Starting A Second Career As An Author And Networking Tips With Patrick O’Donnell
The Creative Penn Podcast For Writers
Joanna Penn
4.8 • 745 Ratings
🗓️ 20 November 2023
⏱️ 63 minutes
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How can you transition into being an author after a long-term career elsewhere? How can you adopt an attitude of service in order to build your network in an authentic manner? Patrick O'Donnell shares his tips. In the intro, Spotify subscribers in the US now have 15 hours of free audiobook listening [The Verge] — […]
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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. |
| 0:30.9 | Hello, creatives. |
| 0:32.4 | I'm Joanna Penn. |
| 0:33.6 | And this is episode number 724 of the podcast. |
| 0:39.9 | And it is Saturday the 18th of November 2023 as I record this. In today's show, I'm talking about starting a second career as an author, |
| 0:48.4 | an attitude of service first and networking tips with Patrick O'Donnell, who was a police officer and is now an author |
| 0:56.4 | and a podcaster. So that's coming up in the interview section. So in publishing news, |
| 1:05.3 | Spotify subscribers in the USA can now access 15 hours of free audiobooks as part of their subscription. |
| 1:12.6 | And I've had this for, I guess, a month now here in the UK. |
| 1:16.0 | And yes, you can get all my audiobooks as Joanna Penn and most of them as J.F. Penn, |
| 1:21.7 | including books like Pilgrimage, How to Write a Novel, Your Offa Business Plan, the Mapwalker |
| 1:26.6 | trilogy and more. |
| 1:28.7 | So you can check them out as part of your subscription. |
| 1:31.6 | And of course there are audiobooks by many other authors. |
| 1:34.4 | And in fact, this has changed my audiobook listening behaviour since this got rolled out to me. |
| 1:39.8 | I've been listening to podcasts in Spotify as well as music for years now, I guess. I moved over |
| 1:46.7 | after I saw them in Frankfurt years ago and was just so impressed by their AI algorithm |
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