The Creative Penn

DECEMBER 31, 2022

I am more excited than ever this year about the books I want to write and publish. but now I'm ready to create at full throttle in 2023 , aided by the incredible AI-powered tools emerging for writers. If your goals are simpler — like finishing your book, or publishing for the first time, or selling 1000 copies, then fantastic!

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The Creative Penn

JUNE 26, 2023

Stephanie Chandler is the author of multiple nonfiction books, a professional speaker, and CEO of the Nonfiction Authors Association and Writers Conference. It turned out I was a terrible fiction writer , I just did not have the imagination. I sent proposals to three publishers, and Wiley gave me a book deal.

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The Creative Penn

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

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. Over time, you build up traffic to your store, and that effort compounds, so you start to make sales every day on a site you control. What are the costs?

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The Creative Penn

JANUARY 28, 2023

Jeremy also has interviews with travel writers like Pico Iyer, Colin Thubron, and many more on his show, or check out his website TravelWritingWorld.com Jeremy has also been on this podcast talking about the different sub-genres of travel writing, tackling imposter syndrome , and more. And I only gave it to my mum when it was finished.

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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 finally finished and published How to Write a Novel in July 2022 after starting with an initial draft in 2016. I follow the urging of the Muse.

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The Creative Penn

DECEMBER 30, 2022

I was worried that I didn't have anything to add to the millions of other books on writing craft, but it turned out to be useful for some people, especially those who write out of order and are discovery writers. I also wrote and published two short stories. Click here to buy it direct from me. I offered it, but I didn't focus on it.

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Express Writers

MARCH 7, 2023

The benefits of content marketing are clear: it can help any organization boost brand exposure, increase sales, and improve customer loyalty. This is the highest amount in the history of the CMO survey (since 2008). Labor costs: You need to pay professionals to create, publish, and distribute your content.

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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.

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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!), Joe Solari discusses key aspects of your author business.

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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

We are only at the beginning of the opportunities of AI for wider society as well as for creativity and art, and it’s important that authors, writers, and other creatives be involved in order to shape the future as we want it to be. The development of photography might be the closest comparison to where writers are now. To do the work.

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The Creative Penn

DECEMBER 25, 2022

Joanna Penn: Hello everyone, and welcome to the Alliance of Independent Authors Advanced Self-Publishing Salon with me, Joanna Penn, and Orna Ross. I got much more serious about poetry publishing, which was much more fun and much better integrated with the busy schedule that I had in those years. Transcript of the discussion.

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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 Creative Penn

OCTOBER 8, 2023

So first up— Tell us a bit more about you and how you got into writing and publishing. LA: I mean, I'm kind of the cliche writer who's been writing since I could hold a pen up right. That was 2008, and it just never stopped. I mean — I call myself a binge writer. Transcript of Interview with L.A. Witt Joanna: L.A.

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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

MARCH 27, 2023

In the intro, I mention the 6 Figure Author Podcast , The Writers Well Podcast , and Reid Hoffman's new Possible podcast. 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. How did I do fulfillment?

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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

JUNE 29, 2023

What functionality does Sudowrite have that will be useful to different types of writers? 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. Amit Gupta gives his tips in this interview.

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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

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Tell us a bit about you and how you got into writing and publishing. And that's really how I got started, I made every mistake that we caution against in our books for writers. Honoree: Well, I'm going to just take a little segue and say it has to be professionally published. Honoree: Hi, I'm so happy to be here.

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The Creative Penn

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

You can support the show at www.patreon.com/thecreativepenn Tim Boucher is a hyperrealist AI artist and writer specializing in questionable alternative realities. Yes, there will be scammers, spammers, pirates, get-rich-quick schemes and plagiarisers using these tools to mass produce crap and publish it quickly.

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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

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. None, none whatsoever.

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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. Are you the artist as well as the writer?

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The Creative Penn

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

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. And I often stress there are multiple streams of income that business and entrepreneurial writers have. Dorie: Exactly.

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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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ProBlogger

APRIL 19, 2017

Ryan Holiday is a writer and media strategist. Why The Loooooong Sales Letter Works And Other Surprising Sales Hacks via Mixergy. He is a prolific writer and content curator and shares so many useful resources via his Twitter account. He created Bushwalking Blog in 2008 to provide detailed reports of his hikes.

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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. So AI is not going away.

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ProBlogger

NOVEMBER 30, 2014

This is a guest contribution from author and freelance writer Steff Green. Jason Kottke , writer of one of the longest-running blogs on the web, states that the blog’s demise came about because the fundamental purpose of blogging was no being fulfilled with other media. Image via Flickr user Spondle.

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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. In my case, I was blogging about fitness since 2008 so I knew the industry very well and I believe this is one of the reasons that the blog’s traffic increased so quickly. Step 1: Get to know your niche.

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ProBlogger

DECEMBER 30, 2011

As Michael Stelzner said at Blogworld, “You’re not a blogger, you’re a publisher!”. Kristi Hines is a freelance writer, online marketing consultant, and social media enthusiast that blogs at Kikolani. Alexis Grant is a publishing powerhouse. These are 20 people who stood out to me this year. Kristi Hines.

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ProBlogger

AUGUST 23, 2012

They’re not long or hard posts, but I know from experience that clothes sell out, particularly if they’re on sale, so they do have to be timely. True to personality, I was often editing those right before I published them—I even wound up blogging from the post-partum ward in the hospital, hilariously, about work/life balance.

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ProBlogger

APRIL 23, 2013

10 Years and $420,000 later… I’d love to be able to calculate exactly how much I’ve earned from Amazon in that time but their current reporting system only goes back as far as 2008. Easy integration – Amazon provides some good tools and widgets to help you integrate the sales channel into your website.

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Content Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 19, 2017

No matter how large or small your business is, or how experienced you are in content marketing, these recently published books can help you take your content marketing to the next level. But,” John writes, “what if you’re not a great writer? Publishing and distributing. Regardless, they always want to be enriched.

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ProBlogger

AUGUST 18, 2016

Use filters on gmail – I have hundreds of filters on gmail – bulk for emails on products sales – keep records to serve customers – quick gmail search of transactions to see if customer purchases a product or not – emails you want to keep, but don’t want to read. We probably publish one or two a week at the most.

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ProBlogger

AUGUST 18, 2016

Use filters on gmail – I have hundreds of filters on gmail – bulk for emails on products sales – keep records to serve customers – quick gmail search of transactions to see if customer purchases a product or not – emails you want to keep, but don’t want to read. We probably publish one or two a week at the most.

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ProBlogger

JUNE 26, 2019

Kelly Exeter (writer and editor) . 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 look around this room and I know I’m not the best writer in this room. I’m not the best writer out there.

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