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Hello creatives. I'm Joanna Penn. And this is episode number 610 of the podcast and it's Monday

the 14th of March, 2022 as I record this. So this is episode number 610 of the podcast, and it's Monday the 14th of March, 2022 as I record this.

So this is a solo episode, a futurist in-betweeny-sode about creativity, collaboration, community and

cash, NFTs for authors. Now, I put this out as a video on YouTube and on the blog, but I know many of you prefer audio only.

I certainly do.

So I wanted to put it out on the audio feed, but I also have, even if you've watched the video,

I've got an extra section up front, a little update.

Because, as I mentioned on this week's show, I minted my first NFT on OpenC, and it sold immediately,

so I minted another one, which also sold immediately. So I wanted to talk about, and thank you,

by the way, to those people who bought them. So I wanted to talk briefly about this before

playing the presentation, as things are moving on a pace right now.

So first of all, the book-specific NFT platforms are not quite ready yet, although many are

almost there, as in possibly in the next few weeks I will be minting some of my e-books, maybe even

audiobooks. So before then, because of a number of things, which I'll come to,

I decided to mint some of my AI generative art, which I've been playing with for a while now,

a couple of months. Now, this idea of visual art is not out of the blue for me. I know many of you

are also visual artists. So my family are

primarily visual artists. My dad's a printmaker. My brother's a photographer. My other brother

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