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51: Penn Cole on Indie Grit and a Traditional Publishing Deal
In this episode of On the Write Track, Emily sits down with Penn Cole, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of the Kindred's Curse Saga, to talk about the wild, unlikely road from self-publishing to a traditional deal with a Big 5 publisher. Penn opens up about leaving a career as an attorney to chase writing full time, and the leap of faith it took to bet on herself before anyone else would.
We dig into the highs and lows of going indie first: what it actually took to self-publish Spark of the Everflame and Glow of the Everflame, build an audience from nothing, and turn a passion…
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