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Hello creatives. I'm Joanna Penn. And this is episode number 639 of the podcast. And it is Saturday the 6th of August 22 as I record this.

In today's show, I'm talking to Morgana Best about her new book, Stop Making Others Rich,

how authors can make bank by selling direct, which is all about selling direct on Shopify,

and Morgana helped me with my Shopify store, which you can find at creative penbooks.com.

And now she has an amazing book full of information if you want to build your store too.

And she also has a course coming if that's how you prefer to learn.

So if you enjoy this episode, check out episode 628 with Katie

Cross, also on Selling Direct through Shopify, and I will have my own solo episode with lessons

learned coming later this week as an in-betweeny-sode. So the interview with Morgana is coming up in

the interview section.

So in publishing news, the Penguin Random House and Simon & Schuster merger trial goes on

as the US Department of Justice tries to stop the merger. Now this week, Stephen King testified as a witness for the

government, saying that the merger of two of the country's largest publishers would make it

harder for writers to earn a living, as reported by the New York Times. Stephen King, and this is my

comment, Stephen King has to be one of the only authors in the world who could testify against two of the biggest publishers and still be guaranteed a publishing deal.

It was funny.

I was thinking about it going, whoa, you know, really, there's a handful of authors who could do this.

And he is one of them.

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