Crikey, is it really ten years since we launched the Bestseller Experiment podcast?
What are your memories of the show? Was there an author or a piece of advice that inspired you? Please pop it in the comments…
A selection of spooky reads for Halloween
We have mystery and romance and fantasy. We have YA and adult. We have classics and new releases. We have cosy and spicy. We have trad and indie published. We have books I’ve enjoyed and those recommended to me (but which are still on my TBR!). And we have characters from every stripe of the…
A selection of spooky reads for Halloween
POPPY T PERRY: IF NOT NOW, WHEN? | MARK STAY’S CREATIVE DIFFERENCES
Author and artist Poppy T Perry tells us how her debut, Dead Real, was partly inspired by one of her children asking the all important question, “If not now, Mummy, when?” Get inspired and get writing with a fab episode where we discuss…
- How breaking rules helps you develop your voice
- Using zines to promote your books
- And the joys of being a 5am writer (no, really!)
Or watch it on Youtube…
Thanks to: Dom Currie for the jingle Emily Stay-Newton and Kai Stay-Newton for the edit
Join The Green Room: https://ko-fi.com/markstaywriter/tiers
Buy my books here: https://witchesofwoodville.com/#bookshop
And there’s more about me at: https://markstaywrites.com/
Join Simon McCleave on the Creative Differences Livestream
Join Simon McCleave, multi million-selling crime novelist, on the next CREATIVE DIFFERENCES LIVESTREAM!
Simon has worked as a scriptwriter on series such as Silent Witness, The Bill, EastEnders and many more. His first book, The Snowdonia Killings, was released in January 2020 and soon became an Amazon Bestseller, reaching No 1 in the UK Chart and selling over 400,000 copies. His twenty one subsequent novels in the DI Ruth Hunter Snowdonia Series have all been Amazon bestsellers, with most of them hitting the top of the digital charts. He has sold over 3.5 million books to date.
We’ll be discussing his latest smash hit thriller THE LIVERPOOL KILLINGS and much more. Join us live and be part of the conversation!
Or join us on Youtube…
Poppy T Perry on the Creative Differences Livestream
Poppy T Perry is an artist, an art tech and the author of the amazing Dead Real, in which Nora wants to tell her best friend and horror fan Ruby that she’s in love with her, but first there’s the small matter of the town being overrun by flesh-eating zombies.
We’ll be discussing…
- How it took a mere 15 years from Poppy’s first writing lesson to publication
- How she uses art and zines to promote her books
- And what it takes to be a 5am writer!
And much more!!
Join us live: TUESDAY 22ND SEPTEMBER, 8PM BST
Join us on Youtube…
Mysterious Murders Short Story Competition: Less than a month to go…
The End of Magic audiobook: 3 weeks to go…
Just three weeks till THE END OF MAGIC spills into the world’s ears via the miracle of audiobooks! It’s narrated by the amazing Dan Calley and you can be the first to hear it by preordering from your audiobook purveyor of choice here… https://rbmediaglobal.com/audiobook/9798349172847/
Ivy Ngeow: The Mistakes Make You | Mark Stay’s Creative Differences
Award-winning author Ivy Ngeow returns with a page-turning thriller In Safe Hands.
We discuss:
- Why books are like buildings
- How art is built on observation
- Why we shouldn’t fear our mistakes and much more!
LINKS
Thanks to:
Dom Currie for the jingle
Emily Stay-Newton and Kai Stay-Newton for the edit
Visit https://markstaycreativedifferences.com/
Join The Green Room: https://ko-fi.com/markstaywriter/tiers
Buy my books here: https://witchesofwoodville.com/#bookshop
And there’s more about me at: https://markstaywrites.com/
Things People say to Authors’ Dads at Comic Cons…
What made my dad so angry at this weekend’s comic con…?
Pre-Order The End of Magic audiobook!
The audiobook edition of THE END OF MAGIC now has a cover and pre-order links!
The narrator is the wonderful Mr Dan Calley, and the audiobook will be available from Audible, Apple, Libro, Barnes and Noble and many more (more, like Kobo etc, will be added in due course) on 22nd September.
Pre-orders are an important thing in this world of algorithms, so do please click on the image below (cover art courtesy of the amazing Alejandro Colucci) where the pre-order links will be revealed…
