What does it take to build a life around creativity?

In Episode 13 of Beyond the Page, Steve sits down with entrepreneur, TEDx speaker, designer, and author Paul Pape for a fascinating conversation about writing, business, imagination, and the challenges of publishing.

Paul shares how years of helping creative entrepreneurs eventually led him to fiction, including his supernatural horror novel Death's Intern, a coming-of-age story about a boy chosen to become Death's apprentice. Along the way, they discuss traditional publishing versus self-publishing, marketing books, horror fiction, storytelling, TEDx speaking, and why creativity can become both a career and a calling.

Topics include:

• Writing Death's Intern
• Traditional publishing vs. self-publishing
• Querying literary agents
• Horror and supernatural fiction
• Building authority through TEDx
• Entrepreneurship and creativity
• Gamifying business
• Marketing books
• The importance of imagination
• Why the 1980s remain such a compelling setting for fiction

If you're an author, entrepreneur, or simply love hearing the stories behind great books, this episode is packed with practical insights and plenty of laughs.

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