My Imaginary Friends with L. Penelope
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National Book Festival
My Imaginary Friends with L. Penelope
09/05/22 • 25 min
5.0
Mentioned:
The National Book Festival - https://www.loc.gov/events/2022-national-book-festival/
B.L. Blanchard - blblanchard.com
Tochi Onyebuchi - tochionyebuchi.com
NPR Codeswitch - https://www.npr.org/podcasts/510312/codeswitch
The Hot Sheet newsletter - https://hotsheetpub.com/
"Notes from Across the Pond" Banished newsletter (paywall) https://banished.substack.com/p/notes-from-across-the-pond
Purple Hearts on Netflix
Susan Dennard - The Luminaries Street Team - https://luminerds.substack.com/p/hunter-trials-challenge-1
The My Imaginary Friends podcast is a weekly, 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 | Get the Footnotes newsletter - http://lpen.co/footnotes
Support the show - http://frolic.media/podcasts!
Stay in touch with me! Website | Instagram | Twitter | Facebook
Music credit:
Say Good Night by Joakim Karud https://soundcloud.com/joakimkarud
Creative Commons — Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported— CC BY-SA 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
Music promoted by Audio Library 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.
3 Listeners
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Doubling Down
My Imaginary Friends with L. Penelope
09/12/22 • 27 min
5.0
Mentioned:
B2Weird book club - https://www.instagram.com/b2weird/
Rings of Power
House of the Dragon
She-Hulk
Once Upon a Forbidden Desire releases Sep. 13 - https://books2read.com/forbiddenfairytales
"Her Majesty's Wolf" excerpt - https://lpenelope.com/2022/09/her-majestys-wolf-excerpt/
My newsletter - https://lpenelope.com/newsletter/
Hidden Black towns beneath America's lakes - https://www.instagram.com/p/CiTAeKvLbSx/
Beyond Tulsa: The Secret History of Flooding Black Towns to Make Lakes | The Amber Ruffin Show - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3D4hSQcWbk
Margaret Pinard's September #AuthPanel on THE BACKLIST - https://youtu.be/5KrwzZqEy7o
Huberman Lab podcast - Optimize Your Focus - https://hubermanlab.com/focus-toolkit-tools-to-improve-your-focus-and-concentration/
Publishing Will Never Be Fair - https://unherd.com/2022/07/publishing-will-never-be-fair/
The My Imaginary Friends podcast is a weekly, 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 | Get the Footnotes newsletter - http://lpen.co/footnotes
Support the show - http://frolic.media/podcasts!
Stay in touch with me! Website | Instagram | Twitter | Facebook
Music credit:
Say Good Night by Joakim Karud https://soundcloud.com/joakimkarud
Creative Commons — Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported— CC BY-SA 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
Music promoted by Audio Library 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.
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Back on Track... Sort of
My Imaginary Friends with L. Penelope
05/30/22 • 22 min
5.0
Order signed, personalized copies of THE MONSTERS WE DEFY from Loyalty Books and get a free swag pack: https://www.loyaltybookstores.com/preordermonsters
Artwork of Zeli from Earthsinger Chronicles: https://www.instagram.com/p/CSxKOH7nUKe/. Art by Nicole Deal: https://www.instagram.com/nicole.deal.art/
Pysthache character artist: https://www.instagram.com/mlle_pysthache/
THE MONSTERS WE DEFY starred Publishers Weekly review - https://www.publishersweekly.com/9780316377911
Severance on Apple TV
Top Gun Maverick!!
Kenobi on Disney+
The My Imaginary Friends podcast is a weekly, 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 | Get the Footnotes newsletter - http://lpen.co/footnotes
Support the show - http://frolic.media/podcasts!
Stay in touch with me! Website | Instagram | Twitter | Facebook
Music credit:
Say Good Night by Joakim Karud https://soundcloud.com/joakimkarud
Creative Commons — Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported— CC BY-SA 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
Music promoted by Audio Library 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.
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The Finish Line
My Imaginary Friends with L. Penelope
10/03/22 • 24 min
Sponsor: A Ghost in Shining Armor by Therese Beharrie https://www.kensingtonbooks.com/9781420153408/a-ghost-in-shining-armor/
Mentioned:
Inkarnate map software - https://inkarnate.com/
Whimsical - https://whimsical.com/
Miro - https://miro.com/
EdrawMax - https://www.edrawsoft.com/edraw-max/
Author Naomi Novik - https://www.naominovik.com/
On Aphantasia "What It's Like to Be 'Mind Blind'" - https://time.com/6155443/aphantasia-mind-blind/
750words.com - https://750words.com/
The My Imaginary Friends podcast is a weekly, 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 | Get the Footnotes newsletter - http://lpen.co/footnotes
Support the show - http://frolic.media/podcasts!
Stay in touch with me! Website | Instagram | Twitter | Facebook
Music credit:
Say Good Night by Joakim Karud https://soundcloud.com/joakimkarud
Creative Commons — Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported— CC BY-SA 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
Music promoted by Audio Library 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.
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Worldbuilding on the Go
My Imaginary Friends with L. Penelope
08/29/22 • 25 min
5.0
10 Things I Learned from Junot Diaz:
1. “Unless it’s breaking you, why would anyone else care?”
2. Give readers a chance to interact with the work - don’t chew it up and put it in their mouths. Let them come to different conclusions. Give them choices to let them decide what to think.
3. Writers cannot be "in cahoots" with the story - safeguard a space for the reader in the story. The story shouldn’t be dictated by the author.
4. Memory is contained and not dangerous. Memory work disrupts the immersion of the story because the character is not immersed in remembering
5. 1st POV should not try to discharge the function of 3rd POV
6. Withholding information is not developing character or plot. Non-information creates disinterest.
7. With characters, take away the one thing you think is important and see what you have left. Allow them to interact with others to let the reader see who they really are. Scaling with at least 2 others allows you to triangulate.
8. We look away to spare ourselves from feeling the pain and hope the reader will do the work for us. By taking the reader into our pain, we can be seen.
9. Always Be Building Character
10. Tend to your wound. Integrate it and write from there. Balance the person and the artist. Tend to your personhood so that if you never write again, you’ll still love yourself.
Mentions:
A Midsummer Night's Dream - https://www.instagram.com/p/ChxVmTbpG_V/
Mysterious Galaxy - https://www.mystgalaxy.com/
DJ Reads Books IG live - https://www.instagram.com/p/ChlNnAiFEyq/
Scrivener - https://www.literatureandlatte.com/scrivener/overview
Storyist - https://www.storyist.com/
Patricia C. Wrede Fantasy Worldbuilding Questions - https://pcwrede.com/pcw-wp/fantasy-worldbuilding-questions/
Holly Black on Magic Systems - https://www.penandstory.com/2011/04/17/holly-black-on-creating-working-magic/
VONA/Voices writers workshop - https://www.vonavoices.org/
Junot Diaz - http://www.junotdiaz.com/
Hurston Wright Foundation - https://www.hurstonwright.org/
Dolen Perkins-Valdez - https://dolenperkinsvaldez.com/
Writers mentioned: Kacen Callender, Ines Johnson, Shanae Johnson, Nicole Dennis-Benn, Daniel Jose Older, Lesley Nneka Arimah
The My Imaginary Friends podcast is a weekly, 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 | Get the Footnotes newsletter - http://lpen.co/footnotes
Support the show - http://frolic.media/podcasts!
Stay in touch with me! Website | Instagram | Twitter | Facebook
Music credit:
Say Good Night by Joakim Karud https://soundcloud.com/joakimkarud
Creative Commons — Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported— CC BY-SA 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
Music promoted by Audio Library 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.
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Fall Retreat!
My Imaginary Friends with L. Penelope
10/24/22 • 22 min
Mentioned:
Highlights Foundation Retreats - https://thebarnatboydsmills.com/highlights-foundation-workshops-retreats/
Becca Syme - https://betterfasteracademy.com/
Erin Bowman: Enjoyability over all else - https://erinbowman.substack.com/p/enjoyability-over-all-else
Stephanie Perkins: Love lists - http://betweenfactandfiction.blogspot.com/2011/01/happy-writers-society-love-lists-by.html
Calendly appointment scheduling - https://calendly.com/
Reclaim.ai - https://reclaim.ai/r/s/TpyPY (referral link)
Time blocking - https://todoist.com/productivity-methods/time-blocking
October 27, 2022 - Black Voices of the Future: Spirits of the City with Leslye Penelope & Alex Jennings - https://hachette-uk.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_bifaPrM-R6KCG4_zwAsFRw#/registration
The My Imaginary Friends podcast is a weekly, 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 | Get the Footnotes newsletter - http://lpen.co/footnotes
Support the show - http://frolic.media/podcasts!
Stay in touch with me! Website | Instagram | Twitter | Facebook
Music credit:
Say Good Night by Joakim Karud https://soundcloud.com/joakimkarud
Creative Commons — Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported— CC BY-SA 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
Music promoted by Audio Library 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.
2 Listeners

Getting Closer
My Imaginary Friends with L. Penelope
09/19/22 • 18 min
5.0
Mentioned:
The Woman King film (5 stars from me!)
Once Upon a Forbidden Desire - https://books2read.com/forbiddenfairytales
My TikTok - https://tiktok.com/@leslyepenelope
TikTok Sells Books course - https://tiktoksellsbooks.com/
TikTok warning - https://twitter.com/BrendanCarrFCC/status/1559896054514028546
The My Imaginary Friends podcast is a weekly, 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 | Get the Footnotes newsletter - http://lpen.co/footnotes
Support the show - http://frolic.media/podcasts!
Stay in touch with me! Website | Instagram | Twitter | Facebook
Music credit:
Say Good Night by Joakim Karud https://soundcloud.com/joakimkarud
Creative Commons — Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported— CC BY-SA 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
Music promoted by Audio Library 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.
2 Listeners
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Successful Writing Retreats
My Imaginary Friends with L. Penelope
06/06/22 • 22 min
5.0
Mentioned:
Galaxy's Edge magazine - http://www.galaxysedge.com
Deep Work by Cal Newport - https://amzn.to/3mgpA4p
Paragraph Workspace for Writers in New York City - https://www.paragraphny.com
Adjustable portable laptop stand - https://amzn.to/38QHhEH
Write Your Novel From the Middle by James Scott Bell - https://amzn.to/35eBwLu
ConTinual interview with Jean Marie Ward: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxqnMWauhbA
Bookfly Design, cover designer - https://www.bookflydesign.com
Preorder THE MONSTERS WE DEFY - https://lpen.co/monsters
THE MONSTERS WE DEFY character art - https://www.instagram.com/p/CeWIinFu-Jb/
The My Imaginary Friends podcast is a weekly, 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 | Get the Footnotes newsletter - http://lpen.co/footnotes
Support the show - http://frolic.media/podcasts!
Stay in touch with me! Website | Instagram | Twitter | Facebook
Music credit:
Say Good Night by Joakim Karud https://soundcloud.com/joakimkarud
Creative Commons — Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported— CC BY-SA 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
Music promoted by Audio Library 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.
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001: On Beginnings
My Imaginary Friends with L. Penelope
03/02/19 • 10 min
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002: Research Rabbit Holes
My Imaginary Friends with L. Penelope
03/02/19 • 18 min
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How many episodes does My Imaginary Friends with L. Penelope have?
My Imaginary Friends with L. Penelope currently has 219 episodes available.
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The podcast is about Society & Culture, Personal Journals, Podcasts, Books and Arts.
What is the most popular episode on My Imaginary Friends with L. Penelope?
The episode title 'National Book Festival' is the most popular.
What is the average episode length on My Imaginary Friends with L. Penelope?
The average episode length on My Imaginary Friends with L. Penelope is 24 minutes.
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Episodes of My Imaginary Friends with L. Penelope are typically released every 7 days.
When was the first episode of My Imaginary Friends with L. Penelope?
The first episode of My Imaginary Friends with L. Penelope was released on Mar 2, 2019.
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