How Creativity Rules the World With Maria Brito
The Creative Penn Podcast For Writers
Joanna Penn
4.8 • 745 Ratings
🗓️ 17 October 2022
⏱️ 64 minutes
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How does curiosity fuel creativity? How can we balance consumption and creation in an ever-busier digital life? How can you break out of the myth of the ‘starving artist'? Maria Brito talks about How Creativity Rules the World. In the intro, insights into Colleen Hoover's popularity [NY Times]; Amazon bugs [Kindlepreneur]; Ingram invests in Book.io […]
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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. |
| 0:30.9 | Hello, creatives. I'm Joanna Penn. And this is episode number 650 of the podcast. And it is Friday the 14th of October 22 as I record this. |
| 0:42.2 | In today's show, I'm talking to Maria Brito about creativity. |
| 0:47.0 | How curiosity is the fuel for our creative work, keeping the balance between consumption and creation, input and output, the complex relationship |
| 0:56.0 | between money and art, and why our creative work is so important, not just for our individual |
| 1:02.5 | human flourishing, but also for the world. So that is coming up in the interview section. |
| 1:10.7 | In publishing news, well, there is a great article about Colleen. up in the interview section. |
| 1:16.4 | In publishing news, well, there is a great article about Colleen Hover in the New York Times this week. And I know it's not so much publishing, but she really is a great success story. |
| 1:21.4 | And I wanted to pick a few things out from the article. |
| 1:24.7 | She has sold more than 8.6 million books this year, more copies than the |
| 1:29.4 | Bible, as well as James Passison. She holds six of the ten top ten spots on the New York |
| 1:35.3 | Times paperback fiction bestseller list, a stunning number, these are quotes from the New York Times, |
| 1:40.9 | a stunning number of simultaneous bestsellers from a single author. |
| 1:45.2 | So what's lovely, and I remember when she got her first deal because Colleen self-published |
| 1:51.6 | her first young adult novel slammed in January 2012. At the time, she was making $9 an hour |
| 1:58.7 | as a social worker, living in a single wide trailer with her husband, |
| 2:03.1 | a long-distance truck driver and their three sons. She was elated when she made $30 in royalties |
| 2:10.0 | because it was enough to pay the water bill. So I really love hearing, I didn't know the |
| 2:16.2 | background that Colleen came from. And I think this is |
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