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My 2023 Creative and Business Goals With Joanna Penn

The Creative Penn

I am more excited than ever this year about the books I want to write and publish. If your goals are simpler — like finishing your book, or publishing for the first time, or selling 1000 copies, then fantastic! Penn — Write and publish the ‘catacomb' book, ARKANE #13, and some short stories — and maybe other fiction.

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Lessons Learned from 12 Years as an Author Entrepreneur

The Creative Penn

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 was so scared of publishing it and when I was about to hit Launch on the Kickstarter back in February, my heart was hammering.

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GPT-3.5: The Robots Are Here to Take Over Your Writing, or Are They? Exploring Copywriting AI

Content Hacker

He has since sold CMI in June of 2016 to UBM, a multi-billion dollar events and media company based in London. Now, I wouldn’t just blindly publish on these topics. “With all the chatter around AI over the last few days, about 6 months ago I started playing with AI in my ad copy. Topic Generation.

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Review Of My 2022 Creative Business Goals

The Creative Penn

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 published 67 episodes of The Creative Penn podcast in 2022, and I'm so pleased that the show still resonates after more than 13 years.

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Writing Fiction With Sudowrite With Leanne Leeds

The Creative Penn

But first up— Tell us a bit more about you and how you got into writing and publishing. In 2016, I kind of had this, I'm, you know, 45, I'm middle-aged, what do I do with my life now? And indie publishing came up on my radar, and I gave it a shot and was kind of okay at it. So welcome, Leanne. Joanna: I'm excited to talk to you.

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How Generative AI Search Will Impact Book Discoverability In The Next Decade

The Creative Penn

What can authors and publishers do to ensure their books are still found in the new form of generative AI search? In terms of my personal experience, I’ve been interested in AI for creatives since AlphaGo beat Lee Sodol at the ancient Chinese game of Go in 2016, and I’ve been sharing interviews and resources here ever since.

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20 Secrets to Boost Your Facebook Organic Reach

Neil Patel

There are two major reasons Facebook organic reach continues to drop: More content: More content is being published than there is news feed space for it to be shown. AdExpresso analyzed over 100 million dollars of ad spend and determined the average ad cost for the whole of 2016. Let me explain.