Publishing A Cookery Photo Book With Jane Dixon-Smith
The Creative Penn Podcast For Writers
Joanna Penn
4.8 • 745 Ratings
🗓️ 4 December 2023
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Do you want to publish an image-heavy book like a cookbook? How can you navigate the challenges of photography, book design, and publishing choices to make the best product possible? Jane Dixon-Smith shares her lessons learned from her first cookbook. In the intro, Brandon Sanderson's predictions about publishing [Daniel Greene]; Craig Mod talks about walking […]
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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. |
| 0:25.5 | And that's Penn with a double N. |
| 0:27.7 | And here's the show. |
| 0:31.1 | Hello, creatives. |
| 0:32.7 | I'm Joanna Penn. |
| 0:34.0 | And this is episode number 726 of the podcast. |
| 0:37.4 | And it is Saturday, the 2nd of December, |
| 0:40.3 | 23, as I record this. And it really is countdown to the end of the year now. It's crazy. |
| 0:47.5 | So in today's show, I'm talking to Jane Dixon Smith about creating a cookbook. And the challenges of creating a photo-heavy book |
| 0:57.2 | from the choice of recipes in personalisation to the photography, editing, design decisions, |
| 1:03.3 | the paper choice, which is really important. |
| 1:05.9 | Plus, Jane is my cover designer and my book interior designer. |
| 1:10.1 | So towards the end, she gives her opinion on the |
| 1:12.8 | use of AI images. So that's coming up in the interview section. So in publishing and book |
| 1:22.8 | marketing things. Well, thanks to my friend Andre, who sent me a link to Brandon Sanderson talking about his |
| 1:29.7 | predictions about publishing for 2024 on the Daniel Green YouTube channel. Now, I rarely watch |
| 1:36.6 | videos, but I watched this one and took some notes for you. It is a conversation. I absolutely |
| 1:42.6 | respect Brandon Sanderson as someone who is very well connected, |
| 1:46.0 | knows a lot about traditional publishing and now indie publishing. It is definitely worth a listen. |
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