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 experi

Kelly Weekes answers listener questions on discovering who your readers are in a conversation that takes insocial media,comparable authors, visualising your readers, writing to market, goals, pain p

Sue Watson was BBC TV producer until she wrote her first novel and was hooked. Now shes a USA Today bestselling author and has sold over a million copies, but that success came as a second act in a w

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

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

Katy Brent is an award-winning journalist whose debut novel How To Kill Men and Get Away With It is perfect for fans of How To Kill Your Family and Killing Eve. Katy tells us how the novel evolved fro

Amita Parikhs debut novel The Circus Train took six years to write and has been earning praise worldwide, but it might never had happened if she hadnt found herself lost in London, asking for direct

Jeevani Charika is the author of Playing for Love, Picture Perfect and more, but shes also a scientist and has been experimenting with ChatGPT to discover if writers should fear our AI Overlords or e

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

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 ou