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Behind the Bestseller
Behind the Bestseller: what makes a book a success? Bestselling author Sam Blake talks to authors, editors, publicists and agents to find out exactly what that magic ingredient is.
Behind the Bestseller #7 | Sam Blake talks to Darach Ó Séaghdha
Non-fiction is a different beast to fiction, and in this episode Sam Blake chats to Darach Ó Séaghdha, the Irish writer, podcaster and Irish language activist. The author of Motherfoclóir: Dispatches from a Not So Dead Language (Head of…
Behind the Bestseller #6 | Sam Blake talks with Sinéad Moriarty
From piling up the rejection slips Sinéad Moriarty joined a writers group and wrote the book that was closest to her heart. Drawing on her personal experience The Baby Trail immediately hit the bestseller list and kickstarted a career that…
Behind the Bestseller #5 | Sam Blake talks to Sallyanne Sweeney
In a double length episode Sam Blake quizzes Literary Agent Sallyanne Sweeney from MMB Creative on what she looks for in a new manuscript and how she wades through often 300 submissions a week. Sallyanne answers the age old question of what…
Behind the Bestseller #4 | Sam Blake talks to Ruth Long
Romance is the biggest selling genre worldwide and award winning author Ruth Long, in all her various incarnations as RF Long, Ruth Francis Long and Jessica Thorne, writes romance combined with fantasy - from parallel worlds to sci-fi space…
Behind the Bestseller #3 | Sam Blake talks to Claire Allan
From her life as a journalist in Northern Ireland to her first women's fiction book, Claire Allan's publishing journey was punctuated by key life events. In Behind the Bestseller she reveals what made her take that first step into fiction…
Behind the Bestseller #2 | Sam Blake talks to Shane Dunphy
From critically acclaimed non fiction that has spawned a movie in production, to beselling fiction, and now an exciting audio adventure, Shane Dunphy's career started with a book he needed to write. In this episode of Behind the…
Behind the Bestseller #1 | Catherine Ryan Howard
Behind the Bestseller: what makes a book a success? Bestselling author Sam Blake talks to authors, editors, publicists and agents to find out exactly what that magic ingredient is. This week, Sam Blake chats to Catherine Ryan Howard, an…
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Behind the Bestseller: what makes a book a success? Bestselling author Sam Blake talks to authors, editors, publicists and agents to find out exactly what that magic ingredient is.
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