My Imaginary Friends with L. Penelope

Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVAYHjhD8hk Mentioned: * Freewrite writing machines [https://getfreewrite.com/] * My Freewrite reviews - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33u95y8_hYY&list=PLPWpOldzxmoFtoJMjg6iSUuxU1kDichvn [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33u95y8_hYY&list=PLPWpOldzxmoFtoJMjg6iSUuxU1kDichvn] * The device I couldn't remember in the podcast - BYOK (Bring Your Own Keyboard): https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/byok/byok-the-ultimate-distraction-free-writing-tool [https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/byok/byok-the-ultimate-distraction-free-writing-tool]. Now that I've watched the video, I've changed my mind and I'm actually going to get one. LOL, I'm a mess.   The My Imaginary Friends podcast is a behind the scenes look at the journey of a working author navigating traditional and self-publishing. Join fantasy and paranormal romance author L. Penelope as she shares insights on the writing life, creativity, inspiration, and this week's best thing. Subscribe and view show notes at: https://lpenelope.com/podcast [https://lpenelope.com/podcast] | Get the Footnotes newsletter & become an Imaginary Best Friend: https://myimaginaryfriends.net [https://myimaginaryfriends.net] Support the show: Website [https://www.lpenelope.com] | Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/leslyepenelope] | Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/authorlpenelope] Music credit: Say Good Night by Joakim Karud https://soundcloud.com/joakimkarud [https://soundcloud.com/joakimkarud] Creative Commons — Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported— CC BY-SA 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/] Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/SZkVShypKgM [https://youtu.be/SZkVShypKgM] Affiliate Disclosure: I may receive compensation for links to products on this site either directly or indirectly via affiliate links. Heartspell Media, LLC is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.com [http://Amazon.com].

Mentioned: * A Marriage of Undead Inconvenience by Stephanie Burgis - https://amzn.to/4dbeN3D [https://amzn.to/4dbeN3D] * Bookfly Design [https://www.bookflydesign.com/] covers  * Ink & Magic podcast - https://www.inkandmagic.net/ [https://www.inkandmagic.net/] * My Events - https://lpenelope.com/calendar/ [https://lpenelope.com/calendar/]   The My Imaginary Friends podcast is a behind the scenes look at the journey of a working author navigating traditional and self-publishing. Join fantasy and paranormal romance author L. Penelope as she shares insights on the writing life, creativity, inspiration, and this week's best thing. Subscribe and view show notes at: https://lpenelope.com/podcast [https://lpenelope.com/podcast] | Get the Footnotes newsletter & become an Imaginary Best Friend: https://myimaginaryfriends.net [https://myimaginaryfriends.net] Support the show: Website [https://www.lpenelope.com] | Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/leslyepenelope] | Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/authorlpenelope] Music credit: Say Good Night by Joakim Karud https://soundcloud.com/joakimkarud [https://soundcloud.com/joakimkarud] Creative Commons — Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported— CC BY-SA 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/] Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/SZkVShypKgM [https://youtu.be/SZkVShypKgM] Affiliate Disclosure: I may receive compensation for links to products on this site either directly or indirectly via affiliate links. Heartspell Media, LLC is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.com [http://Amazon.com].

Today, I speak with New York Times bestselling author Daniel José Older. Daniel has been nominated for the Kirkus Prize, The World Fantasy Award, the Locus, and the Mythopoeic Award among others and is a winner of the International Latino Book Award. He writes novels for teens and adults, as well a monthly comic book series, and is a lead story architect for Star Wars: The High Republic. He and his wife Brittany N. Williams also have a podcast called Inkbottle, where they talk about writing, creativity, and parenting. Find Daniel online at https://www.danieljoseolder.net/ [https://www.danieljoseolder.net/] and read his Substack newsletter at https://danieljosolder.substack.com [https://danieljosolder.substack.com]/. Subscribe and view show notes at: https://lpenelope.com/podcast [https://lpenelope.com/podcast] Get the Footnotes newsletter and become an Imaginary Best Friend: https://myimaginaryfriends.net [https://myimaginaryfriends.net] Support the show - https://paypal.me/heartspell  [https://paypal.me/heartspell]

Watch on YouTube: https://youtube.com/live/jp0EkiGHlQ0 [https://youtube.com/live/jp0EkiGHlQ0] Mentioned:  * Artist Morning - https://www.artistmorning.com/ [https://www.artistmorning.com/] * Story Seed Workbook - https://lpen.co/storyseed [https://lpen.co/storyseed] * Bookbub's 17 Authors on YouTube with Writing & Publishing Tips - https://insights.bookbub.com/authors-youtube-writing-publishing-tips/ [https://insights.bookbub.com/authors-youtube-writing-publishing-tips/] * My events calendar - https://lpenelope.com/calendar/ [https://lpenelope.com/calendar/] * Oliver Burkeman's The Imperfectionist: What would it mean to be done for the day? [https://ckarchive.com/b/xmuph6hrqdp04hrnppvnqc2le6lllbn] * "The Importance of Reaching a Point in Your Day when You Feel Finished" [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZeFLBj8ZS-s]   The My Imaginary Friends podcast is a behind the scenes look at the journey of a working author navigating traditional and self-publishing. Join fantasy and paranormal romance author L. Penelope as she shares insights on the writing life, creativity, inspiration, and this week's best thing. Subscribe and view show notes at: https://lpenelope.com/podcast [https://lpenelope.com/podcast] | Get the Footnotes newsletter & become an Imaginary Best Friend: https://myimaginaryfriends.net [https://myimaginaryfriends.net] Support the show: Website [https://www.lpenelope.com] | Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/leslyepenelope] | Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/authorlpenelope] Music credit: Say Good Night by Joakim Karud https://soundcloud.com/joakimkarud [https://soundcloud.com/joakimkarud] Creative Commons — Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported— CC BY-SA 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/] Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/SZkVShypKgM [https://youtu.be/SZkVShypKgM] Affiliate Disclosure: I may receive compensation for links to products on this site either directly or indirectly via affiliate links. Heartspell Media, LLC is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.com [http://Amazon.com].

“Imagining Success” is an interview series where I talk to authors who have achieved career milestones that others only dream about and ask them how they got there and where they go from here. Today, I speak with someone who is one of my personal influences, speculative fiction author Tananarive Due. Over her two decades in publishing, she has won an American Book Award, an NAACP Image Award, as well as British and World Fantasy Awards. Find her online at https://www.tananarivedue.com/ [https://www.tananarivedue.com/]. Her Life Writing Premium course is available at here [https://masteryplus.mykajabi.com/lifewriting-premium-sales-page]. Tananarive's latest novel is The Reformatory [https://bookshop.org/a/582/9781982188344]. One of my favorite novels of hers is My Soul to Keep [https://bookshop.org/a/582/9780061053665]. Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/HGsPrw37u7Q [https://youtu.be/HGsPrw37u7Q]   Subscribe to the podcast: https://lpenelope.com/podcast [https://lpenelope.com/podcast] Get the Footnotes newsletter & become an Imaginary Best Friend: https://myimaginaryfriends.net [https://myimaginaryfriends.net] Support the show: Website [https://www.lpenelope.com] | Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/leslyepenelope] | Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/authorlpenelope] Affiliate Disclosure: I may receive compensation for links to products on this site either directly or indirectly via affiliate links. Heartspell Media, LLC is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.com [http://Amazon.com].