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Hello, creatives.

I'm Joanna Penn.

And this is episode number 753 of the podcast.

And it is Friday the 31st of May, 24 as I record this.

In today's show, I'm talking about the seasons of writing and life with Jacqueline Suskin. We discuss fast and slow forms of creativity, improvisational

writing, how the different seasons manifest in our writing and energy, why you need to rest in order to create. How to

decide what goes into a collection of work, trusting emergence and much more. I really love this

discussion. So that's coming up in the interview section. In publishing things this week, the Always Take Notes podcast, which has some interesting

things with authors and in publishing, has an interview this week with a children's author,

who is also editorial director for picture books at Bloomsbury. Pari Thompson has insights into

the different terms and terminology used in

children's publishing and what words are used in the publishing industry for each age, how genre

has evolved for children's books, whether children drive book sales or whether it's parents,

grandparents, librarians, etc. working in publishing and more. So I know I don't

often mention children's book stuff because I don't write them myself. I have occasional

interviews on them, but I thought this particular interview was interesting at the intersection

of this person who's an author and in Bloomsbury Children's imprints. So very interesting there.

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