Welcome to the Creative Pen podcast. I'm Joanna Penn, thriller author and creative entrepreneur,

bringing you interviews, inspiration and information on writing, publishing options and marketing ideas for your book.

You can find the episode show notes, your free author blueprint and lots more information at

TheCreativepen.com.

And that's Penn with a double N.

And here's the show.

Hello, creatives.

I'm Joanna Penn.

And this is episode number 560 of the podcast.

And it is Friday the 25th of June 2021, as I record this.

Yes, the end of the sixth month, we are halfway through the year. Just a reminder to revisit

your creative goals and get cracking for the second half. And I'm talking to myself, obviously.

In today's show, I'm talking about writing humor with Scott Dickers,

co-founder of The Onion, an author of books like How to Write Funny and How to Write Funny Characters

and more. We talk about writing humor, but we also talk about Scott's career and the things

he had to do to make comedy work out for the long term, as well as the mistakes he made,

particularly a big one around signing a contract, which we always like to talk about on the show,

as well as the importance of multiple streams of income. So it's definitely a mindset and

business episode as well as craft. So that is coming up in the interview section.

In publishing news, Draftor Digital announces distribution to Borrowbox. Boroughbox is an app that

provides library patrons in Australia, Ireland, New Zealand and the UK with access to an ever-growing

collection of e-books. The service is owned by Belinda,

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