How To Write A Bestseller With Suzy K Quinn
The Creative Penn Podcast For Writers
Joanna Penn
4.8 • 745 Ratings
🗓️ 10 August 2020
⏱️ 41 minutes
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How can you write what you love and still aim for bestseller status? How can you combine craft and business in your writing life? Suzy K Quinn answers these questions and more in this fascinating interview. In the intro, entrepreneur and author Derek Sivers sells $250K worth of ebooks and audiobooks direct from his website […]
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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. |
| 0:17.3 | 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. |
| 0:30.9 | Hello creatives, I'm Joanna Penn, and this is episode number 501 of the podcast, and it is Friday the 7th of August 2020 as I record |
| 0:40.7 | this. So today I'm talking to Susie K. Quinn about how to write a bestseller, and I took her |
| 0:47.2 | course of the same name through Mark Dawson's self-publishing formula and found it fascinating. |
| 0:52.9 | I highly recommend the course as it goes into a lot of |
| 0:55.3 | detail, but in this interview we talk about writing a marketing plan before writing a book, |
| 1:01.1 | packaging and positioning, supply and demand and much more. So it's a kind of business angle |
| 1:06.6 | on a craft topic and the course does go into a lot more detail and I should say up front I'm not |
| 1:13.2 | an affiliate of the course I just found it really useful so I wanted to talk to Susie and for |
| 1:18.1 | context on parts of our discussion we recorded this a few months back in the earlier days of the |
| 1:23.8 | pandemic so thanks for all your wonderful emails and tweets and comments on episode 500. |
| 1:33.0 | It seems like it resonated with a lot of you. |
| 1:35.8 | And I had so many responses and emails and tweets and comments and Patreon things. |
| 1:41.3 | And so I'm not going to read any out because I feel like I would miss out on people. |
| 1:46.4 | So I've been emailing people back and responding and I'm just so happy that it resonated and |
| 1:52.3 | that many of you found it useful. And it is so funny looking back. I'm glad I marked the |
| 1:56.3 | occasion because it does feel like a big milestone and it was a lot of work but I'm really glad I did it |
| 2:02.5 | and I think I'll look back on that with interest and in terms of my other work I'm still doing |
| 2:08.7 | a load of clean-up on my fiction books redoing backmatters updating all kinds of things and it's a lot |
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