Welcome to the Creative Pen podcast.

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 Pen with a

double N. And here's the show. Hello creatives. I'm Joanna Penn. And this is episode number

761 of the podcast. And it is Saturday the 13th of July 24 as I record this. So first up, my voice is a little strange as I am on

the tail end of COVID, which is going around right now here in the UK. And for the first time in

ages, I debated whether I should just use an AI voice clone, which of course are very good.

But I am doubling down on being human instead because humans get COVID, not AI clones.

And yeah, just that the show must go on as such.

No, seriously, it's been a week now I've had it and I'm definitely getting much better.

Now, luckily, I recorded this interview a few weeks ago.

So in today's show, I'm talking to Kimbu York about intuitive discovery writing and serial

fiction.

We talk about leaning into your intuition and curiosity, trusting the creative process,

different methods for discovery writing, the joy of synchronicity, or the penny drop moment,

as well as business models for multi-passionate authors, serial fiction, fan fiction and more.

So that's coming up in the interview section. So in publishing things,

Book Vault now has integration with Payhip. So if you want to sell direct but you don't want to go

as far as Shopify or WooCommerce, then you can start with Payhip, which takes away a lot of

the e-commerce pain for you,

as they, for example, they handle EU Digital VAT. So it's a good place to start if you want to

sell direct, but you don't want to go into the full e-commerce store experience. And I used

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