How to Research Your Book With Vikki Carter, The Author’s Librarian
The Creative Penn Podcast For Writers
Joanna Penn
4.8 • 745 Ratings
🗓️ 18 October 2021
⏱️ 66 minutes
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How do you research a book in the most appropriate way? How can you keep track of your sources and attribute them correctly, as well as avoiding inadvertent plagiarism? How can you get your book/s into libraries? Vikki Carter talks about all these questions and more. In the intro, Has Amazon Changed Fiction? [New Republic]; […]
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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 579 of the podcast. And it is Friday the 15th of October 2021 as I record this. |
| 0:42.4 | In today's show, I'm talking about how to research your book with Vicki Carter, the Authors Librarian. |
| 0:49.1 | We talk about why research is so important for fiction and nonfiction, different research techniques, how to keep |
| 0:55.5 | track of your notes, and how to acknowledge your sources and do citations appropriately to avoid |
| 1:01.2 | unintentional plagiarism, as well as how to build your community by referring other authors, |
| 1:06.9 | plus how to get your book into libraries. So I am a research addict. This was a fun discussion |
| 1:14.0 | coming up in the interview section. In publishing and book marketing news, so Jane Friedman |
| 1:22.5 | in the hot sheet shared a link to an article in the New Republic, which asks the question, |
| 1:29.4 | has Amazon changed fiction? |
| 1:33.3 | Is this a new age of literature shaped by an algorithm? |
| 1:43.8 | And it basically discusses a new book called Everything and Less, the novel in the Age of Amazon by Mark McGill, who's a professor of literature at Stanford University. So essentially, he says |
| 1:46.0 | that platforms for literature subject it to the same homogenising effects. And because anyone can |
| 1:53.5 | self-publish on KDP, it bypasses the publishing world's usual hierarchy of gatekeepers. |
| 1:59.4 | But it also says, the ultimate gatekeeper for KDP |
| 2:02.5 | is Amazon itself, which rewards specific kinds of books and authors, promoting them through |
| 2:07.8 | its recommendation feeds. Now, of course, this is my comment. This assumes that the Amazon |
| 2:14.9 | literature is self-published, but of course most publishers sell their books on |
| 2:20.5 | Amazon and are subject to the same algorithms. And as I'll come to in a minute, there's another |
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