Lessons Learned From 3 Years As A Full-Time Author with Sacha Black
The Creative Penn Podcast For Writers
Joanna Penn
4.8 • 745 Ratings
🗓️ 1 August 2022
⏱️ 56 minutes
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What do you need to consider if you want to go full time as an author entrepreneur? What challenges might you face in your first few years? Sacha Black shared her lessons learned from 3 years full-time. In the intro, PRH and S&S merger heads to trial [Publishers Weekly]; Pilgrimage episodes on my Books and […]
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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. |
| 0:30.8 | Hello creatives. I'm Joanna Penn. And this is episode number 638 of the podcast. and it is Friday the 29th of July 22, |
| 0:40.1 | as I record this. |
| 0:41.8 | In today's show, I'm talking to Sasha Black about lessons learned from three years as a full-time author. |
| 0:48.0 | We discuss what to have in place before making the jump, building confidence and multiple streams of income, |
| 0:54.1 | as well as learning to say no, |
| 0:56.1 | which I still struggle with. Self-care, authentic branding and how you can discover your voice over |
| 1:02.1 | time, as well as how to be a better publisher. So Sasha also has a new book out this week, |
| 1:07.5 | The Anatomy of a Bestseller, Three Steps to Deconstruct Winning Books and Teach |
| 1:11.9 | Yourself Craft. And yeah, we talk about lots of this coming up in the interview section. |
| 1:19.7 | So in publishing news, publishers weekly reports this week, the US Department of Justice's |
| 1:26.5 | bid to block Penguin Random House's acquisition |
| 1:29.2 | of rival Big Five publisher Simon & Schuster is ready for court. The arguments are due to begin on |
| 1:36.2 | August 1st, which is when this goes out. Publishers Weekly says the closely watched case |
| 1:42.4 | holds major implications for a publishing industry |
| 1:45.2 | that has been grappling with consolidation for years and looms as a key test for the government |
| 1:50.6 | amid growing calls for a more vigilant antitrust enforcement. So it says, basically, if allowed to |
| 1:57.4 | acquire Simon & Schuster, PRH would be by far the largest book publisher in the United |
| 2:01.9 | States towering over its rivals, with revenues more than double its next closest competitor. |
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