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Hello, creatives.

I'm Joanna Penn, and this is episode number 539 of the podcast, and it is Saturday the 13th of March 2021 as I record this.

So in today's show, I'm talking to Tara Kremlin from Cobo Writing Life about how to be

successful publishing on Cobo, and we talk about international publishing, pricing, going

wide, book marketing tips on Kobo and more.

So that is coming up in the interview.

In publishing news, just a couple of things, Mark Dawson and the SPF team have launched

HelloBooks.com, a new ebook promotion service, which you can go sign up for now.

And this is in the same vein as

BookBub and Free Booksy and Bargain Booksy and basically a paid email newsletter blast service

for readers in specific genres. And of course, it is in all of our interests to grow these

kind of marketing opportunities. Most of us base our regular book promotional stuff around these types of

services. So definitely check it out at hellobooks.com. Also, last week I talked about Clubhouse,

the audio-only real-time social app, and I postulated that it wouldn't be that useful for us

internationally because it has to be live and there's

no ability to record and that's also part of its attraction because it can be sort of secret

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