Novel Experience

Guest: Buki Papillon Twitter: @bukipapillon Instagram: @bukipapillon Books: AN ORDINARY WONDER If you enjoyed this 'minisode' please do check out our full-length episodes Novel Experience with Kate Sawyer is recorded and produced by Kate Sawyer - GET IN TOUCH Twitter: @KateSawyer Instagram: @mskatesawyer To receive transcripts and news to your inbox please SIGN UP FOR MY NEWSLETTER or visit https:...

Kia Abdullah, author of Waterstones Thriller of the Month THOSE PEOPLE NEXT DOOR. Kia chats about: The role that her local library played in her journey to becoming an author Writing morally ambiguous characters to provoke bookclub debate How she’s a plotter (but wishes she didn’t) How she knows what her characters look like, before she even writes a word The struggle to make a living wage as a wr...

Guest: Helen Cooper Twitter: @helencooper85 Instagram: @helencooperwriter Books: THE COUPLE IN THE PHOTO , THE OTHER GUEST , THE DOWNSTAIRS NEIGHBOUR If you enjoyed this 'minisode' please do check out our full-length episodes Novel Experience with Kate Sawyer is recorded and produced by Kate Sawyer - GET IN TOUCH Twitter: @KateSawyer Instagram: @mskatesawyer To receive transcripts and news to your...

Debut author Claire Daverley, author of TALKING AT NIGHT. Claire chats about: Writing an epic lovestory and how plotting involved working out the optimal time for kissing! Her background working in marketing for art and books How the Faber Academy changed everything for her The breakthrough that came from working out how to make her quiet novels louder! Thinking about the rhythm of her prose and h...

Guest: Maz Evans Twitter: @maryaliceevans Instagram: @mazauthor Books: OVER MY DEAD BODY If you enjoyed this 'minisode' please do check out our full-length episodes Novel Experience with Kate Sawyer is recorded and produced by Kate Sawyer - GET IN TOUCH Twitter: @KateSawyer Instagram: @mskatesawyer To receive transcripts and news to your inbox please SIGN UP FOR MY NEWSLETTER or visit https://www....

Debut author Khashayar J. Khabushani, author of I Will Greet The Sun Again. Khash chats about: How coming out as an Artist held almost as many challenges as coming out as Queer The transformative power of the Columbia University MFA Writing from memories and remembered senses Writing to make amends to his childhood self and his inner child Writing hope and joy into a story with trauma and challeng...

Guest: Bobby Palmer Twitter: @thebobpalmer Instagram: @thebobpalmer Books: ISAAC AND THE EGG If you enjoyed this 'minisode' please do check out our full-length episodes Novel Experience with Kate Sawyer is recorded and produced by Kate Sawyer - GET IN TOUCH Twitter: @KateSawyer Instagram: @mskatesawyer To receive transcripts and news to your inbox please SIGN UP FOR MY NEWSLETTER or visit https://...

Booker Prize Shortlisted author Paul Murray, author of THE BEE STING, THE MARK AND THE VOID, SKIPPY DIES and AN EVENING OF LONG GOODBYES. Paul chats about: The role Ali Smith and John Boyne played in his journey to becoming an author How he writes all his longhand and how a first draft is a stack of loose sheets of paper Being careful about what you allow into your head when you are writing Whethe...

Guest: Julie Owen-Moylan Twitter: @julieowenmoylan Instagram: @julieowenmoy lan Books: 73, DOVE STREET , THAT GREEN EYED GIRL If you enjoyed this 'minisode' please do check out our full-length episodes Novel Experience with Kate Sawyer is recorded and produced by Kate Sawyer - GET IN TOUCH Twitter: @KateSawyer Instagram: @mskatesawyer To receive transcripts and news to your inbox please SIGN UP FO...

Author, Presenter and Travel Journalist Kate Maxwell, author of HUSH. Kate chats about: Her work as a travel journalist Living in and writing New York Researching fertility treatment and writing about donor assisted conception Being shortlisted for the Bridport prize (and how she’d recommend every aspiring author to submit work to it!) How she knew what she wanted in an agent Guest Author: Kate Ma...

Guest: Natasha Calder Books: WHETHER VIOLENT OR NATURAL If you enjoyed this 'minisode' please do check out our full-length episodes Novel Experience with Kate Sawyer is recorded and produced by Kate Sawyer - GET IN TOUCH Twitter: @KateSawyer Instagram: @mskatesawyer To receive transcripts and news to your inbox please SIGN UP FOR MY NEWSLETTER or visit https://www.mskatesawyer.com/novelexperiencep...

Author and Creative Writing Lecturer Ashley Hickson-Lovence, author of YOUR SHOW & THE 392. Ashley chats about: Being inspired by a great English teacher Writing with rhythm and how music and dancing influence his prose Drawing on people from real life to build characters How his own experiences of refereeing football led to his second novel and his Phd Writing in the second person How Homes U...

Guest: Polly Crosby Twitter: @writerpolly Instagram: @writerpolly Books: VITA AND THE BIRDS , THE UNRAVELLING , THE ILLUSTRATED CHILD If you enjoyed this 'minisode' please do check out our full-length episodes Novel Experience with Kate Sawyer is recorded and produced by Kate Sawyer - GET IN TOUCH Twitter: @KateSawyer Instagram: @mskatesawyer To receive transcripts and news to your inbox please SI...

Author and Arts Critic Chloë Ashby, author of SECOND SELF and WET PAINT. Chloë chats about: Her career as an Arts Critic The transformational power of the Faber Academy Representations of whales in literature and art Writing about the decisions involved in choices about motherhood and not-motherhood. TW: Fertility Guest Author: Chloë Ashby Twitter: @chloeashby IG: @chloeashby Books: Wet Paint by C...

Guest: Laura Kay Twitter: @lauraelizakay Instagram: @lauraekay Books: WILD THINGS , TELL ME EVERYTHING , THE SPLIT Novel Experience with Kate Sawyer is recorded and produced by Kate Sawyer - GET IN TOUCH Twitter: @KateSawyer Instagram: @mskatesawyer To receive transcripts and news to your inbox please SIGN UP FOR MY NEWSLETTER or visit https://www.mskatesawyer.com/novelexperiencepodcast for more i...

Author Liz Hyder shares some advice that helps her to break through block when she becomes stuck in her writing. Guest: Liz Hyder Twitter: @londonbessie Instagram: @londonbessie Books: THE ILLUSIONS , THE GIFTS , BEARMOUTH If you enjoyed this 'minisode' please do check out our full-length episodes Novel Experience with Kate Sawyer is recorded and produced by Kate Sawyer - GET IN TOUCH Twitter: @Ka...

Author, Editor and Podcaster Alice Slater. Author of Death of A Bookseller a slighted twisted crime thriller about bookselling, obsession and true crime. Alice chats about: Her love for booksellers Her background in bookselling, how it fed into the way she wrote her book and how she’s approached being published herself Her work with and being inspired by Mslexia How copywriting for a day job creat...

Anne Griffin author of WHEN ALL IS SAID, LISTENING STILL and THE ISLAND OF LONGING her powerful new novel about grief, hope and community Anne chats about: Her background as a book buyer How she was in her mid-forties before she started writing How she wrote a novel with the title of her third book, before she was published Second novel ‘syndrome’ being very real but third novel syndrome being a t...

Karen Angelico author of Everything We Are a beautifully written a dark and addictive exploration of modern relationships, which plumbs the depths of the human heart. Karen chats about: Her background as an antique jewellery valuer and recruitment consultant Writing with the pram in the hall (or in her case, four prams in the hall!) The biggest thing that has stayed with her since her time on the...

Author and Screenwriter Wiz Wharton, author of GHOST GIRL, BANANA a brilliant historical fiction novel told in two time lines, one in London and one in Hong Kong, about family, identity and belonging. Wiz chats about: How she trained to write for stage and screen before turning her hand to fiction How she turned down offers for her first novel because she realised it wasn’t in the genre she wanted...

Author Jo Browning Wroe shares the advice she always gives her creative writing students and the advice that she’s stuck to throughout her own journey to get published. Guest: Jo Browning Wroe author of A TERRIBLE KINDNESS If you enjoyed this 'minisode' please do check out our full-length episodes Novel Experience with Kate Sawyer is recorded and produced by Kate Sawyer - GET IN TOUCH To receive t...

Elizabeth McKenzie, author of THE PORTABLE VEBLEN & the Women’s Prize Longlisted THE DOG OF THE NORTH which is an hilarious and epic road trip novel about family and finding yourself when your life has fallen apart Elizabeth chats about: How exaggerating when she was studying journalism made her realise that fiction was the route her writing should take Why working in publishing was the best t...

Author Liz Nugent shares the tricks she implements to help stimulate her creativity or break through writers’ block Guest: Liz Nugent author of STRANGE SALLY DIAMOND Novel Experience with Kate Sawyer is recorded and produced by Kate Sawyer - GET IN TOUCH To receive transcripts and news to your inbox please SIGN UP FOR MY NEWSLETTER or visit https://www.mskatesawyer.com/novelexperiencepodcast for m...

Jamie Fewery, author of OUR LIFE IN A DAY, THE WAY BACK and the just about to be published THE BRINK a rom-com told in reverse about a couple on the brink of divorce. Jamie chats about: Being part of the marketing team who made Fifty Shades of Grey go stratospheric, and what it taught him about being published himself How the first novel he went on submission with wasn’t the book he first publishe...

Author Anne Griffin shares the advice she'd give to herself if she could go back to before she was published. Guest: Anne Griffin author of WHEN ALL IS SAID , LISTENING STILL & the shortly to be published THE ISLAND OF LONGING Novel Experience with Kate Sawyer is recorded and produced by Kate Sawyer - GET IN TOUCH To receive transcripts and news to your inbox please SIGN UP FOR MY NEWSLETTER o...