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Hello, creatives. I'm Joanna Penn. And this is episode number 598 of the podcast, and it is Sunday the 16th of January, 2022, as I record this.

In today's show, I'm talking to Rishi Dasdhah about aspects of poetry, where ideas come from and how to shape them into a poem,

how the traditional publishing process works for poetry,

aspects of performance and marketing, and also how the poetry scene here in the UK has been

enlivened by poets of colour. There are lots of wonderful thoughts about creativity and creative

process in this interview, and I particularly enjoyed it as I was at

Oxford with Rishi in the 90s. We've kind of been Facebook friends, but we haven't really stayed in

touch. So it was great to catch up with him. So that's coming up in the interview section.

In publishing and book marketing news.

So the Alliance of Independent Authors blog at self-publishing advice.org has an

interesting article on what readers want in 2022.

It has loads of detail and some great graphics, so you can check it out, links in

the show notes as ever but a couple of

things i noticed so once again a big focus on print sales as they continue to grow so remember to

get your print on demand versions done this year but it also notes that ebook sales have stalled now

that doesn't mean to me certainly that ebook reading have stalled. Now, that doesn't mean to me, certainly, that e-book reading has

stalled. What it does seem to indicate is that subscription models are taking a bigger share,

and that might include things like Kindle Unlimited, things like Scribd, libraries, and also

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