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. Now I want to make it my focus.

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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. Labor costs: You need to pay professionals to create, publish, and distribute your content.

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The Creative Penn

DECEMBER 29, 2024

Penn Spear of Destiny , the Gothic Cathedral project, and short stories I researched, wrote and then did a Kickstarter for Spear of Destiny , ARKANE Thriller #13, before publishing it wide a few months later. Essentially, if you take photos on private property, you cannot just use those photos in commercial projects.

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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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ProBlogger

OCTOBER 17, 2010

One business was a sure thing; the other was a side project. My side project was a blog: womeninbusiness.com.au. I had been working online since 2001 and by 2008 was confident I’d accumulated enough skills and experience that finding work wouldn’t be a problem. Ten steps to sustainability. Establish a personal blog.

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The Creative Penn

JANUARY 28, 2023

I mean, I had over a hundred thousand words in a Scrivener project. We have all our lines and of course I do share, I share a lot and have done since I was online in 2008. And those two people, I was like, I really hope they don't say I can't publish it because it's already done. I actually gave them the hardback. Sara: Oh wow.

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The Creative Penn

DECEMBER 31, 2022

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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The Creative Penn

DECEMBER 30, 2022

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've been selling direct since 2008 when I started online, but it's always been an afterthought for book sales. Sudowrite Tutorial here ].

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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. Features include interaction tracking, event and project management, calendar booking, SMS marketing , surveys, video tracking, and predictive analysis.

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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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Neil Patel

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Since 2005, Arianna Huffington and her Huffington Post co-founders have been publishing news stories as they unfold. goop is a wellness and lifestyle brand started by actress Gwyneth Paltrow as a weekly lo-fi newsletter back in 2008. It’s not a true media publisher, and he makes money selling advertising space. You name it.

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The Creative Penn

MARCH 27, 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. But the publishing landscape has changed. Here are the highlights and the full transcript is below.

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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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The Creative Penn

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

The conversation delves into the challenges and benefits of creating a new edition versus updating an existing one, the impact of technology, including AI, on the writing and publishing industry, and the importance of storytelling in nonfiction. And then imported that into a new Scrivener project. That was really strange.

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Smart Blogger

JUNE 17, 2024

If your post looks good in the editor, it’s going to look good when your post goes live after you click the “Ready to publish?” And speaking of what happens after publishing, there’s something else Medium offers you for the whopping price of zero dollars and zero cents: The chance to be featured in front of their 60+ million readers.

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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. And what I find difficult, and I think a lot of people find difficult with their creative projects, is saying no to work after 7pm is one thing, but what if you have all these ideas?

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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

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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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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The Creative Penn

OCTOBER 8, 2023

So first up— Tell us a bit more about you and how you got into writing and publishing. Then I kind of fell backwards into writing romance and into publishing because my husband was in the military, we got sent to Japan, and there are no jobs there. That was 2008, and it just never stopped. Joanna: Wow. I am burned out.

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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 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. 2017 is when I published my first dark fantasy novel.

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ProBlogger

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

This post was first published on: Jun 17, 2008 . It can happen for many reasons whether it be your life getting busy, suffering from a bout of bloggers block or becoming distracted by another project. Photo by Juli Moreira on Unsplash. Problem: Perhaps the fastest way to let your blog go is to stop posting to it.

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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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ProBlogger

DECEMBER 30, 2011

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. Alexis Grant is a publishing powerhouse. He was one of the first in my community to experiment with Kindle publishing.

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The Creative Penn

JANUARY 29, 2024

This podcast is sponsored by Kobo Writing Life , which helps authors self-publish and reach readers in global markets through the Kobo eco-system. But before we get into that− Tell us a bit more about you, your writing and publishing background, and how the hell you manage your time! Joanna: So Starcane Press is your publishing house?

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ProBlogger

APRIL 19, 2017

His latest project, Examine.Com, garners around 70,000 visitors a day and is a seven-figure business. He created Bushwalking Blog in 2008 to provide detailed reports of his hikes. I featured Alexis as one of the 20 Bloggers to Watch in 2012 describing her as a “publishing powerhouse.” Find out SujanPatel.com.

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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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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). This post was first published on June 28, 2008 and updated November 3, 2021.

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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). This post was first published on June 28, 2008 and updated November 3, 2021.

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ProBlogger

JULY 14, 2011

None of what I’m about to share has made a significant improvement, but hopefully this article will provide insight for other publishers. A lot of publishers felt slighted because AdSense optimization specialists have always pushed for more ad blocks and more aggressive placements. When Panda struck. Site analysis.

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ProBlogger

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Updated post first published Jun 17, 2008 . It can happen for many reasons whether it be your life getting busy, suffering from a bout of bloggers block or becoming distracted by another project. Photo by Juli Moreira on Unsplash. Letting Your Blog Go #1.

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The Creative Penn

APRIL 1, 2024

Traditional versus indie publishing Short term versus long term Income versus brand building Paid versus free The book versus you as the author Stand-alone versus series Exclusive versus wide publishing Publish fast versus publish slowly Write to market versus write first, market later Online versus offline.

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ProBlogger

NOVEMBER 30, 2014

Other writers are using their blog as a platform to launch creative projects that might not necessarily have much to do with the topic of their site. For example, I am writing and publishing dark fantasy fiction, and my site is a music website, but I’m using it as my platform as many music fans also enjoy dark fantasy.

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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). This post was first published on June 28, 2008 and updated November 3, 2021.

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ProBlogger

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

He used guest posts to launch his profile in a niche but then drew back a little in order to work on his own projects – then went on another ‘burst’ to launch his next project or give his older ones another round of promotion. This article was first published on March 12, 2008 and updated February 3, 2022.

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