The Challenges Of A First Novel With James Blatch
The Creative Penn Podcast For Writers
Joanna Penn
4.8 • 745 Ratings
🗓️ 16 May 2021
⏱️ 74 minutes
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What are the challenges of writing a first novel — even when you think you know what you're doing? How do you define success when you are just starting out on the author journey? James Blatch talks about these questions and more. In the intro, thoughts from attending the Audio Publishers Association conference, and audiobooks […]
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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 thecreativepen.com. |
| 0:25.5 | And that's Penn with a double N. And here's the show. |
| 0:30.5 | Hello, creatives. I'm Joanna Penn. |
| 0:33.1 | And this is episode number 551 of the podcast. |
| 0:36.8 | And it is Friday the 14th of May, 2021, as I record this. |
| 0:41.6 | In today's show, I'm talking to James Blatch, who many of you will know from the self-publishing show and the self-publishing formula courses. |
| 0:49.8 | And we talk about the particular challenges of writing and publishing your first novel, even if you've been embedded in the indie author community for years. |
| 1:00.1 | And you should know what you're doing. In fact, in your brain, you think you do know what you're doing. And then in the process of actually doing it, you do still learn some lessons. And this is going to be inevitable in all of our author journeys. |
| 1:12.9 | You know, we can read all the books, do all the courses, but you still actually have to do it |
| 1:16.7 | in order to learn. And inevitably, some things go wrong, but that is part of life. And also, |
| 1:23.3 | we talk about what your definition of success can be, realistically, with a first self-published |
| 1:29.9 | novel and managing your time across multiple businesses. So that is coming up in the interview |
| 1:35.4 | segment. In publishing news, well, I attended the online audio publishers association |
| 1:43.5 | conference this week and I went to a couple of interesting sessions. |
| 1:48.0 | One or, and this is just a couple of the takeaways. |
| 1:50.7 | I like to go along to these industry events and hear what people are talking about. |
| 1:55.0 | There was a big discussion on the crossover between podcasts and audiobooks and how the lines are overlapping. |
| 2:03.5 | They are merging, in fact. |
| 2:05.7 | And there's also rising enthusiasm because what this is meaning is there is a monetisation model |
| 2:11.5 | around podcast apps now with subscription and also direct sales of audiobooks to customers through a basically like a private |
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