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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Publishing Trends

JANUARY 16, 2024

She first joined S&S in 2008 after three years as publisher of Rodale Books. Kaitilin Harri has been named senior director of publishing at William Morrow. Jim Dassise, the western region business manager for Arcadia Publishing has left. Cindy Yen has joined as as online and digital sales coordinator.

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The Creative Penn

JANUARY 26, 2023

What are some of the tools and why are creative direction, voice, and taste, so important? In the first 28 mins of the podcast, I give an extended introduction about the various legal cases around AI and copyright , my thoughts on the best way to approach it for your creative work, and how to use AI tools ethically and responsibly.

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The Creative Penn

APRIL 1, 2024

She’s also an award-winning podcaster, creative entrepreneur, and international professional speaker. You’ll use different elements for each launch, as well as for long-term sales. Traditional versus indie publishing Your marketing options vary based on how you publish and how much control you have over the book.

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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.

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The Creative Penn

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

She’s also an award-winning podcaster, creative entrepreneur, and international professional speaker. What about sales tax / VAT? Are direct sales for you? You’re in control of the site and your sales pages, with no other ads on your page to distract potential readers. What are the costs? How do I get paid? Imagine this….

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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. She’s also an award-winning podcaster, creative entrepreneur, and international professional speaker. It will emerge over time.

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The Creative Penn

AUGUST 21, 2023

How do you ensure secure cash flow and profits, instead of focusing on short-term spike sales? 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. This is great.

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Smart Blogger

MARCH 29, 2023

There are several creative ways to monetize a blog. Lifestyle influencers (bloggers with large, engaged audiences) collaborate with brands through sponsor networks (like Activate or Social Fabric ) and receive compensation for writing and publishing sponsored posts that review and recommend products to their readers. Sister stuff!

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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

DECEMBER 25, 2022

She’s also an award-winning podcaster, creative entrepreneur, and international professional speaker. She's also the founder of the Alliance of Independent Authors, a professional speaker and creative coach. You mentioned it before, that your creative non-fiction books, you put years into these. Transcript of the discussion.

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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. You can also listen to a recent episode with Thomas on Novel Marketing and Christian Publishing on The Creative Penn Podcast.

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The Creative Penn

MAY 5, 2023

How can we use AI tools in our creative and business processes while still keeping our humanity at the core of our books? She’s also an award-winning podcaster, creative entrepreneur, and international professional speaker. What is the AI-Assisted Artisan Author? She has sold almost a million books across 169 countries and 5 languages.

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The Creative Penn

JANUARY 28, 2023

We have all our lines and of course I do share, I share a lot and have done since I was online in 2008. And those two people, I was like, I really hope they don't say I can't publish it because it's already done. Jo: And yes, because I felt like it's my story, and if they don't want me to publish it, I'm going to have to argue that.

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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. Show Notes Harnessing the popularity of Dungeons and Dragons on Kickstarter Offering physical objects to accompany your book campaign Why are direct sales and Kickstarter taking off now?

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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. She’s also an award-winning podcaster, creative entrepreneur, and international professional speaker. Was it worth it? How did I do fulfillment?

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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

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

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 20, 2022

How can we shift our mindset to thinking about a long-term creative career? This podcast is sponsored by Kobo Writing Life , which helps authors self-publish and reach readers in global markets through the Kobo eco-system. Starting an email list early, I started mine in 2008. I'm ceasing all activity, just as a forcing function.

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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

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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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 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

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

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. You've been publishing and self-publishing a long time. Patricia: Giving up?!

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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

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. LA Witt talks about her strategies. Transcript of Interview with L.A. Joanna: Wow.

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Content Marketing Institute

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

Among the benefits – shorter sales cycle (no. How does marketing without talking about or promoting our product/service help us create leads and sales? Jason Schemmel , Harper Collins Christian Publishing. That calculus varies based on your product sale point, obviously, but the base principle is still the same.

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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. You started before me, but when I started self-publishing there was also no Kindle. And they had the identical sales. No, I lie, I wasn't.

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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. So it's weird. Mark: Definitely.

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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. There’s more to success than book sales, however, and being “a successful author” is about defining what that means for you.

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Income Diary

APRIL 2, 2024

Amazon.com is currently the world’s largest Internet sales company on the World Wide Web and earns $386 Billion a year. Dommermuth trained as a banker, before moving into computer sales in Montabaur, Germany. In October 2017, Magic Leap announced the partnership with online comic book publisher Madefire.

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ProBlogger

APRIL 19, 2017

Here are a few of my favourites: How Creatives Should Negotiate via Tim Ferris. Why The Loooooong Sales Letter Works And Other Surprising Sales Hacks via Mixergy. He created Bushwalking Blog in 2008 to provide detailed reports of his hikes. His blog posts are brilliant but I also love it when he is interviewed.

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ProBlogger

AUGUST 30, 2015

On August 14 and 15, more than 700 bloggers and online creatives descended upon the RACV Royal Pines on Australia’s Gold Coast for two days of learning and networking at the ProBlogger Training Event. I wrote How Batch Processing Made Me 10 Times More Productive in 2008. This can increase sales. credit: Mick Russell.

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ProBlogger

NOVEMBER 30, 2014

With the advent of the kindle and readers coming to expect ebooks for $2.99, revenue from ebook sales on blogs have dwindled. Other writers are using their blog as a platform to launch creative projects that might not necessarily have much to do with the topic of their site. And it’s not just advertising.

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