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

SEPTEMBER 18, 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. 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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The Creative Penn

DECEMBER 10, 2023

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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Neil Patel

JANUARY 20, 2021

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.

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The Creative Penn

MARCH 25, 2024

Matt Holmes gives his tips as well as insights from running my ads for my store, JFPennBooks.com. 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 she's got a total now of six books published.

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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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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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