The Creative Penn

MARCH 27, 2023

With its detailed reports on how to improve your writing and integration with Scrivener, ProWritingAid will help you improve your book before you send it to an editor, agent or publisher. She’s also an award-winning podcaster, creative entrepreneur, and international professional speaker. But the publishing landscape has changed.

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The Creative Penn

JANUARY 29, 2024

This podcast is sponsored by Kobo Writing Life , which helps authors self-publish and reach readers in global markets through the Kobo eco-system. But before we get into that− Tell us a bit more about you, your writing and publishing background, and how the hell you manage your time! Joanna: So Starcane Press is your publishing house?

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Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

in September 2008, the Google maps mobile app was launched on Android. Paid marketing avenues: Local search ads and Google Maps Ads. Google has previously experimented with ads inside maps and pushed AdWords location extensions. But, at the Performance Summit , Google released new forms of local search ads.

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ProBlogger

MARCH 2, 2022

I said earlier in the series that I’m assuming ‘great content’ is being added to the hypothetical new blog that we’re promoting. This article was first published on March 16, 2008 and updated March 3, 2022. The post How to Grow Your Blog with Viral Content appeared first on ProBlogger.

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The Creative Penn

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

With its detailed reports on how to improve your writing, and integration with Scrivener, ProWritingAid will help you improve your book before you send it to an editor, agent or publisher. You started before me, but when I started self-publishing there was also no Kindle. Morgana: I was five years old at the time. No, I lie, I wasn't.

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The Creative Penn

JANUARY 22, 2023

I want to come back on the waiting to win the lottery thing because I feel that that actually has a parallel in publishing, in that people are like, oh, well, this one book, if I just get the agent, if I just get the book deal, if I just get the film deal, or the TV deal, I will make a million , and I can retire. But it's okay with me.

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The Creative Penn

APRIL 24, 2023

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. So I didn't know anything about self-publishing. And it did great.

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ProBlogger

MARCH 2, 2022

I said earlier in the series that I’m assuming ‘great content’ is being added to the hypothetical new blog that we’re promoting. This article was first published on March 16, 2008 and updated March 3, 2022. The post How to Grow Your Blog with Viral Content appeared first on ProBlogger.

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The Creative Penn

AUGUST 14, 2023

In the intro, investment firm KKR will buy Simon & Schuster [ Publishing Perspectives ]; Subscriber Surge Giveaways [ Written Word Media ]; Key Book Publishing Paths [ Jane Friedman ]. This podcast is sponsored by Kobo Writing Life , which helps authors self-publish and reach readers in global markets through the Kobo eco-system.

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The Creative Penn

DECEMBER 19, 2022

What has changed in the publishing industry over the last few years? This podcast is sponsored by Kobo Writing Life , which helps authors self-publish and reach readers in global markets through the Kobo eco-system. She's also an award-winning publishing commentator, writer, editor, professional speaker and teacher.

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The Creative Penn

AUGUST 7, 2023

In the intro, The Hotsheet useful newsletter; Book publishing is broken ; In the US, the Federal Trade Commission is about to launch the antitrust lawsuit against Amazon [ Politico ] and a thought experiment; The Authors Guild trains authors on AI tools , and so does the IPG , and so does Publishers Weekly. Ricci: Thanks, Joanna.

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The Creative Penn

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

She’s also an award-winning podcaster, creative entrepreneur, and international professional speaker. You’re in control of the site and your sales pages, with no other ads on your page to distract potential readers. You still publish on other platforms and third-party stores, but now you’re truly an independent author.

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The Creative Penn

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

In this wide-ranging interview on the Prickly Pens Podcast, Joanna Penn talks about changing careers from IT to becoming an independent author, the early days of self-publishing and how things have changed, inspiration for fiction, generosity as the basis for a business, and how the future might look for writers. Show Notes. Welcome, Joanna.

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The Creative Penn

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

In this wide-ranging interview on the Prickly Pens Podcast, Joanna Penn talks about changing careers from IT to becoming an independent author, the early days of self-publishing and how things have changed, inspiration for fiction, generosity as the basis for a business, and how the future might look for writers. Show Notes. Welcome, Joanna.

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The Creative Penn

JUNE 26, 2023

My books related to this interview: Career Change , How to Write Non-Fiction , Your Author Business Plan , Public Speaking for Authors, Creatives, and Other Introverts. So a year after the self-published business startup guide came out, I had the idea for From Entrepreneur to Infopreneur. So I was beyond thrilled.

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The Creative Penn

OCTOBER 20, 2023

If you sell direct, you can produce higher quality books and products, make more money per sale, get paid faster, and reach readers directly, but there are challenges to publish and market this way. Thomas Umstaddt Jr interviews Joanna Penn on the Novel Marketing Podcast covering tips for publishing, selling, and marketing direct to readers.

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The Creative Penn

AUGUST 21, 2023

In the intro, Kobo Plus expands to audiobooks in Australia & New Zealand; Thoughts on the changing publishing environment based on Thrillerfest Audios (well worth buying!), So I've got a creative background. So I have this strange mix of creative and analytical , and I've been entrepreneurial my whole life. This is great.

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The Creative Penn

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Write and publish what you want, get paid every day for your books, and control your customer data and relationships. With its detailed reports on how to improve your writing and integration with Scrivener, ProWritingAid will help you improve your book before you send it to an editor, agent or publisher.

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ProBlogger

DECEMBER 30, 2011

As Michael Stelzner said at Blogworld, “You’re not a blogger, you’re a publisher!”. Alexis Grant is a publishing powerhouse. I think we will learn a lot from her experiments in digital publishing, especially during the latter part of 2012. He was one of the first in my community to experiment with Kindle publishing.

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The Creative Penn

JUNE 9, 2024

How can you use click testing on Meta to help refine your creative and book marketing ideas? In the intro, The Hotsheet with Jane Friedman ; 20 ways you should be using AI in publishing [ PerfectBound ]; Artificial Intelligence? Steve Pieper explains in this interview. So I think that's the first part of it. Joanna: Yes, exactly.

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The Creative Penn

MAY 6, 2024

How can you use automation and tools to help you streamline your creative and business processes so you can get back to the writing? Join my Community at Patreon.com/thecreativepenn Chelle Honiker is the co-founder and publisher of Indie Author Magazine , Indie Author Training, Indie Author Tools, and Direct2Readers.com.

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The Creative Penn

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

After a ton of trial and error, I published the first four novels in my myth and magic urban fantasy series this year, as well as the first five guides for writers in my Write Better Fiction series, I also qualified as a Fictionary Certified story coach too and that's pretty much me. It is not creative at all. So just keep going.

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The Creative Penn

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

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? Here are the highlights and the full transcript is below.

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The Creative Penn

JANUARY 6, 2023

In the intro, publishing trends for 2023 [ Written Word Media ]; Apple AI narration ; ChatGPT into Bing [ The Verge ]; Comments on Audible [ Brandon Sanderson , Audiblegate ]; TikTok ban and problems [ Reuters , Rolling Stone ]; my Pilgrimage Kickstarter. Different ways to monetize your brand to make ads profitable. So it's weird.

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The Creative Penn

JUNE 29, 2023

I use and recommend Sudowrite as part of my creative process. You can try Sudowrite through my affiliate link: www.TheCreativePenn.com/sudowrite Amit Gupta is a science fiction writer, entrepreneur, and founder of Sudowrite, an AI-powered creative writing tool. It's almost like a creativity booster. Amit: Thanks, Joanna.

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The Creative Penn

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

How can you embrace book marketing as a creative part of your author business? Tell us a bit about you and how you got into writing and publishing. And then I started learning the lessons of how to professionally publish a book, and to publish a book well, and market a book well , and sell books and market with my book.

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The Creative Penn

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Ada-Ari talks about how she writes, publishes and markets her children's books based on African folk tales and African languages in the USA. This podcast is sponsored by Kobo Writing Life , which helps authors self-publish and reach readers in global markets through the Kobo eco-system. How can you market books for children?

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The Creative Penn

JANUARY 30, 2023

With its detailed reports on how to improve your writing and integration with Scrivener, ProWritingAid will help you improve your book before you send it to an editor, agent or publisher. So first up — Tell us a bit more about you and how you got into writing and publishing. Does it help you creatively? Joanna: That's great.

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The Creative Penn

MAY 1, 2023

How can we build a creative life based on following our curiosity? With its detailed reports on how to improve your writing and integration with Scrivener, ProWritingAid will help you improve your book before you send it to an editor, agent or publisher. Kevin Kelly shares some Excellent Advice for Living.

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The Creative Penn

OCTOBER 23, 2023

In the intro, Self-publishing's ongoing evolution [ Publishers Weekly ]; Audiobooks on Spotify and how my listening behavior is changing [ FindawayVoices ]; Author ecosystems , and an overview on the Kickstart your book sales podcast. First of all, on that whole lifetime deal companies, all of that, this is the same with publishers.

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Income Diary

APRIL 2, 2024

The company controls China’s biggest mobile instant messaging service and its subsidiaries provide media, entertainment, the internet and mobile phone value-added services. In October 2017, Magic Leap announced the partnership with online comic book publisher Madefire. one of the largest Internet companies in China. com (NetEase).

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The Creative Penn

OCTOBER 8, 2023

How can you establish a creative routine that enables you to write the books you want to write without burning out? So first up— Tell us a bit more about you and how you got into writing and publishing. That was 2008, and it just never stopped. So I tend to have a solid outline, but then I just keep adding to it as I go.

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Smart Blogger

AUGUST 9, 2023

But, you have everything you need to become one of those seemingly lucky people who do get picked, who do decide to self-publish, who do finally get it done and achieve their dream of being an author. In 2008, Ries started a blog, and one of his first posts was entitled The Lean Startup. So let’s go for it!

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The Creative Penn

MARCH 3, 2024

With its detailed reports on how to improve your writing and integration with Scrivener, ProWritingAid will help you improve your book before you send it to an editor, agent or publisher. It was about 2009 that we launched Bookvault, and that was to serve our traditional publishers that we'd been working with, mainly in the academic sector.

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ProBlogger

NOVEMBER 30, 2014

Readers have started to get smart to the methods of blog advertising – they might avoid affiliate links, scoff at “sponsored content” and glance over your sidebar ads without a single click. I’ve been blogging since 2008, and I’ve seen many different trends rise and fall.

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ProBlogger

JANUARY 13, 2013

In September 2012, I launched my latest online venture, The Grand Life , where I interview creative professionals and entrepreneurs, and quickly realized that I had a lot to learn about building a successful interview site. DSG: I started in 2008. So 2008 and 2009, it was really for local entrepreneurs in St.

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ProBlogger

DECEMBER 26, 2016

You can find today’s shownotes, where I will link to some further reading on this topic that we’ve published on ProBlogger and some reading that I found in researching today’s podcast at ProBlogger.com/podcast/173. I’m taking these from an article that we actually published on ProBlogger earlier this year, which was written by Ali Luke.

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