Your Publishing Options With Rachael Herron
The Creative Penn Podcast For Writers
Joanna Penn
4.8 • 745 Ratings
🗓️ 17 July 2023
⏱️ 57 minutes
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What are the pros and cons of traditional publishing vs self-publishing? How can you combine multiple options for a more creatively satisfying — and profitable — author career? Rachael Herron gives her tips. In the intro, Power Thesaurus and editing tips for audio; How Writers Fail — Kris Rusch; Finishing energy; Sidekick for Shopify; Shadow […]
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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. |
| 0:31.2 | Hello, creatives. I'm Joanna Penn. And this is episode number 703 of the podcast, and it is Sunday the 16th of July |
| 0:39.8 | 2023 as I record this. In today's show, I'm talking to Rachel Heron, a friend of mine of many |
| 0:47.2 | years now, so we have a great chat. Many of you will know Rachel from her podcast, How Do You |
| 0:53.0 | Write, or her older podcast with |
| 0:55.5 | Jay Thorne, The Writer's Well. We talk about publishing options since Rachel has just sold her |
| 1:01.5 | latest novel to a big traditional publisher, but she's also indie with other books. She's got her |
| 1:06.8 | rights back on some older books, is planning a Kickstarter and has a Patreon for essays. |
| 1:12.5 | She uses pretty much every single publishing route. So we talk about that and more. |
| 1:18.0 | Coming up in the interview section. |
| 1:23.1 | So in publishing and book marketing news, well, not very much, to be honest. |
| 1:27.9 | And of course, while there are lots of legal challenges going on in the AI space, |
| 1:32.5 | development continues apace. |
| 1:34.1 | So I'm going to talk about a couple of different things, some useful things and my personal update. |
| 1:39.7 | So firstly, some useful things. |
| 1:42.2 | So I've been in the editing process for Catacomb, which is |
| 1:45.8 | standalone horror monster book coming soon, and my editor, Kristen Tate, recommended |
| 1:51.7 | powerthesaurus.org for enhanced word choice. Now, I always edit with a thesaurus open, but usually just thesaurus.com. |
| 2:02.6 | I usually just use that. And I love finding different words. But powerhesaurus.org is |
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