The Profitable Author
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Sharon Woodhouse, former indie book publisher, owner of Conspire Creative ( and author of award-winning "The Profitable Author: 1,001 Ways to Build a Business You Love Around Your Books" (profitableauthorbook.com).
Be like Shakespeare & Co in Paris? Encourage your local indie to offer to stamp your purchase. You'd have a reminder of where you purchased books in your collection. Stores could distinguish themselves with a distinctive stamps. Readers may be inspired to visit other stores and collect their stamp?
Leaving my vacation read, Carmen Amato's Russian Mojito, book 7 in her Emilia Cruz detective series, behind for one of the multilingual citizens or visitors of Luxembourg city.
Congratulations to our client, Ken Indermark, publishing his first book, a collection of short stories, eight decades into life.
Do you have a book with a daily/weekly component or lesson? Instead of just an audiobook, also consider an app that can nudge readers/users on a schedule.
Author, athlete, trainer, and speaker Darnell Williams takes video of himself for social media at the Berywn (IL) Public Library's Local Author Fair. Not a brand new concept, but I snapped a photo because in 30 yrs in the book world, I have not seen it at a fest before. Easy for all of us to copy!
Surprised that I hadn't seen this sooner than this past weekend at the Berwyn Public Library's Local Author Fair: A coloring book to go along with a kid's book. (Photo: Juanita Hernandez and her book, Elena and Lenudo, and amazing display.)
Introduce this to your library: Blind Date with a Local Author's Book! Seen at the Berwyn (IL) Public Library's Local Author Fair this weekend.
Congratulations to Randy Richardson on his new Tanner Ford thriller, Another Havana Hangover. Look at the fitting swag from his launch party last night: a shot glass, a coaster, devalued Cuban currency (great bookmark!). #bookmarketing #bookpromotion #authorstrategy #authorbusiness #authorgoals
Author Business Coaching Minute. If you missed this morning's session and would like the 40-page PDF of related info, DM me for a copy.
Author Business Coaching Minute. Please take a moment and see if this offer isn't just what you need...It's the last day to get double discounts on the next Author's Business Accelerator cohort that begins in Feb. Save 10% + another 10% if you join with a friend.
Thanks to all fans and followers, new and old, of the Author Business Coaching Minute. All the best for you, your writing, your author dreams, and your author businesses n 2026!
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YES, Canadian Authors. I will ship a free print book to Canada with a year’s paid subscription. Thanks to the person who asked (and subscribed)!
Because I am such an advocate for entrepreneurship as the best path for most authors to realize their author dreams--big and small, financial and non-financial, this runner-up award for "The Profitable Author" in the entrepreneurship category really pleases me. #authorbusiness #profitableauthor
I talk to Andrea Hines and Ruth Griffin on their AuthorsUp podcast about being a profitable author, crafting the right business model for you, and lots, lots more. creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/...
Author Business Coaching Minute. Rumor has it that the owner of an iconic, popular downtown Chicago restaurant let an author friend show & sell his book table-to-table one night last month. The question is, do you have such a business owner friend! Attention customers... #authorgoals #booksales
Author Business Coaching Minute. Consider the possibility that there's no sacrific, suffering, or trade-offs to have what you want as an author? What does that look like? How does that feel? #authorgoals #authorbusiness #authorcoaching #authorcoach #profitableauthor #authormindset #authorstrategy
Tonight! Final mini-workshop of the summer at City Newsstand in Chicago's Portage Park neighborhood. What's YOUR biggest obstacle to a sustainable living from your craft and what are some workarounds to that? Join us!
Author Business Coaching Minute. Passionate defense of the actual First Amendment matters to our author lives (and beyond).
"Distinguished Favorite" in the NYC Big Book Award Writing/Publishing category. I share because it's cool to win an award, but mostly I want you to use this book because IT WILL MAKE A DIFFFERENCE in how you relate to book marketing and the business of being an author.
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