Summary: In this episode, we talk with bestselling author <a href="https://www.thecreativepenn.com/">Joanna Penn</a> about how to reduce your pain, improve your health, and build a writing career for the long term. If you need more energy to promote your book, you will not want to miss this podcast.<br> Joanna is a New York Times and USA Today <a href="http://jfpenn.com/">bestselling thriller author</a>, as well as a <a href="http://www.thecreativepenn.com/books/">non-fiction author who writes book for authors. She’s sold over </a> 500,000 copies of her 23 books in 84 countries and 5 languages. She’s an indie author, speaker, an international <a href="http://www.thecreativepenn.com/speaking/">speaker</a> and voted one of <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/culture-professionals-network/culture-professionals-blog/2013/nov/19/hospital-club-100-list-2013?utm_source=hootsuite&utm_campaign=hootsuite#Publishing">The Guardian UK’s Top 100 creative professionals 2013</a>. She’s based in Bath, England although she lived in Australia and New Zealand for 11 years and she’s a travel junkie!<br> Great to have you on the show again, Joanna! How has the year started off for you?<br> We’re excited to talk to you about her latest release, The Healthy Writer: Reduce Your Pain, Improve Your Health, And Build A Writing Career For The Long Term<br> <br> Questions<br> What made you want to write this book? How did it come about?<br> Why should authors care about their health? Isn’t that just for athletes?<br> How does our health, or lack of health, affect our writing and our stories?<br> How important is sleep?<br> I (Jim) find that after an intense period of writing, I’m exhausted, not just emotionally, but physically too. Am I alone in that, or do we have to take into consideration the toll writing takes on our physical health?<br> After coming off a season of writing, what are the best ways writers can refresh and restore themselves?<br> What can we do during an intense writing time to stay healthy?<br> What health challenges do authors create for themselves that they don’t have to with a little preventative thinking?<br> Speaking of willpower… We WANT to take action to be healthier writers, how do we go from wanting to doing on a consistent basis? <br> You would take care of your child if they came to you, so why wouldn’t you take care of yourself? <br> Read <a href="https://smile.amazon.com/Why-We-Sleep-Unlocking-Dreams/dp/1501144316/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1518111096&sr=8-1&keywords=Why+We+Sleep">Why We Sleep</a> Book<br> Read <a href="https://smile.amazon.com/Mini-Habits-Smaller-Bigger-Results-ebook/dp/B00HGKNBDK/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1518111365&sr=1-1&keywords=mini+habits">Mini-Habits</a> book<br> As an author, you are your biggest asset.<br> Don’t wait to try new things, like dictation for example, until there’s no other alternative<br> (James) If you could only pick one, what is the one lifestyle change that you would put first with regards to being a healthier writer in 2018?<br> Where can folks buy <a href="https://smile.amazon.com/Healthy-Writer-improve-writing-Writers-ebook/dp/B0763XLK24?sa-no-redirect=1">The Healthy Writer</a>?<br>
