Creativity, Business, And Ambition With Emily Kimelman

How can you juggle full-time writing and a family? How can you manage ambition about adventure and travel with a desire to be a 7-figure author? How can you be both creative and a business-person? I talk about all this and more in today's wide-ranging interview with Emily Kimelman.

26:25 - Interview starts

In the introduction, The Authors Guild, the Association of American Publishers, and the American Booksellers Association wrote to the US Senate anti-trust committee to comment on the concentrated power and influence of Amazon [Publishers Lunch]; Powell's bookstore announces they will no longer sell their books on Amazon’s marketplace [Business Insider].

My thoughts on how our comfort zones have shrunk during the pandemic and my plans to start expanding my own comfort zone again. Book research on Victorian London — David Morrell on my Books and Travel Podcast. Plus, get 50% off all my ebooks and many of my audiobooks if you buy direct from my Payhip store – http://www.payhip.com/thecreativepenn for non-fiction and fiction, including boxsets. Use coupon code: SEPT20 at checkout.

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. https://www.kobo.com/writinglife

Emily Kimelman is the author of the Sydney Rye Mystery series, and also writes fantasy under Emily Reed.

The challenges and silver lining of being a dyslexic writer
Travel as part of an author’s life
Writing while traveling and going slowly to facilitate that
The blurred lines between fact and fiction
Keeping an author business going with two small children
Strategies for working toward a 7-figure year
Pros and cons of having two fiction pen names
You can find Emily Kimelman at http://www.EmilyKimelman.com

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