Turn Your Author Failures, Setbacks, And Mistakes Into Success With Joanna Penn And Orna Ross
The Creative Penn Podcast For Writers
Joanna Penn
4.8 • 745 Ratings
🗓️ 25 January 2021
⏱️ 67 minutes
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We all experience failures, setbacks, and mistakes on the author journey — but if we learn from them, they can be the basis for our greatest success. In this episode, Orna Ross and Joanna Penn share their biggest mistakes, failures, and setbacks as well as lessons learned. This interview originally went out on the Ask […]
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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. And that's Pen with a double N. And here's the show. |
| 0:30.3 | Hello, creatives. I'm Joanna Penn. And this is episode number 529 of the podcast. And it is Sunday, |
| 0:40.9 | the 24th of January, January 2021 as I record this. |
| 0:47.0 | So in today's show, I am sharing a discussion between me and Orna Ross on our greatest failures, mistakes and setbacks on the author journey. This was first broadcast on the Ask |
| 0:52.9 | Ally podcast in December, but I wanted to share |
| 0:55.8 | it here to go out to you guys, as it will hopefully help you to hear about how we have had so many |
| 1:02.3 | epic fails and how they have turned into the seeds of success. And we do both get pretty personal |
| 1:08.9 | in this area and also to hopefully help you avoid many of |
| 1:13.3 | these mistakes and save you time and money on your author journey. And in the show notes, I have |
| 1:19.0 | some pictures which are hilarious like a picture of May 20 years ago when I was running a scuba diving |
| 1:25.9 | company in New Zealand with blonde hair. Yes, I did |
| 1:29.4 | have bleach blonde hair for a while back there. So yes, we talk about some super epic fails, |
| 1:34.8 | common mistakes in the author industry. So that is coming up. In publishing news, an interesting |
| 1:43.1 | blog post from Ilona Andrews, number one, New York Times bestselling author of urban fantasy. |
| 1:49.8 | If you're in urban fantasy, you're going to know Elona Andrews, really sort of top-selling author. |
| 1:55.7 | And actually, the pen name of a husband and wife writing team, which I didn't know until I looked at this blog post. |
| 2:02.1 | So in this article, they go through some of the reasons why they are choosing the hybrid |
| 2:07.2 | publishing route over traditional deals. And it's really good because I am not a New York Times |
| 2:12.8 | number one. I mean, as in they got to number one on the New York Times list. And they are, they sell a lot |
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