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 667 of the podcast, and it is Friday the 6th of January

2023 as I record this.

In today's show, I'm talking to Ros Morris about how to finally finish your book this year.

In the survey I did last autumn, one of the most common challenges for writers was actually finishing a book.

So we go through all the things that might be stopping you and how to overcome them.

So that's coming up in the interview section.

In publishing and book marketing news, well, very excitingly, now you can use Spotify promotion codes through

findaway voices to give away copies of your audiobooks on Spotify. Now you get 100 codes per book

and I'll link to the blog in the show notes. But basically, if you already publish your

audio books through findaway voices, you can go to your book, go to the specific tab, and it will give you 100 codes per

book. Now, why do we give away free books? Well, we want to encourage people to try our

audiobooks through a new platform. And of of course Spotify is new for audiobooks.

And to encourage you to try some of my books, I have some codes to give away.

For two of my books, I've picked to your author business plan, which might be useful for the new year.

And also Map of Shadows, the first in my Mapwalker Dark Fantasy trilogy.

So if you'd like a free promo code for one of these audiobooks on Spotify,

please email me, Joanna at thecreativepen.com,

and I'll say before the end of January, 2023,

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