The Creative Penn

JUNE 26, 2023

Show Notes Changes in publishing and marketing for nonfiction authors over time and what still works How to stand out and build your community Content marketing and long-term marketing strategies Deciding what nonfiction book to write—should you stay in your lane? I sent proposals to three publishers, and Wiley gave me a book deal.

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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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The Subversive Copy Editor

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

It’s a longstanding convention in publishing that all titles of the same kind of work (book, magazine, song, etc.) Modern publishers of the classics must decide whether to follow the writer’s original manuscript (if it exists), reproduce an early-edition styling, or impose modern styles. The publisher doesn’t use Chicago style.

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Jane Friedman

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Dark and paranormal romance author Kitty Thomas discusses negative attitudes toward the romance genre (including her own before she came to love it), whether writing to a formula is as easy as all that, why she thinks sex scenes are the most difficult thing to write, the heartbreaking nature of publishing, and more. What can you do?

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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

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

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

Plus, Build for Tomorrow: An Action Plan for Embracing Change, Adapting Fast, and Future-Proofing your Career by Jason Feifer; The future of publishing is now on the Dialogue Doctor podcast; Content vs connection [Jay Acunzo on Twitter ]; Why I'm focusing on being an AI-assisted artisan author; Death of an Author, from Pushkin Press.

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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. If you find it for sale elsewhere, then it is a secondhand copy. But the publishing landscape has changed. Limited to 10.

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The Creative Penn

AUGUST 7, 2023

How can you leverage the tools available for authors to sell more copies? Ricci has been in the self-publishing space for nearly a decade. Ricci has been in the self-publishing space for nearly a decade. This is all the way back in 2009/10 ish, when self-publishing was fairly new. So welcome back to the show, Ricci.

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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

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!), What specifically got me into publishing, was my wife decided to write some books, some nonfiction books about styling. So welcome to the show, Joe.

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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

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

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. Honoree: Hi, I'm so happy to be here. Joanna: I'm so excited to talk to you again.

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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 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

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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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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ProBlogger

MARCH 2, 2022

The key to this is not to do this analysis to simply copy it – but to come away inspired to apply some of the principles that others are using in your own writing. This article was first published on March 16, 2008 and updated March 3, 2022. Further Reading.

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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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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. When she makes contact with an executive, or someone connects with her, she sends them a free copy of her book. So let’s go for it!

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The Creative Penn

MAY 6, 2024

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. I've been doing this a long time now, since 2008, and I feel like I have got stuck in my processes for an amount of time. Do what works for you.

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Grammar Underground

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Between 1950 and 2008, “goodness sake” doubled in popularity in books published in the United States., Therefore, you might figure, there’s no use worrying about whether they’re written with an apostrophe, as in “goodness’ sake,” with an apostrophe plus an S, as in “goodness’s sake,” or with neither, as in “goodness sake.”.

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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. I published 2012 was my first book. Transcript of Interview with Mark Dawson.

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ProBlogger

MARCH 2, 2022

The key to this is not to do this analysis to simply copy it – but to come away inspired to apply some of the principles that others are using in your own writing. This article was first published on March 16, 2008 and updated March 3, 2022. Further Reading.

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Content Marketing Institute

MAY 31, 2018

Editor’s note: The following is adapted from the author’s book, Digital & Marketing Asset Management: The Real Story of DAM Technology & Practice , published by Rosenfeld Media and copyright by Real Story Group. In most cases, you need to add textual information such as copy, descriptions, and product data as well.

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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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ProBlogger

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Mark started blogging in 2008 in the dating space, before pivoting to personal development in 2011. MM: Before I started my dating advice blog back in 2008, I had been arguing about politics and culture and music and technology on internet forums for years. How much influence do they have over what does and doesn’t get published.

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ProBlogger

MARCH 12, 2012

In May of 2008 – ProBlogger the Book (yep, the real hard cover book) was released. it was a collaboration between myself and co-author Chris Garrett – published with Wiley Publishing. email our publisher – Wiley – with proof of purchase. There was also an added chapter on social media.

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ProBlogger

MARCH 20, 2017

It helps you see at a glance your traffic details and the relationship between number of published posts and traffic. This can prove very useful when you need the extra motivation to start writing you next post.The above table is a copy from my notes. STEP 3: Create a publishing schedule and stick to it. It’s as simple as that.

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ProBlogger

APRIL 19, 2017

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. I featured Alexis as one of the 20 Bloggers to Watch in 2012 describing her as a “publishing powerhouse.” Lately, his work has focused on what we can learn from philosophy.

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Income Diary

APRIL 2, 2024

In October 2017, Magic Leap announced the partnership with online comic book publisher Madefire. He served as CEO of Twitter from 2008 to 2010, during which time the platform exploded in popularity. They invested in Facebook in 2008, after selling StudiVZ to the Holtzbrinck Group.

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ProBlogger

AUGUST 21, 2012

The Wall Street Journal reports that in 2008 blogger Shellee Hale was sued for remarks she made in forums relating to a software company. In this modern day and age, we’re no long just bloggers—we’re also publishers. Has what we’ve published infringed someone’s trademark? How can it affect you? What can you do about 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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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

AUGUST 30, 2015

I wrote How Batch Processing Made Me 10 Times More Productive in 2008. Commit to critically assessing your blog posts before you press publish. Create keyboard shortcuts so you don’t have to copy and paste all your hashtags from notepad. Action: write down three tasks you can batch process. Know your best hours to work.

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ProBlogger

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

In 2008, Europe’s soccer elite scored around $800 million from merchandizing. As promotional gimmicks go, it’s oddly appropriate, if a little sick,” said the entertainment publisher in a post discussing promotional products they’d received. The UK-based agency provides tone of voice and web copy services to a global roster of clients.

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