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Hello, creatives.

I'm Joanna Penn.

And this is episode number 534 of the podcast.

And it is Saturday, the 20th of February 2021 as I record this

in a really rainy day here in lockdown 3 in England. So in today's show I'm talking to Sarah

Rosette about how to structure and write a series. Definitely one of the important aspects of making a living with your writing,

regardless of genre. And a tent pole series, whether it's fiction or nonfiction, can keep

paying the bills over time. And we talk about tips, whether you are a plotter or a pancer.

And I talk about some of my issues with series, some of the pros and cons and difficulties.

And so it is primarily for fiction series, but again, writing a series is a good thing, regardless of genre.

So that is coming up in the interview.

In publishing news this week, I guess this is publishing book marketing media, Facebook,

after months of threats and failed attempts to lobby the government over proposed new media laws,

Facebook banned the sharing of news in Australia, as reported by The Guardian and tons of other places.

So basically, Australia woke up and all the news producers had been blocked.

But so the main national broadcast ABC was down, the Guardian Australia was down and a whole load of other things were down.

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