The Creative Penn

DECEMBER 30, 2022

I launched the book direct on my Shopify store, CreativePennBooks.com and sold it exclusively direct for a month before publishing it wide. I also wrote and published two short stories. I've been selling direct since 2008 when I started online, but it's always been an afterthought for book sales. Sudowrite Tutorial here ].

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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. Steve: Thank you very much. I started off as an F-16.

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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. If she lands a project, it’s typically in the $50,000-$80,000 range. Take The Julie/Julia Project , for example.

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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

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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The Creative Penn

MAY 5, 2023

I have covered the topic as it relates to authors regularly since then and even written a short book on the impact of AI on authors and publishing. I write books and I record and publish audio, although I also do some professional speaking and teaching as well. There is much more at stake.

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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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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. I got it selling there, but of course, I had a thousand copies offset run, which was fairly expensive because I didn't know what I was doing.

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The Creative Penn

JANUARY 26, 2023

There’s also another class action lawsuit where Microsoft, GitHub, and OpenAI are being sued around GitHub Co-pilot being “trained on public repositories of code scraped from the web, many of which are published with licenses that require anyone reusing the code to credit its creators. 2017 is when I published my first dark fantasy novel.

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The Creative Penn

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

From the headlines this week, “Sci-fi publisher Clarkesworld halts pitches amid deluge of AI-generated stories.” [ The Guardian ] and “Hundreds of AI-written books flood Amazon.” [ The Independent ]. Here are the highlights and the full transcript is below. But as ever, the headlines are clickbait and we need to have a more nuanced approach.

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ProBlogger

APRIL 19, 2017

His latest project, Examine.Com, garners around 70,000 visitors a day and is a seven-figure business. Behind The Book Campaign: How to Sell 30,000 Copies in Six Weeks. He created Bushwalking Blog in 2008 to provide detailed reports of his hikes. Normally, such figures would put me off recommending him. Find out SujanPatel.com.

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Income Diary

APRIL 2, 2024

Brin is working on other, more personal projects that reach beyond Google.Brin and Page are trying to help solve the world’s energy and climate problems at Google’s philanthropic arm, Google.org, which invests in the alternative energy industry to find wider sources of renewable energy. 5 Sergey Brin: Founder of Google is worth $136.6

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ProBlogger

JULY 28, 2016

Over the last thirteen years, I tried to work out the other day how many pieces of content I’ve published on my blogs. This is content, as Tim says, it’s going to be as valuable in a couple of years time, perhaps be even more valuable and getting more traffic in a couple of year’s time than perhaps it is on the day that he publishes it.

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ProBlogger

JULY 28, 2016

Over the last thirteen years, I tried to work out the other day how many pieces of content I’ve published on my blogs. This is content, as Tim says, it’s going to be as valuable in a couple of years time, perhaps be even more valuable and getting more traffic in a couple of year’s time than perhaps it is on the day that he publishes it.

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Content Marketing Institute

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Yet some brands are working with top comics creators and publishers such as Marvel Comics. Darren Sanchez, editor and project manager for Marvel Custom Solutions, agrees. You don’t want to leave a project like this to a person in the art department who has never produced a comic,” Buddy says. The Google Chrome Comic (2008).

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Men With Pens

DECEMBER 8, 2009

The Guardian explains their stategy very well: [link] O’Reilly TOC also provided in 2008 (this how long this discussion has been going) some insight… How Do Publishers and Authors Get Paid in a “Free&# World? Or work on passive income projects. to end free content on the paper’s Website.

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ProBlogger

JUNE 26, 2019

We’ve also got Kelly Exeter, who’s brilliant on writing, editing, also design, self-publishing. When I first published it, I didn’t look like this. I published my first post and then, my next feeling was, “How am I going to get people to read the post?” Nicole is there as well.

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