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My 2023 Creative and Business Goals With Joanna Penn

The Creative Penn

Continue The Creative Penn Podcast. Penn, but the basic concept is about writing from your darker side, and about integrating your shadow into your creative work, rather than trying to bury it or sublimate it. Now it's time to turn it into a book that you might be able to use for your creative process.

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Review Of My 2022 Creative Business Goals

The Creative Penn

Another year ends, and once more, it's time to reflect on our creative goals. Embrace multi-passionate creativity — and optimize for curiosity — as we move into The Creative Future. The Creative Penn website and podcast. Yes, creatively, because I am much happier about advertising the early books in the series now.

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Lessons Learned from 12 Years as an Author Entrepreneur

The Creative Penn

She’s also an award-winning podcaster, creative entrepreneur, and international professional speaker. Disrupting my creative process with generative AI tools Disrupting my publishing and marketing process with Kickstarter and Shopify How much do I rely on Amazon for book sales and total business income? ” Ring any bells?!

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Book Marketing: How To Get Publicity For Your Book With Halima Khatun

The Creative Penn

In the intro, Alliance of Independent Authors Indie Author Income Survey results ; Experience of book to TV show [and previous episode, Johnny B Truant's creative pivots ]; Michael Anderle expands on his AI-assisted goals [ 20Books To 50K Facebook ]; Loop earplugs. Because back in 2008, I did all of this. I was in Australia.

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How To Use Paid Advertising As Part Of Your Book Marketing With Mark Dawson

The Creative Penn

What I can see it doing, and I've already tested it and it works really well, is generating ad copy. But it feels to me like the Wild West when 2007, 2008, the early days of digital in general, which was just brilliant. It was just Facebook Ads for Authors when we started. Joanna: It is. It's not just Facebook, is it?

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The Marketing Mind Shift And The Power Of Ad Stacking With Ricci Wolman

The Creative Penn

How can authors reframe marketing to be more of a positive choice, something even creative and worth investing in? I feel like this is something that authors struggle with, because on the one hand, we feel like we're artists and creatives, so we don't want to think that our book is the same as any other product.

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The Tsunami Of Crap, Misinformation, And Responsible Use Of AI With Tim Boucher

The Creative Penn

After many years of people saying, “AI can never be creative, AI could never write fiction (i.e. How can we use the tools to achieve our creative purpose in an ethical manner, and understand that we need to curate, edit, and take responsibility for any usage? Some only use AI tools for generating sales descriptions or ad copy.

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