You can make a living with your writing if you change your mindset and educate yourself around the business as well as the craft of being a writer. In today's show, I discuss multiple streams of income with Jane Friedman.
In the intro, I get excited about How to Write Non-Fiction, as I have just finished the first draft. Always a satisfying moment! I'll have it up for pre-order soon.
I also mention Great on Kindle, the new non-fiction invite-only program that provides 50% royalty and allows for higher priced books and no delivery charge; Google's new text-to-speech AI, which is indistinguishable from humans [BoingBoing], and Seth's Godin's Akimbo podcast on quality and wabi-sabi: the acceptance of imperfection and transience. Plus, early bird pricing on the BookBaby Indie Author conference in Philadelphia in Nov 2018 where I'll be speaking.
Today's show is sponsored by IngramSpark, who I use to print and distribute my print-on-demand books to 39,000 retailers including independent bookstores, schools and universities, libraries and more. It's your content – do more with it through IngramSpark.com.
Jane Friedman has 20 years of experience in the publishing industry and is a professor at the University of Virginia. She's the Co-founder and Editor of The Hot Sheet, the essential publishing industry newsletters for authors. The former publisher of Writer's Digest and she maintains an award-winning fantastic blog for writers at janefriedman.com. Her latest book is The Business of Being a Writer.
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Show Notes

* Jane's tweet that Joanna refers to can be found here

* Being strategic about where authors want their money to come from

* On the backlash from authors re: thinking about business

* On multiple streams of income for authors

* The part that blogging plays in Jane's business

* Thoughts on Facebook, big data, and changes at Twitter

You can find Jane Friedman at JaneFriedman.com and on Twitter @janefriedman

Transcript of Interview with Jane Friedman
Joanna: Hi, everyone. I'm Joanna Penn from TheCreativePenn.com. And today, I'm back with Jane Friedman. Hi, Jane.
Jane: Hello, Joanna. Great to be here.
Joanna: It's great to have you back on the show. I think it's number four over the last, like,