How Writing Work For Hire Books Led To Becoming An Indie Author With Aubre Andrus

The Creative Penn Podcast For Writers

Joanna Penn

Self-improvement, Arts, Books, Entrepreneurship, Business, Education

4.8 • 745 Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2024

⏱️ 69 minutes

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How can you blend ‘work for hire', ghostwriting, and being an indie author into a successful hybrid career writing books for children? Aubre Andrus gives her tips. In the intro, Countdown Pages on FindawayVoices by Spotify; the impact of AI narrated audiobooks on Audible [Bloomberg]; Ideas for short fiction anthologies and Kevin J. Anderson's Kickstarter; […]

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Creative Pen podcast. I'm Joanna Penn, thriller author and creative entrepreneur,
0:08.0	bringing you interviews, inspiration and information on writing craft and creative business.
0:14.7	You can find the episode show notes, your free author blueprint, and lots more at thecreativepen.com. And that's Pen with a
0:23.7	double N. And here's the show. Hello creatives. I'm Joanna Penn. And this is episode number
0:30.4	750 of the podcast. And it is Friday the 10th of May, 24 as I record this.
0:41.1	First up, yes, this is a new theme tune.
0:42.2	We have a new one.
0:45.5	But don't worry, it's still me and it's still the same show.
0:49.4	I'll explain more about that in the personal section coming up.
0:56.1	In the interview today, I'm talking with Aubrey Andrus about how writing work for hire books led to her becoming an indie author. It is definitely a different take on a hybrid author career,
1:02.5	and we discuss various aspects of intellectual property, the pros and cons of work for hire,
1:07.9	how to find this kind of work if you want it, as well as how Aubrey wrote
1:11.8	and published her own children's book series as an indie author, how she markets it and more.
1:17.9	So that's coming up in the interview section.
1:24.3	In Publishing Industry News, a useful new feature from findaway voices by spotify which has introduced countdown pages build hype for your upcoming release and spotify will notify fans when it's available set your street date at least two weeks in advance although we recommend six weeks to drive drive pre-saves of your title, submit the title
1:46.2	through Findaway, then share your countdown page with fans. So this is not a pre-order, but it is a
1:52.2	pre-save. And if you are an audiobook listener on Spotify, as I increasingly am these days,
1:58.2	you will understand what this means. So essentially I do save a lot of
2:02.1	audiobooks into my queue and that's what that pre-save is. And it also helps the algorithm find
2:08.4	more that I like. So I think this is a great new feature as a listener to audiobooks, podcasts and
2:15.8	music on Spotify.
2:19.7	And yeah, so I think that's very cool.
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