Embracing Multi-Passionate Creativity And Running A Small Press With Jessica Bell
The Creative Penn Podcast For Writers
Joanna Penn
4.8 • 745 Ratings
🗓️ 14 June 2021
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Some say you can only be successful if you focus on one thing, but what if you are a multi-passionate creative? What if your Muse is inspired to write song lyrics as well as poetry, non-fiction as well as novels and heart-wrenching memoir? Jessica Bell manages to juggle many aspects of a creative career and […]
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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. |
| 0:30.5 | Hello creatives. I'm Joanna Penn. And this is episode number 557 of the podcast. And it is Friday, |
| 0:41.0 | the 11th of June 2021 as I record this. |
| 0:47.6 | In today's show, I'm talking to Jessica Bell about her journey as a multi-passionate creative and how she combines all these things, writing song lyrics and fiction and memoir and nonfiction, and all |
| 0:55.0 | these things play a part in her author life, and she also runs a small press as well. |
| 1:01.1 | So I hope it's encouraging to those of you who, like Jessica and like me, just can't focus on |
| 1:07.3 | one thing. And no matter how many times I say, oh, I really just should focus on this |
| 1:12.8 | or this series or this particular thing and then I'm like, oh, my brain just popcorn's all |
| 1:18.8 | over the place. So yes, that is coming up in the interview section. |
| 1:27.0 | In publishing news, an interesting story this week in The Guardian here in the |
| 1:31.4 | UK, as Jeanette Winterson burned some of her own books, saying on Twitter, absolutely hated |
| 1:38.8 | the cozy little domestic blurbs on my new covers, turned me into women's fiction of the worst kind. Nothing playful |
| 1:47.7 | or strange or the ahead of the time stuff that's in there. So I set them on fire. Now, as a few things |
| 1:54.8 | here, if you don't know, Jeanette Winterson is very well known here in the UK. In fact, her book, |
| 1:59.6 | oranges are not the only fruit, is studied |
| 2:02.2 | in school. I studied it at A level. I mean, maybe it's not anymore, but it certainly was when I went |
| 2:07.1 | to school. And she's a very respected feminist author award-winning 30 years of publishing and writing. |
| 2:14.1 | And, you know, she's just, she's a very famous literary figure here. So this was, |
| 2:18.9 | this is a big deal and she's a, well, I would have thought a very powerful author in that she |
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