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How To Make A Living As An Author. Joanna Penn With Mark McGuinness
OLD POST ALERT! This is an older post and although you might find some useful tips, any technical or publishing information is likely to be out of date. Please click on Start Here on the menu bar above to find links to my most useful articles, videos and podcast. Thanks and happy writing! – Joanna PennToday's podcast features me as a guest, which makes a change! It's an in-depth interview ranging through my fiction writing and branding, to the aspects of making a living as a writer.
In the introduction, I talk about achievements of 2014, goals for 2015 and my take on the recent posts about falling income and what you can do about it.
I also mention the launch of my new book, Gates of Hell, available now on all ebook platforms. Plus speaking at the Pubsense Summit in Charleston, South Carolina in March if you'd like to come and say hi.
This podcast is sponsored by Kobo Writing Life, which helps authors self-publish and reach readers in global markets through the Kobo eco-system. You can also subscribe to the Kobo Writing Life podcast for interviews with successful indie authors.
Kobo’s financial support pays for the hosting and transcription, and if you enjoy the show, you can now support my time on Patreon. Thank you for your support!
This interview is a discussion between me and Mark McGuinness, poet, non-fiction author, creative coach, professional speaker and entrepreneur. You can watch it on YouTube here, or listen above or on the podcast feed here, on iTunes or Stitcher. Full transcript below.
How to make a living as an author. Mark McGuinness interviews Joanna Penn
Mark: Hello, everybody, welcome to LateralAction.com. This is Mark McGuinness, and I’m very pleased to welcome Joanna Penn. Hi, Jo, how are you doing?
Joanna: Hi, Mark, thanks so much for having me on!
Mark: Well, it’s a real pleasure. Many of you will know Joanna already, but for those of you who are new to her work, she leads a double life, firstly as J.F.Penn, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of, you call them ‘thrillers with an edge.’
Can you just explain what exactly they are? What kind of an edge is it?
Joanna: It was funny,