The Intuitive Author With Tiffany Yates Martin

The Creative Penn Podcast For Writers

Joanna Penn

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

4.8 • 745 Ratings

🗓️ 25 November 2024

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

How can you manage the competing priorities of an author career? How can you deal with the demons we all have to wrestle with along the way? Tiffany Yates Martin talks about the role of intuition in decision-making, the challenges of feedback and rejection, and the importance of reclaiming creativity during difficult times.

In the intro, Amazon Music Unlimited will now include a free audiobook a month [The Verge]; When to pivot or quit [Self-Publishing Advice]; Thoughts on sunk cost fallacy, and how do you know when things are ending? Are they spiraling up, or down?, Quit: The Power of Knowing When To Walk Away by Annie Duke.

Plus, HarperCollins AI licensing deal [The Verge; The Authors Guild]; and Seahenge is out everywhere, as well as at my store, JFPennBooks.com.

Today's show is sponsored by Draft2Digital, self-publishing with support, where you can get free formatting, free distribution to multiple stores, and a host of other benefits. Just go to www.draft2digital.com to get started.

This show is also supported by my Patrons. Join my Community at Patreon.com/thecreativepenn

Tiffany Yates Martin is an editor, speaker, and teacher with over 30 years in the publishing industry. She writes contemporary women's fiction as Phoebe Fox, and her latest non-fiction book is The Intuitive Author: How to Grow & Sustain a Happier Writing Career.

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Show Notes

* Overcoming the “writer demons”

* Setting priorities to help manage overwhelm

* Honing into your intuition in relation to your author career

* Distinguishing intuition from hype or peer pressure

* Defining goals that are within your control

* Staying resilient when dealing with feedback and rejection

* Reclaiming your creative spark in difficult times

You can find Tiffany Yates Martin at

Transcript

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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.
0:14.6	You can find the episode show notes, your free author blueprint, and lots more at the creative pen.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
0:30.2	782 of the podcast. And it is Sunday the 24th of November 24. As I record this, in the middle of a storm here in the UK if you hear
0:41.2	any windy noise. In today's show, I'm talking to Tiffany Yates Martin about managing the competing
0:48.5	priorities of an author career, the challenges of feedback and rejection, the role of intuition in decision-making and the importance
0:56.7	of reclaiming creativity during difficult times. It is a great discussion, so that's coming up in
1:03.1	the interview section. In writing and publishing things, starting with audiobooks, Amazon Music Unlimited will now include a free audio book per month, as reported in The Verge, as an attempt to match what Spotify is doing with their premium subscription.
1:24.8	But this is definitely not the same. So I have switched, I've mentioned before, I've
1:29.8	switched from Audible to Spotify for audiobooks. It is 15 hours of listening to audio with Spotify,
1:37.2	which can be across multiple audiobooks, which I actually really like because I will often dip
1:43.1	into different audio books. I listen to mostly
1:45.7	nonfiction, so I listen to chapters across multiple things. I can't be the only person doing that,
1:51.7	but this is really interesting because a few years ago people are like, oh, it's not going to
1:55.1	change things, but of course it is. For the new Amazon plan, individual subscribers and the primary account holder for
2:02.5	family plans can listen to one audiobook at a time of any length per month. So it's basically a credit.
2:10.4	If a user doesn't finish the audiobook in the month, they can continue listening to the same
2:15.0	audiobook the following month or choose a new title. As ever, I think
2:20.0	streaming and unlimited programs are more about marketing your audiobooks and your author brand.
2:27.4	I don't necessarily think of them as a revenue stream. Audio is definitely a better revenue stream
2:32.3	if you're selling it direct because as we know, with the rise and rise of digital audio and all of these unlimited streaming things,
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