Writing Action Adventure And Traveling For Book Research With Luke Richardson
The Creative Penn Podcast For Writers
Joanna Penn
4.8 • 745 Ratings
🗓️ 3 March 2025
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
What are the tropes and reader expectations for action adventure thrillers? Why publish into KU and what are some of the ways to market there? How can travel enrich your writing? Luke Richardson gives his tips.
In the intro, ProWritingAid launches their Manuscript Analysis tool; Navigating legal risk in memoir [The Indy Author]; Social media for authors in 2025 [BookBub]; Amazon relaunches Alexa, now Alexa+ which is now powered by Claude AI; Scribe, the world’s most accurate transcription model [ElevenLabs]; ElevenReader Publishing to the Reader app; Death Valley, A Thriller by J.F. Penn.
Today's show is sponsored by ProWritingAid, writing and editing software that goes way beyond just grammar and typo checking. With its detailed reports on how to improve your writing and integration with writing software, ProWritingAid will help you improve your book before you send it to an editor, agent or publisher. Check it out for free or get 15% off the premium edition at www.ProWritingAid.com/joanna
This show is also supported by my Patrons. Join my Community at Patreon.com/thecreativepenn
Luke Richardson is the bestselling author of the Eden Black Archaeological Thrillers and the International Detective thriller series.
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Show Notes
* Taking the leap into full-time indie authorship
* Reasons for unpublishing books and maintaining your author brand
* Researching the tropes and market of your genre
* The purpose of a prologue and when to include one
* Tips for writing characters that are unlike yourself
* Turning travels into stories
* Why publish in KU instead of wide?
* Selling non-book items or experiences
You can find Luke at LukeRichardsonAuthor.com and his new podcast at AdventureS...
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. |
| 0:14.7 | 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 |
| 0:30.3 | 797 of the podcast. And it is Saturday, the 1st of March, 2025, as I record this, the first day of spring. |
| 0:39.5 | In today's show, I'm talking about writing, action, adventure and travelling for book research |
| 0:44.8 | with Luke Richardson. |
| 0:46.7 | We cover author branding, tropes, why we both love a prolog, writing characters different |
| 0:52.3 | to you, why we love travelling for research publishing in |
| 0:56.1 | kindle unlimited book marketing writing authors notes and more so that's coming up in the interview section |
| 1:03.3 | in writing and publishing things so first up prowriting aid has launched their manuscript analysis tool. |
| 1:14.7 | So I've tested this and it is super useful. It's basically a developmental editing report. |
| 1:19.9 | At the moment it is fiction, but they have mentioned, maybe there'll be a non-fiction later. |
| 1:24.1 | For the first time, you can get an analysis of the whole book. It dives deep into your story, |
| 1:29.2 | structure, plot, pacing, characterization and more, giving you clear, prioritised insights to strengthen |
| 1:35.1 | your novel. So I did a demo of this. I'm with Chris from Pro Writing Aid with my Patreon last |
| 1:40.9 | month, and everyone was really keen to try it. So I'm really glad it's out now. And in my mind, |
| 1:46.4 | it is a cost-effective way to get a developmental edit on your novel. So you can improve things |
| 1:52.4 | before sending to a human editor. Because I really think with developmental editing, sometimes |
| 1:58.4 | you need more than one pass, especially if you're |
| 2:01.3 | newer to the writing process. And there's only so much that can be done on each pass. So I think |
| 2:07.3 | using this type of thing, and this is how I use pro-writing aid anyway, is using it before |
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