Lessons Learned from 13 Years as an Author Entrepreneur
The Creative Penn Podcast For Writers
Joanna Penn
4.8 • 745 Ratings
🗓️ 13 September 2024
⏱️ 33 minutes
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In this solo episode, I talk about my lessons learned from 13 years as a full-time author entrepreneur. You can read/listen to previous updates at TheCreativePenn.com/timeline. Joanna Penn writes non-fiction for authors and is an award-winning, New York Times and USA Today bestselling thriller, dark fantasy, horror, crime, and memoir author as J.F. Penn. She’s also an […]
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Creative Pen podcast. |
| 0:03.7 | I'm Joanna Penn, thriller author and creative entrepreneur, 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 |
| 0:29.7 | 770 of the podcast. And it is Wednesday, the 11th of September, 24 as I record this. In today's show, I'm doing a solo in-between |
| 0:40.1 | sewed on my lessons learned from 13 years as an author entrepreneur. So I started writing |
| 0:47.9 | seriously for publication in 2007 and started the Creative Pen website in December 2008 and the podcast in March 2009, |
| 0:59.3 | but I actually left my job as an IT consultant in 2011 to make a living as a full-time |
| 1:06.0 | author entrepreneur. And thankfully, I have never gone back. So I've done these lessons learned episodes every year since, |
| 1:14.4 | and you can read or listen to previous updates at thecreativepen.com forward slash timeline. |
| 1:21.1 | So here's a brief intro in case you're new here, as I would normally do for my guests. |
| 1:26.8 | Joanna Penn writes nonfiction for authors |
| 1:29.2 | and is an award-winning New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of thrillers, dark fantasy, |
| 1:35.0 | horror, crime and memoir as J.F. Penn. She's also an award-winning podcaster, creative |
| 1:40.7 | entrepreneur and international professional speaker. So that is me. Now, my challenges change |
| 1:46.9 | and grow along with the business over the years and you will likely be at a different stage to me, |
| 1:52.7 | but I hope you find my lessons learned useful along your own author journey. Today's show is |
| 1:57.9 | sponsored by my community at patreon.com forward slash the creative pen. |
| 2:02.7 | Thanks to everyone who's been supporting for months and years and if you join the community, |
| 2:07.1 | you get access to all my backlist videos and audio covering topics on creativity and AI, mindset |
| 2:13.3 | and all the aspects of the business of being an author and my patron-only Q&A solo podcast episode. |
| 2:19.6 | So if you enjoy this solo show, you can get lots more at the Patreon. |
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