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I'm Joanna Penn, thriller author and creative entrepreneur, bringing you interviews, inspiration and information on writing craft and creative business.

You can find the episode show notes, your free author blueprint and lots more 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 754 of the podcast, and it is Friday the 31st

of May, 24, as I record this.

In today's show, I'm doing a solo in-between episode on seven tips for writing action-adventure thrillers. What are the tropes of action

adventure? How can you please readers and sell more books? I share my tips and also share

excerpts from interviews with other thriller writers I've had on

the show over the years. I've enjoyed putting this together with the various voices,

revisiting old episodes with thriller writer friends. And the show notes include a transcript

and links to the original episodes all from the backlist. And because some of them are

actually pretty old, even though I mean the writing craft all from the backlist. And because some of them are actually pretty old,

even though, I mean, the writing craft stuff stands the test of time. But you might actually have

to download those if you want to listen to the whole episode because podcast feeds don't

necessarily have 700 episodes in the feed. So you can always find the backlist at TheCreativepen.com

forward slash podcast. And you can just, there's also a search bar as well.

And today's show is sponsored by my new thriller, Spear of Destiny. Out now on Kickstarter.

A desperate quest, a holy relic, a race against time. You can find out more at jfpen.com

forward slash destiny. Right, let's get into the tips.

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