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Checking facts with players who are still in the game

The Idea Logical Company

The other thing was that they both started working their genres (and they publish exclusively genre fiction) in 2008 or so, before the rush of self-publishers in genres had saturated the market. So they established their brands in their genre marketplace when the competition was still minimal.

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The Secret to Hitting the Creative Sweet Spot

Content Marketing Institute

This article is adapted from an excerpt in the new book The Creative Curve by Allen Gannett, from Penguin Random House. Most of what you know about creativity is a lie. Our culture has embraced the idea that creative genius is inborn and innate. You’re either a brilliantly creative content marketer or you’re not.

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My 2023 Creative and Business Goals With Joanna Penn

The Creative Penn

Continue The Creative Penn Podcast. Penn, but the basic concept is about writing from your darker side, and about integrating your shadow into your creative work, rather than trying to bury it or sublimate it. Now it's time to turn it into a book that you might be able to use for your creative process.

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Review Of My 2024 Creative And Business Goals With Joanna Penn

The Creative Penn

Another year ends, and once more, it's time to reflect on our creative goals. Shes also an award-winning podcaster, creative entrepreneur, and international professional speaker. I am the kind of creative who enjoys wrangling chaos and I can be a whirlwind of creative energy. Did you achieve everything you wanted to?

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Review Of My 2022 Creative Business Goals

The Creative Penn

Another year ends, and once more, it's time to reflect on our creative goals. Embrace multi-passionate creativity — and optimize for curiosity — as we move into The Creative Future. The Creative Penn website and podcast. Yes, creatively, because I am much happier about advertising the early books in the series now.

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Michael Lewis (Once Again) Tells the Biggest Story in Finance

Jane Friedman

Michael Lewis hit the story of a lifetime when he published his bestselling book, The Big Short , about the 2008 subprime mortgage crisis. Creative Artists Agency announced that Michael Lewis has spent the past six months interviewing FTX founder, Sam Bankman-Fried. It was the ultimate setup.

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The Importance Of Confident Creative Direction, Voice, And Taste, In Generative AI Art With Oliver Altair

The Creative Penn

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.