Novel Experience

Journalist and author Sarah Hardy, author of THE WALLED GARDEN Sarah chats about: How writing a letter to a newspaper led to her journalism career at Vogue. How redundancy led her to writing her first novel How journalism taught her the discipline of writing every day How her home was the inspiration for her historical fiction debut How she writes flawed characters hoping to evoke compassion for t...

Author Wiz Wharton shares the advice she'd give to herself if she could go back to before she was published. Guest: Wiz Wharton author of GHOST GIRL, BANANA (Out May 18th in the UK - already out in the USA) 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.mska...

Author, Journalist and Podcaster Laura Price, author of SINGLE BALD FEMALE Laura chats about: How her cancer diagnosis lead her to start writing fiction How the Faber Academy helped her find her writing support system Her background in food journalism and how it led to her podcast LIFE IN FOOD Guest Author: Laura Price Twitter: @LauraPriceWrite IG: @LauraPriceWrite Books: Single Bald Female by Lau...

Author Alice Slater shares the advice she'd give to herself if she could go back to before she was published. Alice Slater, podcast host of WHAT PAGE ARE YOU ON? podcast and author of DEATH OF A BOOKSELLER which is published *today*! (Happy Publication Day Alice!) Novel Experience with Kate Sawyer is recorded and produced by Kate Sawyer - GET IN TOUCH To receive transcripts and news to your inbox...

Author, podcast host, event chair and plus-sized fashion influencer Bethany Rutter. Bethany talks about her first wonderful rom-com novel for adults WELCOME TO YOUR LIFE and the journey to writing her two YA hits NO BIG DEAL and MELT MY HEART. Bethany also chats about: how her background as a journalist and plus-sized fashion blogger led her to writing fiction how her book about dating is encourag...

Sunday Times best-selling author and book publicist to some of the biggest names in literature, Georgina Moore. George discusses her best-selling debut novel THE GARNETT GIRLS. George also chats about: what being a bookseller and publicist taught her about being published herself writing about women who are thriving in mid-life family saga and how it’s time for the UK to embrace the home-grown boo...

Liz Nugent author of BBC Between The Covers book club pick STRANGE SALLY DIAMOND and four previous crime thriller novels UNRAVELLING OLIVER, LYING IN WAIT, SKIN DEEP and OUR LITTLE CRUELTIES. Her novels have all been No1 Bestsellers and she has won four Irish Book Awards, as well as the James Joyce medal for Literature. Liz chats about: How the frustration of working in theatre and tv led her to w...

Author Elizabeth McKenzie shares the one piece of advice she'd give to herself if she could go back to before she was published. Elizabeth McKenzie, author of the currently Women’s Prize longlisted THE DOG OF THE NORTH and the previously Women’s Prize shortlisted THE PORTABLE VEBLEN If you enjoyed this 'minisode' please do check out our full-length episodes: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/n...

Sunday Times best-selling debut author Jo Browning Wroe discusses her Richard & Judy Bookclub pick novel A TERRIBLE KINDNESS. Jo chats about: researching and writing about people who care for the dead writing about Cambridge and Fitzbillie's Chelsea buns working with the Cambridge Literary Festival Taking time to work out how time works when you are writing Guest Author: Jo Browning Wroe Twitt...

Author Bethany Rutter shares the tool she uses to break through writers' block (or actually to tackle the problem of being stuck before getting stuck at all!) Bethany Rutter is an author, podcast host of WHAT PAGE ARE YOU ON, event chair and plus-sized fashionista. Check out her novels Welcome To Your Life by Bethany Rutter , Melt My Heart by Bethany Rutter , No Big Deal by Bethany Rutter and her...

There is no full-length episode of Novel Experience this week but there is some news. 1) It's Novel Experience's Birthday!! I've been making this podcast for a year, so this week I've made a few changes. 2) First change is the look- we got a face lift. I hope you like the new look. 3) I'm slowly transcribing the episodes you'll find them HERE or SIGN UP FOR MY NEWSLETTER to get them to your inbox...

Debut author and actor Bryan Moriaty. Bryan’s novel SOUNDS LIKE FUN, a charming gay rom-com, is published by Hodder Books and was the winner of the Irish Writer's Centre Novel Fair. Bryan chats about: writing acting monologues being the gateway drug that bought him to writing fiction how NaNoWriMo helped him draft his debut being selected by the Irish Writers’ Centre Novel Fair using Grindr as a m...

Award winning journalist and author, Sophie Haydock. Sophie's debut Novel THE FLAMES is the story of Egon Schieie’s four muses in early 20th century Vienna, which was published by Transworld in the UK and is soon to be published in the US. Sophie chats about: how she was inspired to write by an exhibition at the Courthald Gallery giving women from the past their voices the difficulties in depictin...

Journalist and debut author Cecile Pin. Author of Women's Prize long-listed WANDERING SOULS, a luminous debut about the lives of three young refugees and the echo their experience has through generations. Cecile chats about: how her philosophy degrees feed into her writing interviewing Ocean Vuong as her first journalism gig how the background of her book was pieced together using her own family h...

Kirsty Capes, author of the Women’s Prize long-listed CARELESS, the story of Bess a young woman who discovers she is pregnant while living in care, and LOVE ME, LOVE ME NOT, which deals with discovering your adoption as an adult, both published by Orion. Kirsty chats about: the three writing degrees that let her believe that writing was something she could do professionally balancing publicising y...

Award winning journalist and broadcaster Aingeala Flannery, author of THE AMUSEMENTS, a polyphonic portrait of the seaside town of Tramore in County Waterford Ireland. Aingeala chats about: the journalism career and how she transitioned to writing fiction her wonderful novel, how she wrote it and her reasons for setting it in Tramore structure and composite novels what makes a narrative satisfying...

Ania Bas, artist and debut author of the darkly comic ODD HOURS, about a misanthropic supermarket check-out girl who is finding herself despite her awful job, her irritating friends, her chaotic family and her terrible love life. Ania chats about: her education in Poland and how her early television viewing was formative how her career in visual arts led to writing and how it still informs her wor...

My guest today is Matson Taylor, author of Richard and Judy Bookclub pick THE MISEDUCATION OF EVIE EPWORTH about a young woman coming of age in the late 60's in rural Yorkshire and the follow-up novel, set ten years later, ALL ABOUT EVIE where Evie is finding out what living in the London she has always dreamed of is really like- both books are published by Simon & Schuster. Matson chats about...

Sarah Bonner, author of psychological thrillers HER PERFECT TWIN, about a woman who murders her twin, and the soon to be published HER SWEET REVENGE, another thriller full of suspense. Sarah chats about: how writing thrillers has surprising similarities to her career as an accountant the novel that started her writing journey but has yet to see the light of day how being made redundant during the...

Journalist and Sunday Times Bestselling author Clover Stroud. Clover is my first guest writer whose published books are non-fiction, or 'life-writing'. She is the author of THE WILD OTHER, about her travels and the catastrophic accident of her mothers that changed her family life, MY WILD AND SLEEPLESS NIGHTS, about motherhood in all its guises and her most recent book, THE RED OF MY BLOOD, about...

Jessica Moor author of KEEPER, a literary thriller dealing with suicide and domestic abuse and YOUNG WOMEN, a literary look at the intensity of female friendship and the 'Me Too' movement. Jess chats about: how habits and habit stacking can help with writing giving ourselves and others a break on social media why booksellers are such an important part of the ecology of publishing. Guest: Jessica M...

AK Blakemore, poet and author of the Costa Shortlisted, Demond Elliot prize winning, THE MANNINGTREE WITCHES, vital historical fiction about the East Anglian witch trials and the forthcoming THE GLUTTON, both published by Granta Books. Amy chats about: her early introduction to writing through her poetry the freedom that writing offers how a job other than writing can be a necessity for more than...

New York Times and Sunday Times Bestselling, Waterstones Author of The Year Bonnie Garmus, author of LESSONS IN CHEMISTRY the story of chemist Elizabeth Zott who ends up having to host an evening cooking show to make ends meet and uses it as a call to arms for the women of 1950s USA. Bonnie chats about: *not* writing what you know about balance in writing and the text you are writing how you can o...

Costa Award Winning & Women's Prize Shortlisted author Claire Fuller. Author of OUR ENDLESS NUMBERED DAYS, SWIMMING LESSONS, BITTER ORANGE, UNSETTLED GROUND and the forthcoming THE MEMORY OF ANIMALS. Claire chats about: the similarities between writing and her career in sculpture the power of marketing writing without a plan reading and reviewing other authors work Guest: Claire Fuller Twitter...

Award-winning author and musician Rónán Hession. Author of LEONARD AND HUNGRY PAUL and PANENKA. Ronan chats about: publishing with an indie publisher balancing his full time job as a civil servant with writing plotting your own creative development how reading outside the anglophone world can open your eyes to variety of structure writing like you're driving in the dark the power of word of mouth...