Tag: fiction

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!)
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Thanks to: Dom Currie for the jingle Emily Stay-Newton and Kai Stay-Newton for the edit 

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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!

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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

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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! 
LISTEN TO THE PODCAST

LINKS

https://writengeow.com

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…?

Beatles Ranking on Authorized

I’ve been a guest on the Authorized Podcast quite a few times, and I love chatting about novelisations and film-related books, but I was especially honoured to be asked to guest on one of their special ranking episodes a few weeks ago. Ostensibly, we were supposed to be ranking the Beatles books and films that we’d been discussing over the course of the season, but we started by discussing the Odyssey movie, the new Spider-Man and much, much more. It’s basically a cultural digest of cool stuff! Of course, if you want to skip all that and get to the Beatles stuff, that starts about an hour in. Enjoy (available from all podcast providers, but for some reason Spotify is the only link that will embed here… hey ho)…

And here are my previous Beatles episodes if you want to catch up…

Comic Con Also-Boughts… at the Canterbury Gaming Convention

I had a great time at this weekend’s Canterbury Gaming Convention and I asked the good people who bought my books what was the last book they read and loved…

Ivy Ngeow LIVE tonight (just after the eclipse)…

Join us live: WEDNESDAY 12TH AUGUST, 8PM BST
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Comic Con Also-Boughts: Tunbridge Wells August 2026

I’ve started asking people who buy my books at comic cons about the last book they read and loved…

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Ivy Ngeow on the Creative Difference Livestream

Ivy Ngeow is the award-winning author of The American Boyfriend, Heart of Glass, White Crane Strikes, Overboard and more, she writes gripping, page-turning fiction and she’s also a musician and expert on interior design and can probably solve world peace. She is definitely an author that you’ll want to catch live as she is a ton of fun.

Join us live: WEDNESDAY 12TH AUGUST, 8PM BST

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