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The Bestseller Experiment With Mark Stay and Mark Desvaux

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Channel: The Creative Penn · 2017 · Education

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Can you really decide to write and publish a bestseller?

In today's show, I discuss how Mark Stay and Mark Desvaux did just that in one year as well as talking about it in public on their podcast, The Bestseller Experiment.

You can always find the show notes and links at: http://www.thecreativepenn.com/podcasts/

Mark Stay and Mark Desvaux are the co-authors of Back to Reality, a best selling humorous fantasy novel that they launched. They launched their book off the back of The Bestseller Experiment, which is a podcast that enables them to write and publish a bestseller in a year.

Show Notes
The motivation for running a bestseller experiment
How the two Marks defined ‘bestseller' and how they got there
Tweeting with Neil Gaiman – and besting him in the charts
The conundrum of pre-orders
Comparisons to the indie music industry
Dealing with the let down after a big successful launch
On the future of The Bestseller Experiment podcast

You can find Mark and Mark at http://www.BestsellerExperiment.com and on Twitter @bestsellerxp

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