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Hello, creatives.

I'm Joanna Penn.

And this is episode number 668 of the podcast podcast and it is Sunday the 15th of January

2023 as I record this. In today's show I'm talking to Becker Syme about intuitive writing.

Do you sometimes just know when a story is right? Does something click during the writing process and suddenly things make

sense? Do you lean into your curiosity and emotion when it comes to writing and marketing?

If yes, you might be an intuitive writer and you can also use this for marketing. So I always

love talking to Becca, so I hope you enjoy the interview,

and that is coming up in the interview section.

So in publishing and book marketing news,

there is a great interview on the Decoder podcast with Corrie Doctoro and Rebecca Giblin,

who has been on the show, about their new book, Choke Point Capitalism, which is all about how big tech companies are throttling creatives

and some of the practices that are, yeah, just not great for us, and how we can break free of those

shackles and try to improve things. So they mention Aiblegate, hash Audiblegate and some of those issues

and also some of the problems in the music industry as well as publishing

that lock creators in to bad contracts, basically.

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