SPS 040: What I've Learned from Writing 10+ Books with Joanna Penn

Self Publishing School: How To Write A Book That Grows Your Impact, Income, And Business

Chandler Bolt, Founder of selfpublishing.com

Courses, How To Publish A Book, Self Publishing, Business, Books, Arts, How To Write A Book, Education, Book Marketing, Traditional Publishing, Book Publishing

4.8 • 651 Ratings

🗓️ 30 January 2018

⏱️ 50 minutes

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In this episode, we are joined by J.F. Penn, a bestselling thriller author, to explore the nuances between writing fiction and nonfiction. Our special guest, Joanna Penn, is a creative entrepreneur, podcaster, professional speaker, and avid traveler. She has achieved remarkable success in both fiction and nonfiction writing and is widely recognized as an expert in the publishing and self-publishing industry. Joanna shares her wealth of knowledge on various aspects of writing, including the si...

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Self Publishing School podcast. This is the podcast to listen to if you're an
0:07.7	aspiring writer or an author who wants to be more successful. On this show, you'll learn how to
0:13.1	write and launch a book successfully, all from the top authors and people just like you
0:17.8	who are doing it at the highest level. I'm your host, Chandler Bolt, the founder
0:22.0	of self-publishing school, the author of the book called Published and the CEO of Selfpublishing.com.
0:29.0	For free training on how to publish a book that sells 10,000 copies, go to selfpublishing.com
0:34.5	forward slash free training.
0:39.2	Hey, Chandler Bolt here and joining me today is Joanna Penn, aka JF. Penn.
0:45.5	Joanna is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of thrillers and of nonfiction.
0:52.5	She's a professional speaker and an award-winning entrepreneur.
0:55.6	Her site, the creative pin.com, is regularly voted one of the top 10 sites for writers.
1:01.2	On the fiction side of things, like I mentioned, she writes as JF. Penn and her books weave
1:06.2	together ancient artifacts, relics of power, international locations, an adventure at the edges of faith.
1:13.5	Joanna lives in Bath, England, and enjoys a nice G&T. And I'm just so excited to bring her in,
1:21.7	A, because she's one of my favorite people ever, she's hilarious, she's fun, and B, because she's been on both side of things,
1:29.8	right? She's got nonfiction and fiction experience. So there's a lot of fun conversations that we
1:34.9	can have there. And especially just the fact that she knows this fiction stuff so well,
1:40.8	which is just not my wheelhouse. And so I'm excited to have her just go deep on the fiction
1:46.7	side of things. So Joanna, great to have you here. Thanks for having me, Chandler. It's really good to talk
1:52.0	to you. Now, obviously, if people want to hear kind of more of your backstory, how you got started,
1:57.3	all those things, they can check out our last interview. I want to skip that and get straight into the good stuff.
2:01.6	So to start things off, explain to people a little bit, maybe who don't know, maybe they haven't written their first book,
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