I love talking to authors, and finding out about their inspiration and process – myself and my late literary agent, the brilliant Simon Trewin, started a series of Facebook Live chats at the start of lockdown in 2020, Winning the Writing Game. We’ve chatted to some phenomenal authors: Joanne Harris, Kit de Waal, Adele Parks, Andrew Miller and many more. Simon covered literary fiction, and I chatted to the crime writers, some of whom you’ll find below.

Below too, find links to my podcast Behind the Bestseller.

Sam Blake chats to Alex Michaelides

Sam Blake chats to Linwood Barclay

Sam Blake chats to Maxine Mei-Fung Chung

Behind the Bestseller Podcast Series

Click here to listen in to Sam Blake’s Behind the Bestseller podcast via Headstuff – twelve episodes with:

ER Murray, Carmel Harrington, Jane Casey, Hazel Gaynor, Alex Barclay, Darach Ó Séaghdha, Sinead Moriarty, Sallyanne Sweeney, Ruth Long, Claire Allan, Shane Dunphy, Catherine Ryan Howard