How To Make A Living With Your Writing: First Principles
The Creative Penn Podcast For Writers
Joanna Penn
4.8 • 745 Ratings
🗓️ 22 April 2021
⏱️ 23 minutes
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If you want to make a living with your writing, you will need the right mindset, as well as the practical skills to write, publish and market your books. In this excerpt from How to Make a Living with Your Writing Third Edition: Turn Your Words into Multiple Streams of Income, I go into the […]
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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 Pen with a double N. And here's the show. |
| 0:30.8 | Hello creatives. I'm Joanna Penn. And this is episode number 547 of the podcast. And it is Friday |
| 0:37.4 | the 16th of April 2021 as I record this. |
| 0:41.2 | In today's show, I'm sharing a chapter from my audiobook, How to Make a Living with Your Writing, the Third Edition, which is out now on every audio platform. |
| 0:50.2 | I narrated the audiobook, so I hope you find it useful. |
| 0:53.5 | This is an introductory chapter on |
| 0:55.3 | first principles, and then the rest of the book is split into two parts. Part one takes you through |
| 1:00.6 | the importance of intellectual property assets, how to make money with books through different |
| 1:05.1 | formats, vendors, global reach, selling direct and positioning, and how to take control of your |
| 1:10.1 | author career however you choose to publish. Part two, and how to take control of your author career however you |
| 1:11.6 | choose to publish. Part two goes into how to make money in other ways with writing at the heart |
| 1:17.6 | of your creative business and includes your author ecosystem, affiliate income, crowdfunding and patronage, |
| 1:24.3 | speaking, teaching and online courses and events, advertising and sponsorship, |
| 1:28.4 | physical products and merchandise, freelance writing, consulting, coaching services and other |
| 1:33.6 | things including grants, prizes, public lending rights and more. The final chapter guides you |
| 1:40.0 | through the transition and your next steps on the journey to making a living with your writing. |
| 1:45.5 | So even if you read the earlier edition or listened to the earlier edition, this is a significant |
| 1:51.2 | rewrite with a lot of extra material. It is full of ways to help you make more money as an author. |
| 1:57.8 | And seriously, if you make it through the book without getting any ideas, please email me |
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