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Events and Speaking Gigs - Index of Articles A key pillar of most author businesses

Author Business Coaching Minute.

Check out the index to all my articles on author events, speaking gigs, and event income on Substack. What guidance and inspiration do you need around author events now?
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The Hot Mess of Publishing Has Met the New AI Slop So we’re throwing a party―and taking on AI, one human interaction at a time

Author Business Coaching Minute.

What's an author to do when the hot mess of book publishing meets the new AI slop?

Here's what one co-writing duo has come up with...
#authorevents #authorgoals #authorbusiness #authorstrategy

Author Business Coaching Minute.

How can you have x and y in your author business? Success and ease. Money and time. Craft and commerce. Imagine the world where your x and your x are both possible. What does it look like? #authorcoaching

Week 3 - Author Business Coaching Challenge: Creativity Week 3 of 29 - You can be as creative in your business as you are in your craft

Author Business Coaching Minute.

Join our free ongoing Author Business Coaching Challenge every Monday on Substack. Today's big idea from the world of coaching: Creativity. You can be as generative, innovative, imaginative in your business as your are in your craft.
#authorcoaching #authorgoals

Author Business Coaching Minute.

What if you could skip small, gradual steps in your author business--the baby steps--and arrive somewhere better for you? Where would that be?
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Author Business Coaching Minute.

What's a decision you've been trying to make for your author business? What's getting in the way of making it? What do you need to make that decision?
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Two Ways Authors and Publishers Should Make More Money Suggested corrections for the book publishing industry

Author Business Coaching Minute.

Would you be in favor of these two big changes to the book publishing industry?

How to Get a Free Copy or Copies of "The Profitable Author: 1,001 Ways to Build a Business You Love Around Your Books" Print, PDF, or EPUB copies for you and your writing groups

Author Business Coaching Minute.

This only takes a minute. Read and claim a book if you're ready to start or frow an author business. Please share.
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Haha. Not at all. In the end, it's your book! It's going to be great.

From Indie Publisher to Author Consultant: Sharon Woodhouse's Journey and Insights Book Lover's Companion - The English Version · Episode

A conversation with Austrian Edith Zeitlberger of Book Lover's Companion about making money as an author, cultivating a network of support, the impact of digital publishing, achieving finanancial and nonfinancial author goals, and other concerns of indie publishing.
#indiepublishing #indieauthors

Nice to all of it! Cover design, description, UIP site, robmillerwriting site.

Summertime and the Business Is Easy: 7 Pillars of a Profitable Author Life You’ll Love Actually, this part's not easy, but it is simple

Author Business Coaching Minute.

Do you have the 7 pillars in place for an income-generating, sustainable author life you love? Check the handout from last night's workshop.
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High heat and a high chance of rain means tonight's a great time to come to the inviting space (AC!) that is Volumes Bookcafe and learn some things that will make all the difference to your author trajectory. Guaranteed. Looking forward to seeing you and hearing your challenges and questions.

Authors, When the Going Gets Tough, the Tough Ask Questions Curiosity for mindset, approach, results

Author Business Coaching Minute.

The tough ask questions...and they ease up on being so hard on themselves, with curiosity. What do you need to know about your goals, your options, your book marketing, your book sales?
#authorcoaching #authormindset #authorbusiness #curiosity

Book review of The Profitable Author The Profitable Author: 1,001 Ways to Build a Business You Love Around Your Books by Sharon Woodhouse is a practical and motivational guide for writers who want to turn their books into a steady, fulfi...

Want a free copy of my 500-page "The Profitable Author: 1,001 Ways to Build a Business You Love Around Your Books"? Go to Readers Favorite and claim a copy (in exchange for an honest review).

Week 2 - Author Business Coaching Challenge: Your Meta Tool Box Week 2 of 29 - Bring your author goals big and small, financial and non-financial

Author Business Coaching Minute.

You in? You want to work on your author goals with a great group (no cost!) over the next 28 weeks while learning concepts from coaching that can boost your efforts? Just click...
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Join This Free 29-Week Author Business Coaching Challenge Every Monday for 29 Weeks for Those Willing to Do the Work

Author Business Coaching Minute.

Read this and join us tomorrow! FREE author business coaching support to work on your goals--big and small, financial and non-financial--for the next 6-7 months.

When Book Promotion Formulas and Go-To’s Fail, Follow the Tangents How the side stories of you, the author; your writing; and your books can lead to solid exposure and sales

Author Business Coaching Minute.

Are you taking advantage of all the tangential, side stories about your, your topics, and your books? Here are some examples for you to build on.

Hah. Hollywood Squares. Perfect.

10 Reasons Why Collecting No's Matters for Your Author Outreach and Business Not avoiding the no's is the path to a lot more of what you want

Author Business Coaching Minute.

Be honest. Are you hearing "no" enough to get you the things that you want for your author life?

Next up FREE mini-workshop for authors, writers, creatives, and others wanting to better monetize their work: 7 Pillars of a Sustainabble, Income-Generating Author Life You Love, at Volumes Bookcafe in Wicker Park, 1373 N Milwaukee, Ave, Tuesday, July 29, 6:30-8pm. @volumesbooks.bsky.social

Summertime and the Business Is Easy: Outreach for Authors Recap Here is the text of the handout I provided attendees at last week’s Outreach for Authors mini-workshop, #1 of 6 of my Summertime and the Business Is Easy series for authors, writers, creatives, freela...

Author Business Coaching Minute.

Grab the Outreach for Authors handout from last week's first in-person mini-workshop in my Summertime and the Business Is Easy series for authors, writers, creatives, freelancers, and other solopros who want to better monetize their work.

Join This Free 29-Week Author Business Coaching Challenge Every Monday for 29 Weeks for Those Willing to Do the Work

Author Business Coaching Minute.

This minute matters a bit more, so please take the time to consider if you're ready to join us and make a big difference
in your author life, your author goals, your author income, your book marketing, your author business. It's FREE, but you have to do the work.

Authors, You Know Best for Your Author Life and Business: Self as Authority 28 of 28 big ideas from the world of coaching to grow your author business

Author Business Coaching Minute.

Subscribe for free and join us on Substack starting next Monday, July 21, when I begin a 29-week group author business coaching session with a new post and challenge every Monday. Subscribe now to participate.

Vienna waited for it.

Learned today that "The Profitable Author" won the International Firebird Book Award in the Writing/Publishing Category. Check it out (thank you) and let me help you change your author life.
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Congratulations to author Sue Krawczyk Martin, who attended last night's mini-workshop on Outreach for Authors at Heirloom Books, and won the free one-hour consult prize in the drawing for all who purchased copies of "The Profitable Author." Here's Sue's book:
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