The Creative Penn Podcast For Writers - Podcast Rankings and reviews

I love this podcast! Joanna is intelligent, articulate, and a delight to listen to. She is generous in sharing her research, knowledge, and experience. She is a talented interviewer. She asks great questions and is not afraid to challenge her guests but always does so respectfully. Best of all she doesn’t get political (thank you thank you, Joanna, for not going there). 5 stars, highly recommend!

All I can say is I adore Joanna, look forward to listening even when the topic or guest doesn’t really relate to what I’m doing, it’s always fun to join in for the ride. Also a rec for new listeners: the first 20 minutes are always updates, some personal but also news and resources so listen to that each episode at least if you don’t have interest in the main topic or interview.

This podcast works because Joanna Penn works!She’s super friendly, super dedicated, lifts fellow indies up, and does the most up-to-date groundbreaking work in self-publishing going on right now. I mean—an AI clone for your audiobook? Tell me more, robot Jo! She’s a tech savvy author who’ll do the work first so we can follow her lead. The format of this show is great too, since we get so much of direct, Joanna mixed in with awesome guests.

I like the podcast overall, but do wish she would split up the updates and news into a separate episode. I’m very much a “get to the point” listener, and fast forwarding through half of each episode isn’t practical.

However, that is my only complaint. Production quality is good, and it’s clear she puts a lot of effort into every episode.