The Bestseller Experiment

The Bestseller Experiment


Latest Episodes

EP461: Freya Berry — “Be Ambitious."
July 16, 2023

Freya Berrys 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 Dictators Wife. With her ne

EP460: Heide Goody & Iain Grant — “We Smush Our Methods Together."
July 09, 2023

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 ho

EP459: Deep Dive — Making a Thousand Dollars a Month with Paul Austin Ardoin
July 04, 2023

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

EP458: Katherine Faulkner — “It’s Not About Your Ego"
July 02, 2023

Katherine Faulkners 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 struc

EP457: Katie Fforde — “Keep The Page Turning."
June 25, 2023

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 credit

EP456: JD Kirk — “Libraries Change Lives"
June 18, 2023

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 hed wr

EP455: Deep Dive — How to Write a Novel with Tim Lott
June 14, 2023

Tim Lott is the multi award winning author of ten novels and a memoir, The Scent of Dried Roses, andhas been teaching writing for the last ten years, as a lecturer, teacher and mentor. With his new

EP454: Andrea Dunlop — “Keeping Going is a Win."
June 11, 2023

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

EP453: Deep Dive — SEO for Authors
June 08, 2023

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

EP452: James Naughtie — “A Sense of Place is Essential."
June 04, 2023

James Naughties voice as presenter of BBC Radio 4s Today programme will be familiar to listeners all over the world. As well as writing non-fiction, hes the author of the Will Flemyng thrillers the