Mark Stay's Creative Differences
A monthly podcast where I talk to writer friends about those little things that make a big difference to their craft and careers in the hope that we can give readers some insight to the creative process, and writers and creative folk practical advice that they can actually use!
The podcast is a recording of a monthly livestream.
Podcasting since 2024 • 14 episodes
Mark Stay's Creative Differences
Latest Episodes
Lucy Strange: How Scary is too Scary? | Mark Stay's Creative Differences Episode 14
Lucy Strange is an award-winning children’s author whose books feel like classic children’s literature, but are written in a style that is engaging and accessible for today’s younger readers. Most recently she’s collaborated with artist Pam Smy...
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Episode 14
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GD Wright: A Weird Way of Getting Published. | Mark Stay's Creative Differences Episode 13
GD Wright is the author of the bestselling AFTER THE STORM and INTO THE FIRE, and he’s genuinely one of the nicest guys in the business with an extraordinary tale to tell: he was a copper, then due to health issues had to retire aged 30, and if...
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Episode 13
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Rowan Coleman: WHAT WOULD CHARLOTTE BRONTË DO? | Mark Stay's Creative Differences Episode 12
Bestselling and award-winning author Rowan Coleman joined me to discuss her new book Never Tear Us Apart, revealing how a family photo inspired her to research in Malta, why she wrote her next book, The Good Boy, under a pen name, then there wa...
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Episode 12
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Nicola Whyte: THE PERCOLATION | Mark Stay's Creative Differences Episode 11
I had a wonderful time chatting to Nicola Whyte the debut writer of 10 Marchfield Square about how she was inspired by the nooks of London and Douglas Adams's whodunnits. We also discuss planning the middle of a novel, "soft boiled crime", desi...
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Episode 11
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Sarah Pinborough: THE LIES WE TELL | Mark Stay's Creative Differences Episode 10
I chat with Sarah Pinborough, the bestselling and award-winning author of Behind Her Eyes about her new thriller We Live Here Now, spooky houses, her method of 'triple writing', going on tour and the lies we tell each other...LINKS
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Episode 10
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