Co-Writing In A Shared Universe And Changing Indie Business Models With Martha Carr
The Creative Penn Podcast For Writers
Joanna Penn
4.8 • 745 Ratings
🗓️ 20 February 2023
⏱️ 57 minutes
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How can you create a universe big enough for multiple series? How can you co-write successfully? How can you pivot your business model to achieve your creative, financial, and lifestyle goals? Martha Carr talks about these things and more. In the intro, Simon & Schuster is back up for sale [Reuters, Episode 662 with Jane […]
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Creative Pen podcast. I'm Joanna Penn, thriller author and creative entrepreneur, |
| 0:09.0 | bringing you interviews, inspiration and information on writing, publishing options and marketing ideas for your book. |
| 0:17.0 | You can find the episode show notes, your free author blueprint and lots more information at |
| 0:23.0 | TheCreativepen.com. And that's Penn with a double N. And here's the show. |
| 0:30.7 | Hello creatives. I'm Joanna Penn. And this is episode number 675 of the podcast, and it is Friday the 17th of February |
| 0:39.7 | 2023, as I record this back home in Bath. |
| 0:43.9 | In today's show, I'm talking to Martha Carr about co-writing in a shared universe, |
| 0:49.7 | being a prolific writer in her 60s and how to have a sustainable life, |
| 0:54.0 | as well as how indie business |
| 0:55.9 | models are shifting from rapid release plus KU into more direct channels like Kickstarter and why |
| 1:02.4 | it is never too late. So this is a great discussion and that is coming up in the interview section. |
| 1:11.4 | So in publishing news, Simon & Shuster is back up for sale, as reported by Reuters. |
| 1:18.7 | Paramount will court private equity firms because they do not compete with it |
| 1:23.9 | and would not raise competition concerns with US regulators that caused the demise of |
| 1:30.1 | the Penguin Random House deal last year. Paramount reiterated that Simon Schuster remained a non-core |
| 1:37.1 | asset that does not fit strategically within Paramount's broader portfolio. So if you thought that |
| 1:42.9 | was all over last year, no, and many of us |
| 1:46.8 | knew it would not be over and many of us actually thought it would be better to sell a publishing |
| 1:51.7 | house to another publisher. But now it looks like a private equity firm, which is a very different |
| 1:56.5 | prospect. Jane Friedman and I talked about the whole thing in more detail in episode 662 in |
| 2:03.6 | December, so just a couple of months ago. So you can go listen to that episode for the background |
| 2:08.2 | on the Department of Justice case against Penguin Random House's acquisition. But basically, |
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