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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Neil Patel

JULY 12, 2021

Unfortunately, they don’t publish their pricing. The company was founded in 2008 and first sold software through Cisco exclusively. Integrate landing pages, email marketing, social media management, and analytics together to outsmart your competition and reach more contacts.

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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

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 ]. But first up— Tell us a bit more about you and how you got into writing and publishing. Or— Did you always want to self-publish?

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The Creative Penn

DECEMBER 18, 2023

In the intro, We used to do that [Seth Godin ]; Penguin Random House has acquired Hay House [ Publishing Perspectives ]; Business for Authors ; Your Author Business Plan ; OpenAI has announced a partnership with Axel Springer , the first publishing house globally to partner with them to integrate journalism with AI technologies.

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The Creative Penn

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

You still publish on other platforms and third-party stores, but now you’re truly an independent author. It is part of the ethos of publishing wide , which means not being exclusive to any specific retailer, but of course, you can choose different publishing options by book, by series, by author name, and by format.

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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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ProBlogger

DECEMBER 30, 2011

This year, I tried to go outside of the social media echo-chamber and focus on people who are expanding beyond their blogs. As Michael Stelzner said at Blogworld, “You’re not a blogger, you’re a publisher!”. In 2011 he created the Million Dollar Blog Project and launched his case study blog, Expert Enough.

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Express Writers

MARCH 7, 2023

This is the highest amount in the history of the CMO survey (since 2008). Content distribution: Once your content is published, the chances of someone reading or viewing it are somewhat low unless you distribute or promote it. This typically includes paid ads, promoted social media posts, and sponsored content.

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The Creative Penn

JANUARY 26, 2023

There is a real sense of fear and confusion in the media and amongst different kinds of creators. I have a longer blog post coming in late Feb when I publish my first story with an AI-generated cover, which has also been edited by my cover designer. 2017 is when I published my first dark fantasy novel.

Creativity 98

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The Creative Penn

MAY 1, 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. Joanna: So maybe with that, you were kind of virtually traveling every day because that was such a huge project. Kevin: Yes. Kevin: Yes, yeah.

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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

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Taking on too many projects and stretching yourself too thinly. What I ended up doing was to hire a blogger to take on one of the projects that I was running, to kill off the majority of the rest of my blogs and to focus upon two blogs (ProBlogger and DPS). There’s a fine line between: 1. In doing so I saw immediate results.

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ProBlogger

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Taking on too many projects and stretching yourself too thinly. What I ended up doing was to hire a blogger to take on one of the projects that I was running, to kill off the majority of the rest of my blogs and to focus upon two blogs (ProBlogger and DPS). There’s a fine line between: 1. In doing so I saw immediate results.

Projects 41

Projects Social Media Blogger Engagement 41

ProBlogger

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Taking on too many projects and stretching yourself too thinly. What I ended up doing was to hire a blogger to take on one of the projects that I was running, to kill off the majority of the rest of my blogs and to focus upon two blogs (ProBlogger and DPS). There’s a fine line between: 1. In doing so I saw immediate results.

Projects 38

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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. Here's one from 2008!

Creativity 98

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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. Here's one from 2008!

Creativity 98

Creativity Writing Hospitality Writer 98

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. I started self-publishing way, way back now in 2007, 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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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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The Creative Penn

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

What's changed for you in terms of your own NFT projects and what are you doing in this music scene and everything? I've been following the industry, more so on the music side than publishing, but also just always straddling that line and seeing what can I take from the music industry and bring it into publishing and vice versa.

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Smart Blogger

AUGUST 9, 2023

You have readers, email subscribers, and a social media following. 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. Take The Julie/Julia Project , for example.

Blog 62

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ProBlogger

NOVEMBER 30, 2014

With social media platforms becoming the online communication too du jour, and with smartphones and other devices becoming for many the preferred platform, blogs have fallen to the wayside in favour of shorter, punchier messages specifically tailored to hit a reader’s buttons. People Interact on Social Media, Not Your Sites.

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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. You can add into that a whole heap of social media posts as well. Evergreen content is the type of content that you can continue to share and re-share in social media. We did a blog post on this.

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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. You can add into that a whole heap of social media posts as well. Evergreen content is the type of content that you can continue to share and re-share in social media. We did a blog post on this.

Blogger 31

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ProBlogger

AUGUST 18, 2016

Before I start, I want to just mention a little personal project that I’m working on at the moment that I’m looking for a little bit of help on. If you’ve got a couple of moments, you can really help me to shape this little project that’s coming up. We probably publish one or two a week at the most.

Management 29

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Fat Joe

APRIL 28, 2023

Social Media Trends – 2012 Social media is another force that threatened (and still threatens) to kill SEO, according to some. The chief concern of social media trends from industry commentators was that users would remain within the confines of social media platforms, taking demand away from traditional search.

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ProBlogger

AUGUST 18, 2016

Before I start, I want to just mention a little personal project that I’m working on at the moment that I’m looking for a little bit of help on. If you’ve got a couple of moments, you can really help me to shape this little project that’s coming up. We probably publish one or two a week at the most.

Management 20

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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. The web became a much more interactive space and this is the beginnings of social media. We’ve got mainstream media producing amazing amounts of content.

Blog 24

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Smart Blogger

MARCH 29, 2023

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. Instagram: @hespokestyle 16.

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