Welcome to the Creative Pen podcast. I'm Joanna Penn, thriller author and creative entrepreneur,

bringing you interviews, inspiration and information on writing, publishing options and marketing ideas for your book.

You can find the episode show notes, your free author blueprint and lots more information 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 740 of the podcast, and it is Friday the 1st of March 2024 as I record this.

And yes, it is March.

Crazy how fast the time goes.

In today's show, I have an interview with Alex Smith from Book Vault about the various options for authors to print beautiful books, sell direct and make more

money with print. Now, I've been using Book Vault for a couple of years now. They fulfill orders

for my Shopify stores, creativepenbooks.com and JFpenbooks.com. They also fulfill my Kickstarter.

And we have done silken finish hardbacks with full

colour photos for pilgrimage and then gold foil with ribbon hardbacks for writing the shadow.

I also love their bundling, which is now self-service as well as their print quality and

their helpful customer service and their prices. Seriously, if you sell a lot of print books through

KDP Print and Ingram, take a look at how much more profit you can make when selling direct.

Also, there's an exciting new release coming from Book Vault soon, which we will be talking about

in the interview section. I am planning on doing some cool things

for the launch of Spear of Destiny

and once again I will be working with Alex and Curtis

and the team at Book Vault.

They also now have a printer in the USA

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