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Today’s Guest
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I first discovered today’s guest, Joanna Penn, back when I launched my Tribal Publishing business in 2012. She was clearly one of the top names in self publishing, and I’ve been following her ever since. If you’ve ever thought of writing a book, either fiction or non-fiction, you’ll want to follow Joanna via her blog and her social media profiles. She shares a wealth of information about both writing and marketing your books.
About Joanna Penn
Joanna Penn is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling thriller author of thrillers, as well as non-fiction for authors. Joanna is also also a professional speaker and entrepreneur, voted as one of The Guardian UK Top 100 creative professionals 2013.
Joanna’s site, TheCreativePenn.com, helps people with information and inspiration on writing, self-publishing, book marketing and creative entrepreneurship.
What You’ll Learn
- Joanna’s top tips for how to make a living with your writing
- Why you need to trust in emergence: a story will emerge
- How to know if it’s the thing for you
- Why you shouldn’t get hung up on length (and what to go for instead)
- How long it took Joanna to build a successful platform and community
Inspiring Women
- Christiane Lagarde
- Angela Merkel
- Arianna Huffington
- Gillian Flynn
Things We Discussed
- The Tim Ferriss podcast, Arnold Schwarzenegger episode
- Joanna’s podcast
- Dark Places, by Gillian Flynn
- Sharp Objects, by Gillian Flynn
- AuthorEarnings.com
- Steve Scott’s Self Publishing Questions podcast
