The Creative Penn Podcast For Writers

The Creative Penn Podcast For Writers


Latest Episodes

Building A Long Term Author Business, Dictation, Kickstarter, and Short Story Collections With Kevin J Anderson
January 20, 2025

How can you build a long-term author career with multiple streams of income? How can you use technology for the grunt work and not the fun part of writing? Kevin J Anderson gives his tips. In the intr

Balancing Creativity With Building A Business, And Author Nation With Joe Solari
January 13, 2025

How can you balance creativity with business in order to have a profitable, long-term author career? What were the successes and challenges of the Author Nation conference? Joe Solari shares his persp

Writing Tips: Craft, Structure, and Voice With Kristen Tate
January 06, 2025

Are you curious about the hidden structures that turn ordinary manuscripts into irresistible page-turning stories? Wondering how to shape your characters, scenes, and chapters so readers cant put you

My 2025 Creative And Business Goals With Joanna Penn
January 01, 2025

Happy New Year 2025! I love January and the opportunity to start afresh. I know its arbitrary in some ways, butI measure my life by what I create, and I also measure it in years. At the beginning of

Review Of My 2024 Creative And Business Goals With Joanna Penn
December 30, 2024

Another year ends, and once more, it's time to reflect on our creative goals. I hope you can take the time to review your goals and you're welcome to leave a comment below about how the year went. Did

Creative Clarity: Focus, Self-Care, And A Little Bit Of Tough Love
December 23, 2024

How can you create when there's an overwhelming list of things to do and too many competing priorities? How can you balance self-care with achieving your creative goals. In this episode, Ill share so

Book Proposals, Writing Non-Fiction, And Supercommunicators With Charles Duhigg
December 16, 2024

How can you write a book proposal that will make a publisher want to buy your book? How can you write a successful non-fiction book that both interests you and attracts a lot of readers? How can you i

Building A Business Ecosystem Around Non-Fiction Books With Michael Bungay Stanier
December 09, 2024

How can you build a scalable business around non-fiction books? How can you turn a book into multiple streams of income? How can you delegate in order to scale? Michael Bungay Stanier shares his thoug

Writing The Other And Self-Publishing in South Africa With Ashling McCarthy
December 02, 2024

How can we write from the perspective of others while still respecting different cultures? How can a children's book author make money from bulk sales? How is self-publishing in South Africa different

The Intuitive Author With Tiffany Yates Martin
November 25, 2024

How can you manage the competing priorities of an author career? How can you deal with the demons we all have to wrestle with along the way? Tiffany Yates Martin talks about the role of intuition in d