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

The Creative Penn Podcast For Writers

Joanna Penn

Self-improvement, Arts, Books, Entrepreneurship, Business, Education

4.8 • 745 Ratings

🗓️ 20 January 2025

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

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 intro, has TikTok gone dark? [AP]; BookVault is expanding printing to Australia; GPSR, the EU’s new General Product Safety Regulation [Self-Publishing Advice]; CreatedByHumans.ai launches in partnership with The Authors Guild for AI data licensing [Publishing Perspectives]; Simon & Schuster launches audio-first imprint featuring content from self-published authors [Publishers Weekly].

Plus, 7 Steps for How to Write Non-Fiction [Reedsy Live replay]; Publishing predictions for 2025 [Draft2Digital’s Self-Publishing Insiders]; Creative and life challenges with me and Orna Ross [Self-Publishing with ALLi]; Death Valley – A Thriller, coming in March!

Today's show is sponsored by Draft2Digital, self-publishing with support, where you can get free formatting, free distribution to multiple stores, and a host of other benefits. Just go to www.draft2digital.com to get started.

This show is also supported by my Patrons. Join my Community at Patreon.com/thecreativepenn

Kevin J. Anderson is the multi-award-winning and internationally bestselling author of over 190 books across different genres, with over 24 million copies in print across 34 languages. He's also the director of publishing at Western Colorado University, as well as a publisher at WordFire Press, an editor and rock album lyricist, and he's co-written Dune books and worked on the recent Dune movies and TV show.

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Show Notes

* Adapting throughout a 40-year author career

* The importance of having a Plan B when the industry changes

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Creative Pen podcast. I'm Joanna Penn, thriller author and creative entrepreneur,
0:08.0	bringing you interviews, inspiration and information on writing craft and creative business.
0:14.7	You can find the episode show notes, your free author blueprint, and lots more at thecreativepen.com.
0:22.5	And that's Penn with a double N. And here's the show.
0:26.4	Hello, creatives. I'm Gerana Penn, and this is episode number 791 of the podcast, and
0:32.5	it is Saturday the 18th of January 2025 as I record this. In today's show, I talk to Kevin J. Anderson
0:40.9	about building a long-term author business, how his dictation process has changed with AI tools,
0:48.0	why Kickstarter is an important part of his multiple streams of income, and short story collections.
0:56.2	So that's coming up in the interview section. In writing and publishing things. Well, as I record this, it's still unclear whether
1:05.6	TikTok will go dark tomorrow, but you will know by the time this goes out whether that
1:10.6	happened.
1:11.5	Outgoing President Biden in the US has passed the responsibility over to incoming President
1:17.5	Trump, who will probably do some kind of deal and keep it alive in some form.
1:22.5	But I wanted to comment more on whether this happens or not.
1:28.0	It is important to feel the feeling of the potential loss of a platform.
1:33.6	And for some of you, this might be the first time you have felt this loss of control.
1:38.4	And it is so important to remember how it feels when someone else,
1:42.6	where a person or an organization or a company
1:45.3	threatens your access to an audience and therefore impacts your book sales and your income.
1:52.0	Because if you are an author for the long term, this will happen to you at some point.
1:57.0	And Kevin and I discuss part of the in the interview section in his many decades
2:02.3	in the author business, the things that happened, you know, went well for a while, then
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