Welcome to the Creative Pen podcast. I'm Joanna Penn, thriller author and creative entrepreneur,

bringing you interviews, inspiration and information on writing, publishing options and marketing ideas for your book.

You can find the episode show notes, your free author blueprint and lots more information at

TheCreativepen.com.

And that's Penn with a double N.

And here's the show.

Hello, creatives.

I'm Joanna Penn.

And this is episode number 674 of the podcast.

And it is Saturday, the 11th of February,

2023, as I record this from, you can probably tell from the audio, I am in a hotel room.

I'm at the Antlers Hotel in Colorado Springs, where I've been speaking at the Superstars Writing Convention.

And more on that in my personal update,

but yes, the audio is not so great in this intro, but it improves for the interview, which I recorded a few weeks back. So in today's show, I'm talking to Honoré Corder about why you need

a book marketing mindset, tips for marketing your backlist, tapping into your ambition and more.

Now, I love talking to Honorei as she has a brilliant business mind and she has a real

positive spin on things as well. So that's coming up in the interview section.

So in publishing and book marketing news, well, Draft to Digital have just added a new library partner.

Founded by the Digital Public Library of America, Palace Marketplace, is the only not-for-profit

e-book marketplace for libraries, making it easier for libraries to quickly build their collections

of high quality in the e-books. Over 400 libraries

and library systems across the US have already signed on with more to come. So if you publish through

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