If the pandemic has affected your sleep, you are not alone! If you want to sort out your sleep issues and improve your creativity — and your life — as we head into a new year, this episode with Dr. Anne D. Bartolucci will help. In the intro, publishing industry trends for 2022 [Written Word Media; Stark Reflections; Mark Coker Smashwords]; my Sell Direct Tutorial; Mark Dawson's Ads for Authors, which now includes Booktok; GPT-4 [Towards Data Science]; penn-courses.teachable.com/p/the-ai-assisted-author">AI-Assisted Author course. Today's show is sponsored by ProWritingAid, writing and editing software that goes way beyond just grammar and typo checking. With its detailed reports on how to improve your writing, and integration with Scrivener MS Word, Chrome and more, ProWritingAid will help you improve your book before you send it to an editor, agent or publisher. Check it out for free or get 25% off the premium edition at www.ProWritingAid.com/joanna Dr. Anne Bartolucci is a licensed psychologist and a certified behavioral sleep medicine specialist. She's the author of two non-fiction books, including Better Sleep for the Overachiever, and she's also a best-selling steampunk and urban fantasy author under Cecilia Dominic. You can listen above or on your favorite podcast app or read the notes and links below. Here are the highlights and the full transcript is below. Show Notes * Why sleep matters, especially for creatives* How the pandemic has affected sleeping habits* The different sleeping issues we can encounter at different times of life* Busting sleep myths* Different kinds of insomnia* How to improve your falling asleep time* Why the ‘rules’ are less important than what works for us individually* Do mindfulness and meditation help with sleep?* How Anne manages her day job and her author life — and lessons learned You can find Dr. Anne Bartolucci at OverachieverBook.com and on Twitter @CeciliaDominic Transcript of Interview with Anne D. Bartolucci Joanna Penn: Dr. Anne Bartolucci is a licensed psychologist and a certified behavioral sleep medicine specialist. She's the author of two non-fiction books,