Writing A Bestseller With A.G. Riddle
The Creative Penn Podcast For Writers
Joanna Penn
4.8 • 745 Ratings
🗓️ 25 July 2022
⏱️ 56 minutes
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How can you lean into your strengths as a writer to find the genre — and the business model — that suits you best? A.G. Riddle talks about his writing process, his publishing choices, and how he's planning to pivot into the next phase of his career. In the intro, I talk about my experience […]
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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. |
| 0:17.3 | 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. |
| 0:31.2 | Hello, creatives. |
| 0:32.7 | I'm Joanna Penn. |
| 0:33.9 | And this is episode number 636 of the podcast. |
| 0:40.5 | And it is in fact Monday the 25th of July, |
| 0:46.3 | 2022, as I record this, just before putting it out, really last minute this morning. |
| 0:52.2 | In today's show, I'm talking about writing a bestseller with A.G. Riddle, who writes sci-fi thrillers that have sold millions of books and brought |
| 0:56.0 | Jerry multiple publishing deals as well as film and TV options. Jerry started out Indy and we met at |
| 1:03.8 | Frankfurt in 2014 and I've included a picture in the show notes and he is now a hybrid author |
| 1:10.1 | and he has some really interesting thoughts on |
| 1:13.3 | what he is willing to give up in order to have more time to write. I found it a thought-provoking |
| 1:18.9 | interview indeed about the deeper questions of a writing career. So I think you'll enjoy it. |
| 1:24.7 | And that's coming up in the interview section. |
| 1:34.7 | So I'm going to jump straight into my personal update this week. I have been in Harrogate this week for the Fakeson's Old Peculiar Crime Writing Festival, which is one of the biggest |
| 1:40.5 | crime writing festivals in the UK, probably in Europe, and Thaxton's |
| 1:44.6 | old peculiar is a beer, if you were wondering. So there's a lot of drinking and talking about |
| 1:49.6 | crime writing. It is a traditional publishing event, so full of big name authors, agents, |
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