Podcast: Orna Ross, Joanna Penn share their 2021 goals

Posted on 01/10/2021 at 12:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Orna Ross of the Alliance of Independent Authors and Joanna Penn of The Creative Penn have both blogged about their...

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Tagged As: ALLi (Alliance of Independent Authors), Joanna Penn

Joanna Penn's lessons from 2020 and plans for 2021

Posted on 01/04/2021 at 10:49 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Joanna Penn has a number of New Year’s-themed posts that you perhaps (like we did) missed while taking some time...

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Tagged As: Joanna Penn, Motivational

Joanna Penn shares excerpts from “Your Author Business Plan”

Posted on 12/14/2020 at 10:20 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Your personal and emotional lives are definitely ready for 2021. Is your author career, though? If the answer isn’t a...

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Tagged As: Joanna Penn, The business of writing

Learn what a productivity system is and how it can help you write

Posted on 12/07/2020 at 03:53 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Get your week started off on the right foot with a conversation about productivity and focus. (Are we inviting you...

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Tagged As: Joanna Penn, Time management

Joanna Penn on what artificial intelligence means for authors

Posted on 12/02/2020 at 03:35 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Those of you who follow Joanna Penn on any routine basis know that she has a keen interest in how...

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Tagged As: Joanna Penn, Technology

Joanna Penn: Don't be afraid to pivot your author career

Posted on 11/25/2020 at 02:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

If 2020 has taught us anything, it’s that the world can change — whether we want it to or not....

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Tagged As: Joanna Penn, Motivational

5 issues to check in your book's audio version

Posted on 11/19/2020 at 11:17 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Just as there are proofreaders for text books, so there are audio proofers for audiobooks. One such professional, Maxwell Cantrell,...

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Tagged As: Audiobook, Joanna Penn

Writer and YouTuber shares her tips to video success

Posted on 11/17/2020 at 10:27 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Writers may feel most natural working with the written word, but there’s no question that ignoring the spoken version comes...

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Tagged As: Joanna Penn, Marketing, Video

2 perspectives on how to connect with other authors

Posted on 11/10/2020 at 03:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

A double dose of networking tips may feel a little incongruous right now, but we promise there’s real-time relevance with...

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Tagged As: Dave Chesson (the Kindlepreneur), Joanna Penn

Multigenre author Wendy H. Jones's marketing and mindset tips

Posted on 11/05/2020 at 11:05 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Another Fussy author has found her way onto The Creative Penn’s podcast! Wendy H. Jones writes a broad variety of...

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Tagged As: Joanna Penn, Marketing