Co-Writing The Relaxed Author with Mark Leslie Lefebvre
The Creative Penn Podcast For Writers
Joanna Penn
4.8 • 745 Ratings
🗓️ 27 September 2021
⏱️ 72 minutes
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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 publishing and marketing it. In the […]
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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. |
| 0:25.5 | And that's Penn with a double N. |
| 0:27.7 | And here's the show. |
| 0:30.6 | Hello, creatives. |
| 0:32.2 | I'm Joanna Penn. |
| 0:33.4 | And this is episode number 575 of the podcast. |
| 0:42.6 | And it is Sunday the 26th of September 2021 as I record this. |
| 0:55.4 | In today's show, I'm talking with Mark Leslie Lefeve, my friend of a decade, and now my co-writer for The Relaxed Author, which is out now in all the usual formats, in all the usual places. |
| 1:01.1 | We talk about how we split the writing and publishing roles, how we are very different in some ways, sometimes unexpected, even though our thoughts and ideas sometimes overlap on specific |
| 1:07.1 | writing and publishing topics, how we use dictation for the first draft and why that |
| 1:11.7 | was both useful and challenging, and how our principles for staying relaxed helped us with the book, |
| 1:17.7 | plus some tips on reing a relaxed author. So that's coming up in the interview section. |
| 1:24.8 | In publishing and book marketing news this week, there are lots of interesting things happening, actually, in publishing that go beyond a sort of traditional model. |
| 1:34.0 | So first of all, Netflix buys the Roll Dahl catalogue. |
| 1:37.9 | As they say in a press release, these projects opened our eyes to a much more ambitious venture. |
| 1:43.7 | The creation of a unique universe |
| 1:45.6 | across animated and live action films and TV, publishing, games, immersive experiences, |
| 1:52.8 | live theatre, consumer products and more. So if you, I mean, each of those things is a whole |
| 1:58.9 | area. They do mention publishing. So presumably they, since they own the books, they can, |
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