Joanna Penn is a speaker, entrepreneur and award-nominated New York Times and USA Today bestselling author. Since becoming a writer she has authored 27 books and sold over 500,000 copies in 84 countries and 5 languages. She writes thrillers under the name of J.F.Penn and uses her full Joanna Penn name to write non-fiction for authors. When not sitting at a desk crafting her next work you’ll find her on stage speaking about self-publishing and book marketing. Her site, TheCreativePenn.com is regularly voted one of the Top 10 sites for both aspiring and professional writers.
In this episode, we cover:
- 1:56 – Standing desks and the healthy writer
- 5:49 – Developing multiple streams of income
- 7:42 – Why to publish independently
- 14:20 – Marketing your book without doing launches – Writing a classic
- 17:01 – Michael Bungay Stanier
- 18:28 – Steven Pressfield
- 22:26 – The artificial intelligence writer
- 23:53 – Centaurs and Augmented creativity
- 24:46 – Harry Potter bot
- 25:18 – Why personal branding is so important
- 26:18 – Leveraging your creativity
Resources mentioned in this episode:
- Scrivener
- 24 Assets by Daniel Priestley
- Career Change: Stop hating your job, discover what you really want to do with your life, and start doing it! by Joanna Penn
- Stone of Fire by Joanna Penn
- Rain and Thunderstorms album and noise-cancelling headphones
- The Creative Penn Podcast
- creativepenn.com
- @thecreativepenn
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