The Empowerment Of Selling Books Direct To Your Readers With Steve Pieper

Subscriptions And The Creator Economy With Michael Evans: How might subscriptions help expand your author business ecosystem? What are some tips on encouraging readers to buy direct? Why is the future looking positive for authors in the creator economy? Michael Evans gives his thoughts. In the intro, by The Creative Penn Podcast For Writers

71 min listen

Your Author Brand With Isabelle Knight: How do you find the story behind all your stories? Who are you at the heart of your books? Isabelle Knight talks about the importance of author brand in an age of limitless content, and gives tips on how to discover yours. In the intro, by The Creative Penn Podcast For Writers

60 min listen

Hilma Wolitzer: 80 years of writing, and not done yet: The 92 year old New Yorker talks feminism, vanity, being raised to be a "housewife" and losing her husband of 68 years to covid by The Shift with Sam Baker

52 min listen

Bringing Old World Publishing Skills To New World Creators With John Bond From White Fox: What has changed in publishing over the last decade? How can a reputable author services company help you achieve your publishing goals? In this interview with John Bond from White Fox, we discuss aspects of the publishing journey. by The Creative Penn Podcast For Writers

36 min listen

Improve Your Creativity With Dan Holloway: How can we improve our creativity and release our self-censorship to write more freely? Dan Holloway talks about aspects of creativity as well as physical challenges, neurodiversity, and how technology might augment us in this interview. In the intro, by The Creative Penn Podcast For Writers

75 min listen

Kandi Steiner on Mindset and the Joy of Writing: Episode 049 / Kandi Steiner shares the importance of mindset for writers and how being thankful helps us enjoy writing. Kandi is a wizard on Instagram, and we delve into her top tips. Plus, how to deal with books that don’t live up to our... by Wish I'd Known Then . . . For Writers

64 min listen

Best of Design Matters:Jason Reynolds: Jason Reynolds—award-winning author and National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature—discusses his prolific writing career that inspires young readers to discover their own stories. by Design Matters with Debbie Millman

85 min listen

What’s Love Got To Do With It?: Tune in as Katie and Nusrah talk about cozy mysteries to stay in with this Valentine’s Day. by Read or Dead

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Self-Publishing A Cookery Photo Book With Jane Dixon-Smith: Do you want to publish an image-heavy book like a cookbook? How can you navigate the challenges of photography, book design, and publishing choices to make the best product possible? Jane Dixon-Smith shares her lessons learned from her first cookbook. by The Creative Penn Podcast For Writers

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Bonus Episode: Listen to The #AmWriting Podcast with Guest Jenny Lawson: If you like hearing about the craft of writing and the writing life, you’ll love this bonus episode from The #AmWriting Podcast. by Book Dreams

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How Bestselling Hybrid Author Dean Wesley Smith Writes: Part Two: Wildly prolific, bestselling novelist — Dean Wesley Smith — has been a full-time writer since the ’80s, and he made a visit to the show to talk about how he has written (and ghostwritten) hundreds of titles over the years. Rainmaker.FM is... by The Writer Files: Writing, Productivity, Creativity, and Neuroscience

25 min listen

Patience, Ambition, And Financial Independence With MK Williams: How can you cultivate patience for your long-term author career? How can you figure out your personal, creative and financial goals and make choices toward them? MK Williams talks about these questions, as well as podcast marketing and turning a blog o... by The Creative Penn Podcast For Writers

58 min listen

Can Stories Save The World? Writing For The Environment With Denise Baden: The relentless news about climate change can leave us despondent — but what if we can use fiction to help people with positive ideas of what the future could look like and the actions we can take to change things? by The Creative Penn Podcast For Writers

38 min listen

Mona Simpson, author of “Commitment”: Mona Simpson is the bestselling author of seven novels including Anywhere But Here, The Lost Father, A Regular Guy, Off Keck Road, My Hollywood, Casebook and, most recently, Commitment. Mona studied poetry at Berkley. She got her MFA from Columbia. During grad school, she published her first short stories in Ploughshares, The Iowa Review and Mademoiselle. She worked as an editor at The Paris Review for five years. She also teaches at UCLA. She knows the industry from several angles and has worked in it for decades. She joins Marrie Stone to talk about Commitment and writing multiple point-of-view novels. They talk about maintaining momentum in a novel’s middle, bringing bygone eras back to life, breathing life into your characters, playing the role of psychologist as writer, the role of research and much more. In many ways, Commitment might be considered a “what-if” novel. Some aspects bear resemblance to Mona’s life and other aspects are very diff by Writers on Writing: A Weekly Podcast for Writers, Readers, & Book Lovers

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How Award-Winning Author & Educator K.M. Weiland Writes: Part Two: In Part Two of this file the multiple award-winning, internationally published author, podcaster, and writing coach, K.M. Weiland, stopped by the show to chat with me about Helping Writers Become Authors, balancing creativity and logic, and beating... by The Writer Files: Writing, Productivity, Creativity, and Neuroscience

29 min listen

The Finale Beat: What do you, the writer, need to know? by Save The Cat! Podcast

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Memoirist Kim Foster, author of The Meth Lunches: Food and Longing in an American City: Kim Foster is the author of the memoir The Meth Lunches: Food and Longing in an American City. Kim is a James Beard Award-winning food writer who writes about people at the intersection of food and mental illness, family separation, poverty, addiction, trauma, and incarceration. You can read her work on her weekly newsletter on Substack and find her on Instagram. She lives in Las Vegas, Nevada with her husband, David, their four kids, and many animals. Kim joins Barbara DeMarco-Barrett to discuss hybrid publishing, surprises in writing her memoir, when she knew this would be a book, writing about food that isn’t pretty, learning to never write anyone off, and much more. For more information on Writers on Writing and additional writing tips, visit our Patreon page. To listen to past interviews, visit our website. We’re also excited to announce the opening of our new bookstore on bookshop.org. We’ve s by Writers on Writing: A Weekly Podcast for Writers, Readers, & Book Lovers

61 min listen

79. Dreaming Big in 2024: Strategies for your most creative year yet! by Self Taught Artist

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NFTs for Authors And Publishing with John Fox: Why are NFTs (Non-Fungible Tokens) so exciting for authors and the publishing industry? How will they generate more streams of revenue for creators? What are some ways that authors could use them? All this and more in today's interview. by The Creative Penn Podcast For Writers

55 min listen

How NY Times Bestselling Thriller Writer Jeffery Deaver Writes: Part Two: #1 international bestselling author of over 40 novels, Jeffery Deaver, returns to rap about his prolific output, an award-winning handbook for mystery writers, and the latest Colter Shaw novel, "Hunting Time." by The Writer Files: Writing, Productivity, Creativity, and Neuroscience

44 min listen

Final Edits of a Short Story: Beat Construction and 624 Analysis: Now that Tim has had a breakthrough on his iteration of EYE WITNESS by Ed McBain, we're getting down to fixing individual Beats and checking to make sure he's adhered to the Story Grid 624 Analysis. You really see the Story Grid Tools shine in this episode as Leslie and Danielle apply them to Tim's writing to find places still left to fix. Click here to read Tim's scene: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1b-RzszE7YzLEn5fSlWAqVQ_OkXhuJg3cxfZImXzIkYI/edit?usp=sharing To see the transcript of this episode, visit: https://storygrid.com/episode-282 — Get a free copy of our book Story Grid 101: The First Five Principles of the Story Grid Methodology: https://storygrid101.com This is Episode 282 of the Story Grid Podcast: https://storygrid.com/podcast by Story Grid Writing Podcast

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Writing Beginnings with Shane Millar: What do you need in the beginning of your novel so your reader buys your book? Shane Millar shares tips for writing brilliant beginnings, regardless of your genre. In the intro, trends in what publishers want at Frankfurt Book Fair [Publishing Perspect... by The Creative Penn Podcast For Writers

64 min listen

How To Use Mystery To Hook Your Readers With Jonah Lehrer: How can you use elements of mystery to hook your readers, regardless of the genre you write? How can you make sure your writing process prevents errors or plagiarism? Jonah Lehrer covers these aspects and more. In the intro, by The Creative Penn Podcast For Writers

20 min listen

How Bestselling Author Daniel Pink Writes: Multiple New York Times bestselling author Daniel Pink stopped by The Writer Files to chat about his secrets for getting words onto the page. Rainmaker.FM is Brought to You By Discover why more than 80,000 companies in 135 countries... by The Writer Files: Writing, Productivity, Creativity, and Neuroscience

31 min listen

Take Back Your Book: An Author’s Guide to Rights Reversion and Publishing on Your Terms With Katlyn Duncan: How can you take back your rights when publishing conditions change? How can you make sure you sign contracts that make it easier for rights reversion in the future? Katlyn Duncan talks about these things and more. In the intro, by The Creative Penn Podcast For Writers

57 min listen

How to Write Impactful Historical Fiction with Award-Winning Author Talia Carner: Part One: Award-winning novelist, speaker, and activist Talia Carner spoke with me about the intensive research processes that go into her novels, why she chose fiction to write about global social issues, the real-life crisis happening right before our eyes... by The Writer Files: Writing, Productivity, Creativity, and Neuroscience

28 min listen

Co-Writing The Relaxed Author with Mark Leslie Lefebvre: How can you be a more relaxed author when there is always so much more to do? How can you co-write a book and retain different voices in written text as well as audio? Mark Leslie Lefebvre and I discuss how we co-wrote The Relaxed Author and how we're ... by The Creative Penn Podcast For Writers

20 min listen

Beat Breakdown: Analyzing Writing Line-by-Line - Part 3: Learn how your line-by-line writing can be improved by the Story Grid Beat methodology. In this episode, we show you the final line graph generated by our beat-by-beat analysis and how this can help you write better scenes. — Get a free copy of our book Story Grid 101: The First Five Principles of the Story Grid Methodology: https://storygrid101.com For episode transcript and downloads: https://storygrid.com/episode-263 This is Episode 263 of the Story Grid Podcast: https://storygrid.com/podcast This is our in-depth analysis of the short story EYE WITNESS by Ed McBain: https://amzn.to/3Q2UpqV by Story Grid Writing Podcast

62 min listen

SSP117 Making a Living Writing with Rachael Herron: Being a writer requires doing the seriously hard work of writing. But making a living writing requires more. In today’s episode, Rachael Herron talks about all the different income streams […] by The Story Studio Podcast - Writing, Storytelling, and Marketing Advice for Writers & Business

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Kickstarter For Authors With Monica Leonelle: Would you like to successfully crowdfund your book on Kickstarter? Monica Leonelle shares practical and mindset tips for creating the right kind of project, as well as mistakes to avoid, and how to satisfy fans — and make money with your books. by The Creative Penn Podcast For Writers

55 min listen

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