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It’s episode 500! Time flies indeed. The first episode of The Creative Penn Podcast was released on 15 March 2009. I had a couple of non-fiction books out, the international Kindle had not even launched, and there was no empowered indie author movement as we know it today. I was living in Ipswich, just outside […]
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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, and that's Pen with a double N. And here's the show. |
0:30.9 | Hello, creatives. I'm Joanna Penn. And this is episode 500 of the Creative Pen podcast, which is very exciting, and I'm recording this in the final week of July 2020. |
0:44.9 | So the title of today's show, I'm not doing any news or anything, I'm just doing the episode 500. |
0:51.6 | And so the title is writing and business lessons learned from 500 episodes and 11 years |
0:57.7 | of the Creative Pen podcast. I never thought I would do this for 11 years. It's very weird. |
1:03.5 | Time flies indeed. So the first episode of the Creative Pen podcast was released on 15th of March 2009. So I had a couple of non-fiction |
1:14.2 | books out. The International Kindle had not even launched. There was no empowered indie author |
1:20.2 | movement, as we know it today. I was living in Ipswich, just outside Brisbane, Australia, |
1:25.6 | and I worked as an IT consultant implementing SAP Financials, |
1:30.4 | which is like a software package, at a large mining company. How things have changed. |
1:37.4 | So I'm now a full-time author and podcaster with over 30 books, fiction and non-fiction. |
1:42.5 | I live in Bath, UK, and I'm part of a growing |
1:46.2 | independent author scene full of empowered Indies. And we have more opportunities than ever before |
1:52.4 | and it truly is the best time to be an author. I should say I also got married in August 2008. |
2:00.4 | So Jonathan and I are coming up to 12 years of marriage. So happy to |
2:05.5 | say that hasn't changed. That has remained the same. So in this episode, I'm going to share some |
2:12.1 | of the biggest lessons I've learned over the last 11 years and include clips from podcast episodes that have helped me and might help |
2:19.7 | you on your own author journey. Some are craft and some are business. And basically I just wanted |
2:25.2 | to share some words from people. Obviously this is why it's taken so long to prepare this |
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