{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/689b7bcb290bdec8f9696fb1/6aeb89c97be9b695a64c1172?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Jim Ross | The Magic Number 10. Selling 10 Million Books and 10 years to write a Debut","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/689b7bcb290bdec8f9696fb1/1793818716806-cb7b30cb-f7a2-4fc3-ab2d-675c24f1df2c.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p>Barrister <a href=\"https://www.jimrossauthor.co.uk\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Jim Ross</a> joins Nadine Matheson for her 250th episode to discuss why lawyers make natural crime writers, the real dangers of AI in the courtroom, and the remarkable story of building his wife LJ Ross&#39;s self-publishing career from a standing start to 10 million copies. He also shares his own 10-year journey to finishing his debut legal thriller <em><a href=\"https://uk.bookshop.org/a/14776/9781398557970\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Hawk&#39;s Justice</a></em><a href=\"https://uk.bookshop.org/a/14776/9781398557970\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"> </a>and what happened when he missed his first-ever deadline.</p><p><br></p><p>Jim Ross is a practising barrister based in Newcastle. After meeting his wife Louise (LJ Ross) at law school, he helped build her self-publishing career, managing the commercial and editorial side while she wrote the bestselling DCI Ryan series, which has sold over 10 million copies on Amazon KDP and made LJ Ross the most-read adult author in the UK on Kindle. In 2025, Penguin&#39;s Cornerstone imprint acquired the paperback rights to the series and a new prequel series. Jim&#39;s own debut legal thriller, <em>Hawk&#39;s Justice </em>which is out now.</p><p><br></p><p><a href=\"https://uk.bookshop.org/a/14776/9781398557970\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Buy Hawk&#39;s Justice </a></p>","author_name":"Nadine Matheson"}