Writing Novels Inspired By Place With Tony Park
The Creative Penn Podcast For Writers
Joanna Penn
4.8 • 745 Ratings
🗓️ 22 May 2023
⏱️ 56 minutes
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How can we write about places that inspire us in an authentic way even when they are not our own country? Tony Park gives his tips for writing setting, and also outlines how his publishing experience has changed over the last two decades. In the intro, KDP printing costs are changing from 20 June; plus, […]
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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. |
| 0:25.5 | And that's Penn with a double N. |
| 0:27.7 | And here's the show. |
| 0:31.0 | Hello, creatives. |
| 0:32.5 | I'm Joanna Penn. |
| 0:33.9 | And this is episode number 694 of the podcast. |
| 0:37.4 | And it is Sunday the 21st of May, 2023, as I record this from Auckland, New Zealand. |
| 0:45.8 | So in today's show, I'm talking with Tony Park about writing novels inspired by place and also our interests, since Tony weaves his love of Africa and also |
| 0:57.0 | conservation into his thrillers without lecturing, which is the best way to tell a story with heart. |
| 1:04.0 | He also talks about how things have changed in his 20 years of publishing experience, |
| 1:09.0 | how he got some of his rights back, and the importance |
| 1:12.1 | of speaking to real people in real places as part of your book research. So that's coming up |
| 1:18.2 | in the interview section. So in publishing and book marketing news, well, the big news this |
| 1:26.4 | week is KDP sent an email saying that |
| 1:29.4 | KDP printing costs are changing from 20th of June, 2023. So take action and put your print prices up. |
| 1:38.8 | So this is actually good to do periodically anyway, but since the costs are going up, we need to review |
| 1:44.0 | our prices. As their email says, |
| 1:47.3 | an increase in the fixed cost for all paperback and hardcover books. So basically, these are the changes. |
| 1:53.6 | An increase in the fixed cost for paperback and hardcover books to cover the higher cost of |
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