Pivoting Genres And Writing Historical Fiction With Anna Sayburn Lane
The Creative Penn Podcast For Writers
Joanna Penn
4.8 • 745 Ratings
🗓️ 29 July 2024
⏱️ 62 minutes
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When is it time to leave an unsuccessful series behind and pivot into something new? What is the process of writing to market? Anna Sayburn Lane explores these topics and more. In the intro, help with Amazon KDP Account suspension [Kindlepreneur]; Selling direct to the EU? Thresholds coming in 2025; Some honest thoughts about the […]
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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 |
| 0:29.9 | 763 of the podcast, and it is Friday the 26th of July 24 as I record this. In today's show, I'm talking to Anna Saburn Lane about why |
| 0:41.2 | she decided to pivot genres after her first four books in a series failed to hit her financial |
| 0:47.3 | and career goals as an author. And how she then discovered 1920s mystery, researched it and now how she is writing and branding to market |
| 0:57.6 | and doing much better. So it is a really good discussion and that is coming up in the interview |
| 1:03.0 | section. In Publishing Things. Well, Kindlepreneur has a useful article on Amazon KDP account suspension. |
| 1:14.1 | A lot of common reasons why it happens, things like metadata violations, low quality content, |
| 1:20.7 | and manipulative practices, or at least their algorithm perceiving these things happened, |
| 1:26.7 | even if you didn't do anything, as well as |
| 1:29.1 | how to prevent suspensions and what to do if it does happen. So this is a super useful article. |
| 1:35.2 | I don't think you need to be scared about it if you are just being a normal author, but it is |
| 1:40.2 | something to look at and certainly if it happens, and it does happen to some people to whom it shouldn't happen. So have a look at that. That's on Kindlepreneur, links in the show notes. |
| 1:49.4 | Also, some very, very good news for people selling direct to European Union countries like me. |
| 1:57.2 | Since 2014 and I've been doing this since before 2014, and I remember when these came in, |
| 2:02.7 | when they put in the EU Digital VAT rules, which they put in with a zero threshold, which put |
| 2:10.0 | a lot of people out of business. Payhip started to deal with this, a lot of other places have |
| 2:15.3 | dealt with this, but what it meant is even if you sold one |
| 2:18.3 | e-book to France in a whole year, for example, or Germany or any of the other Netherlands, whatever, |
| 2:23.7 | you would have to pay that government some tax. And then those of us who did this, we got the one-stop |
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