Writing Tips: The Anatomy Of Genres With John Truby
The Creative Penn Podcast For Writers
Joanna Penn
4.8 • 745 Ratings
🗓️ 28 November 2022
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
What is genre, and how can transcending it improve your fiction? How can you effectively write cross genre? John Truby gives an overview of the Anatomy of Genres. In the intro, the PRH acquisition of S&S is over [The Guardian]; Amazon Advertising Everywhere [Vox]; Spotify expands audiobooks to more markets [TechCrunch]; Plus, 20BooksVegas recordings; Machines […]
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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. And that's Penn with a double N. And here's the show. |
| 0:31.1 | Hello, creatives. I'm Joanna Penn. And this is episode number 658 of the podcast, and it is Friday the 25th of November |
| 0:40.1 | 2022 as I record this. So in today's show, I'm talking to John Truby about his new book, |
| 0:47.7 | The Anatomy of Genre, which is seriously excellent, and I really enjoyed our conversation. |
| 0:56.5 | John defines genre, then gives some examples around writing science fiction, although the tips are still relevant regardless of what |
| 1:01.8 | genre you write. Plus how to transcend genre, how to write successfully cross genre, which I'm |
| 1:08.6 | definitely interested in, and basically how to be more successful |
| 1:12.7 | with your stories. It is absolutely aimed at writing commercially, by which John means best-selling |
| 1:20.1 | and applicable to movies and TV. So that's coming up in the interview section. |
| 1:28.9 | In publishing and book marketing news, well, the Penguin Random House acquisition of Simon |
| 1:33.8 | and Schuster has fallen apart, as reported by The Guardian. |
| 1:38.1 | The acquisition was blocked on the 1st of November, which I mentioned, but there were |
| 1:41.9 | rumours of an appeal, which is now not happening. |
| 1:45.0 | But of course, Paramount, who owns Simon and Schuster, will still sell it. |
| 1:49.7 | They are quoted as saying it is a non-core asset. It is not video-based and therefore does not |
| 1:55.9 | fit strategically within Paramount's broader portfolio. So I find it so weird that everyone's saying, oh, amazing, |
| 2:04.1 | it's been blocked. But two other big publishers are probably next in line. Harper Collins and |
| 2:10.3 | the owner of Hachette are interested. So either it will be another publishing company or it will be |
| 2:16.0 | an investment firm. |
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