I love talking to authors, and finding out about their inspiration and process – myself and my literary agent, 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 – you can see more on the Writing.ie Facebook Page: Joanne Harris, Kit de Waal, Adele Parks, Andrew Miller and many more. Simon covers literary fiction, and I chat to the crime writers, some of whom you’ll find below. Below too, find the interviews from 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 here – 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