Welcome to the Creative Pen podcast. I'm Joanna Penn, thriller author and creative entrepreneur,

bringing you interviews, inspiration and information on writing, publishing options and marketing ideas for your book.

You can find the episode show notes, your free author blueprint and lots more information at thecreativepen.com.

And that's Penn with a double N.

And here's the show.

Hello creatives. I'm Joanna Penn.

And this is episode number 67 of the podcast, and it is Sunday the 26th of February

2023 as I record this, and it's almost March, which is scary. So in today's show, I'm talking

to poet and inspirational author Pierre Jeonti about how he runs his seven-figure business by selling direct on Shopify.

You'll also learn about a mistake that I have made.

I kind of knew I'd made and I still haven't decided what to do about it.

But Pierre does help me with that and hopefully it saves you from making the same mistake.

So that's coming up in the interview section.

In publishing and book marketing news, well, the Alliance of Independent Authors is doing an

income survey to try and shed some more light on author incomes. The survey is aimed at self-published

authors who spend more than 50% of their time on writing and

publishing. And it's pretty short, so you can do it quickly. And we really do need more data

in this area. So please go to self-publishingadvice.org forward slash survey 23. And as ever,

links in the show notes, I have done mine.

There's also a good article on writer unboxed by the wonderful Victoria Strauss,

who runs the writer-beware blog, with clauses to watch out for if you're signing a publishing contract.

Now, absolutely sign a publishing contracts, but only if you know what you're doing. And this is

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