The Midlist Indie Author With T. Thorn Coyle
The Creative Penn Podcast For Writers
Joanna Penn
4.8 • 745 Ratings
🗓️ 22 April 2024
⏱️ 57 minutes
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How can you build a creative, sustainable career as a ‘mid-list' indie author? How can you design a business that works for you and your books over the long term? T. Thorn Coyle explains more in this episode. In the intro, BookVault bespoke printing options; Harper Collins partners with Eleven Labs for AI-narrated non-English audiobooks […]
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Creative Pen podcast. I'm Joanna Penn, thriller author and creative entrepreneur, |
| 0:08.9 | bringing you interviews, inspiration and information on writing, publishing options and marketing ideas for your book. |
| 0:17.0 | You can find the episode show notes, your free author blueprint and lots more information at |
| 0:23.0 | TheCreativepen.com. And that's Penn with a double N. And here's the show. |
| 0:31.0 | Hello, creatives. I'm Joanna Penn. And this is episode 747 of the podcast, and it is Saturday the 20th of April, 2024, as I record this. |
| 0:42.6 | In today's show, I have a discussion about the mid-list indie author with T-thorn Coil, |
| 0:49.0 | where we discuss creative and business practices for those of us who make a decent or even a very good living |
| 0:55.0 | without being super famous or a seven-figure author outlier. So that's coming up in the interview |
| 1:01.9 | section. So in publishing industry news, excitingly, Book Vault have launched bespoke publishing options in their dashboard. |
| 1:13.3 | So now you can order gorgeous books with all kinds of extras, ribbons, custom foiling, custom |
| 1:18.7 | endpapers, head and tail bands, new thicker paper stock and more. So I'll be using these options |
| 1:24.9 | to the full for my next Kickstarter for Spare of Destiny, |
| 1:28.0 | but you can also use them to do print on demand, all printed in the UK and shipped from here. |
| 1:34.1 | You can find out more at bookfault.com, but I'll link to this in the show notes as well. |
| 1:38.3 | And of course, my writing The Shadow and Sasha Black Ruby Rose's latest book as well used as examples. |
| 1:46.6 | Very proud of those. |
| 1:49.5 | Now, crossing over publishing into AI, Harper Collins partners with 11 labs for non-English |
| 1:57.3 | audiobooks, as reported by publishing perspectives. From the article, the agreement will lead to the |
| 2:04.7 | production of audio versions of select deep backlist series books that would not otherwise have been |
| 2:12.0 | created. Without AI, there simply wouldn't be the time or resources to make this happen. |
| 2:18.2 | And this is the reality with audio. And of course, there's all kinds of upbraw about this in |
| 2:23.4 | various places. But the fact is, most books are not in audio, full stop. And most books that are |
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