Place, Right Time.” appeared first on The Bestseller Experiment.

Freya Berry’s writing career began as a journalist at Reuters. After a stint in New York reporting on the 2016 US election she left to write her acclaimed first novel, The Dictator’s Wife. With her new novel, The Birdcage Library, Freya has ended up creating a love story and a detective mystery, two things she […] The post EP461: Freya Berry — “Be Ambitious.” appeared first on The Bestseller Experiment.

Heide Goody and Iain Grant have been writing together since 2011 and are best known for their Clovenhoof series, where Satan is made redundant from Hell and sent to live in Birmingham. They tell us how their collaborative process has evolved and how they took everything they’ve learned over the years to launch their new […] The post EP460: Heide Goody & Iain Grant — “We Smush Our Methods Together.” appeared first on The Bestseller Experiment.

Paul Austin Ardoin is the USA TODAY Bestselling Author of The Fenway Stevenson Mysteries and the Woodhead & Becker Mysteries. And now Paul has a new non-fiction book: From Zero to Four Figures: Making $1000 a Month Self-Publishing Fiction, which brilliantly demystifies the process of making money as an indie author. If you’ve published one or more books […] The post EP459: Deep Dive — Making a Thousand Dollars a Month with Paul Austin Ardoin appeared first on The Bestseller Experiment.

Katherine Faulkner’s second thriller The Other Mothers takes us into the school playground and makes it a terrifying place with dark cliques and murderous secrets. Katherine tells us how finding structure and accountability helped her write her debut and how she discovered that the most important person in any novel is the reader. And in […] The post EP458: Katherine Faulkner — “It’s Not About Your Ego” appeared first on The Bestseller Experiment.

Sunday Times bestselling author Katie Fforde brings us her latest novel One Enchanted Evening, which was inspired by a cookery course. Katie has sold over 4.5 million copies in the UK alone and credits the Romantic Novelists’ Association with launching her career and she received their Lifetime Achievement Award in 2023. Katie tells us how […] The post EP457: Katie Fforde — “Keep The Page Turning.” appeared first on The Bestseller Experiment.

JD Kirk is the pen name multi-award-winning author, screenwriter, and writer of comics, Barry Hutchison. When he was nine, a kindly librarian wrote his name on the spine of a notebook in which he’d written a terrible short story, and put it on the shelf changing his life. Barry talks about writing over 200 books in 10 […] The post EP456: JD Kirk — “Libraries Change Lives” appeared first on The Bestseller Experiment.

Andrea Dunlop began her career in publishing as a publicist for the likes of Doubleday before becoming an author and consultant based in Seattle. Her latest novel, Women Are The Fiercest Creatures, is the story of three women written out of a successful tech startup’s history. Andrea worked for over 15 years in publishing and […] The post EP454: Andrea Dunlop — “Keeping Going is a Win.” appeared first on The Bestseller Experiment.

Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) is what search engines like Google use to pair questions with answers. If you want to be found online, then understanding how SEO works is essential. In this deep dive, SEO expert Kelsey E Meyers offers simple and effective tips for authors to help them and their books appear at the […] The post EP453: Deep Dive — SEO for Authors appeared first on The Bestseller Experiment.

James Naughtie’s voice as presenter of BBC Radio 4’s Today programme will be familiar to listeners all over the world. As well as writing non-fiction, he’s the author of the Will Flemyng thrillers the latest of which, The Spy Across the Water, takes readers from Washington DC to Ireland and the Highlands of Scotland. James […] The post EP452: James Naughtie — “A Sense of Place is Essential.” appeared first on The Bestseller Experiment.

Scarlett Brade was born in London, but as a child she spent her summers in Toronto where she fell in love with reading. She self-published her first novel aged twenty-three, but then decided to experience life a little more before returning with her amazing new thriller The Hive, about a chilling murder live-streamed on Instagram. […] The post EP451: Scarlett Brade — “Take Those First Steps” appeared first on The Bestseller Experiment.

Kelly Weekes answers listener questions on discovering who your readers are in a conversation that takes in social media, comparable authors, visualising your readers, writing to market, goals, pain points, and why authors should think of themselves as CEOs of their own business. Kelly has worked in the marketing departments of the biggest UK publishers, and on […] The post EP450: Deep Dive — Knowing your Readers appeared first on The Bestseller Experiment.

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 […] The post EP449: Sue Watson — “You’re Looking for the Answers” appeared first on The Bestseller Experiment.