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The Profitable Author

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Sharon Woodhouse, former indie book publisher, owner of Conspire Creative (conspirecreative.substack.com), and author of award-winning "The Profitable Author: 1,001 Ways to Build a Business You Love Around Your Books" (profitableauthorbook.com).

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The Profitable Author @profitableauthor.bsky.social · 4h
Running this one again...this time, with links that work. #authorgoals #authorcoaching #authormindset #authorbusiness #profitableauthor #selfdiscovery #authorstrategy
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The Self-Discovery Archive: Everything I’ve Written on Knowing Yourself to Build Your Author Business
Introducing the second installment of my archive round-up series—this time on the inner work that enriches your outer author life
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The Profitable Author @profitableauthor.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Author Business Coaching Minute. What are the strategic benefits of planning a year of events in advance? #authorcoaching #authorstrategy #authorgoals #authorevents #authorincome #authorbusiness #profitableauthor #bookmarketing #bookselling
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Plan a Year of Seasonal Author Events
Twelve months, twelve events, and all the strategic benefits of thinking ahead
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The Profitable Author @profitableauthor.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
READ NOW: Find the Path to Your Own Author Business by Copying Others: Mimic to learn, succeed, and discover your originality [Note: Moving permanently behind the paywall in 7 days.] #authorbusiness #authorgoals #authorstrategy #authorincome #profitableauthor #bookmarketing #authorcoaching
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Find the Path to Your Own Author Business by Copying Others
Mimic to learn, succeed, and discover your originality
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The Profitable Author @profitableauthor.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
NEW! READ NOW: Step 3 of 7 in the Profitable Author Life You Love Framework—applied to you, your books, your circumstances [Moving behind the paywall in 7 days]. #authorbusiness #profitableauthor #authorgoals #authorstrategy #bookmarketing #bookselling #authorcoach #authorincome #authormarketing
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Customizing Your Author Business: 10 Ways to Make Pillar 3 Work for You
Step 3 of 7 in the Profitable Author Life You Love Framework—applied to you, your books, your circumstances
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The Profitable Author @profitableauthor.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
READ NOW: An Authorpreneur Creed: An evolving pledge for authors building holistic, enterprising careers and businesses [Note: Will move permanently behind the paywall in 7 days.] #authorpreneur #authorbusiness #authorcoaching #authormindset #authorincome #bookmarketing #profitableauthor
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An Authorpreneur Creed
An evolving pledge for authors building holistic, enterprising careers and businesses
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The Profitable Author @profitableauthor.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
NEW! READ NOW: Author/Publisher Booth Marketing Inspiration from the 2026 Printers Row Lit Fest: The 10 coolest things I saw at this year’s event. [NOTE: This will move behind the paywall in 7 days.] #authorevents #authorbusiness #bookmarketing #authorcoaching #authorgoals #profitableautho
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Author/Publisher Booth Marketing Inspiration from the 2026 Printers Row Lit Fest
The 10 coolest things I saw at this year’s event
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The Profitable Author @profitableauthor.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
READ NOW: Authors, Make Learning Business Your Next Hobby: Something you can learn, develop, and enjoy at your own pace and desired level of intensity [NOTE: Moving permanently behind the paywall in 7 days] #authorbusiness #authorcoaching #authorgoals #authormindset #authorstrategy #profitableauthor
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Authors, Make Learning Business Your Next Hobby
Something you can learn, develop, and enjoy at your own pace and desired level of intensity
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The Profitable Author @profitableauthor.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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The Self-Discovery Archive: Everything I’ve Written on Knowing Yourself to Build Your Author…
Introducing the second installment of my archive round-up series — this time on the inner work that enriches your outer author life
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The Profitable Author @profitableauthor.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
READ NOW: Authors, About Your Willinness to Learn Business: You have the capacity and the ability to learn entrepreneurship, now choose it. [NOTE: Moving permanently behind the paywall in 7 days.] #authorbusiness #authorgoals #authorincome #profitableauthor #bookmarketing #authorcoaching
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Authors, About Your Willingness to Learn Business…
You have the capacity and the ability to learn entrepreneurship, now choose it
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The Profitable Author @profitableauthor.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Author Business Coaching Minute. Take a moment to RSVP for this month's free Zoom Power Hour for all authors. We'll be playing Author Business Bingo and giving out cash prizes. #authorcoaching #authorbusiness #authorincome #profitableauthor #bookmarketing #authorgoals #authorstrategy
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Join Our October Trick-or-Treating: Author Business Bingo
Our next free Beyond the Margins Power Hour offers a fun way to evaluate your author business activities...with cash prizes
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The Profitable Author @profitableauthor.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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The Profitable Author @profitableauthor.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Congratulations to our client Teresa Navas, who just received an Honorable Mention from the International Latino Book Awards 2026, presented by the Empowering Latino Futures organization (www.latinobooks.org).
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The Profitable Author @profitableauthor.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
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The Profitable Author @profitableauthor.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
It was a beautiful evening in Lincoln Square last night for client Mary Dean Cason to celebrate her book launch at The Book Cellar. Many congrats!
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The Profitable Author @profitableauthor.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Author Business Coaching Minute. Take a moment to grabo your free upgrade and begin planning and refining your own author business model. #authorbusiness #authorgoals #authorstrategy #authorcoaching #authorincome #profitableauthor
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A 100% Free Upgrade to the Author Business Model Worksheet
All 17 income types, updated content, easier navigation—and still yours for free
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The Profitable Author @profitableauthor.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Chicagoans! Join us tonight, Thur, 9/17, at The Book Cellar in Lincoln Square, 6:30pm, for the launch of our client Mary Dean Cason’s remarkable historical fiction, Daughters of Eve, a family and medical mystery, set in North Carolina, 1968 through mid-1980s. www.bookcellarinc.com/mary-dean-ca...
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The Profitable Author @profitableauthor.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
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The Solopreneur Author: A Round-Up of What I’ve Written on Solopreneurship
Introducing a new series that revives the best of the archive by theme — starting with going it alone
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The Profitable Author @profitableauthor.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Tomorrow! Please join us. RSVP now for our free one-hour dive into the pillars of the "Human Preference Economy."
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The Profitable Author @profitableauthor.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Author Business Coaching Minute. How ongoing self-discovery bolsters an author business... #authorcoaching #authormindset #authorstrategy #authorgoals #authorbusiness #profitableauthor
conspirecreative.substack.com
The Self-Discovery Archive: Everything I’ve Written on Knowing Yourself to Build Your Author Business
Introducing the second installment of my archive round-up series—this time on the inner work that enriches your outer author life
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The Profitable Author @profitableauthor.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Split off our project management & legacy book publishing work this week under the S. Woodhouse Books banner as those projects and their production teams were taking on a life of their own. Conspire Creative will remain our coaching and consulting "entrepreneurship" agency for authors & publishers.
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S. Woodhouse Books | Custom Book Publishing & Project Management
Concierge publishing for organizations, founders, and families. Business histories, legacy books, and custom projects managed by a 32-year publishing expert.
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The Profitable Author @profitableauthor.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Author Business Coaching Minute. How adding a third element to your event planning can change everything. #authorevents #authorstrategy #authorcoaching #authorbusiness #profitableauthor #authorgoals
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Your New Event Triangle: A Brainstorming Framework for Authors Who Want More Event Options
A third element most authors never consider can be what makes events better attended, more profitable, and worth repeating
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The Profitable Author @profitableauthor.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Author Business Coaching Minute. From the archive and updated. #authorgoals #authorstrategy #authorbusiness #authorincome #authorcoaching #profitableauthor
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Author Income Streams, 8 of 17: Store Sales
How to turn 172 retail outlets into a sustainable income stream for your author business
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The Profitable Author @profitableauthor.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Congratulations to client Joshua Becker for taking first place in the Fiction-Religion category of the NYC Big Book Award! Much deserved. It is very original, speculative, time-traveling, sci-fi-ish with a religion/religous-history twist.
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The Profitable Author @profitableauthor.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Author Business Coaching Minute. Find new sources of resolve for your author business. #commitment #authorcommitment #authormindset #authorcoaching #authorbusiness #authorstrategy #authorgoals #profitableauthor
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Your Author Business Commitment: 10 Ways to Claim It, Keep It, and Come Back to It
Step 2 of 7 in the Profitable Author Life You Love Framework—applied to your specific situation
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The Profitable Author @profitableauthor.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Author Business Coaching Minute. Take a moment to grab your copy of Ver. 4 of my Author Business Model Worksheet, released this week and available free or pay what you want on Gumroad. Thanks to Kristoffer Balintona for helping add new income type worksheets. #authorbusiness #profitableauthor
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Author Business Model Worksheet
Author Business Model WorksheetOver my 25+ years as an indie book publisher and overlapping 20+ years as an author entrepreneurship coach and consultant, I have identified 17 broad categories of autho...
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The Profitable Author @profitableauthor.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Author Business Coaching Minute. Take a moment to dive into the world of author solopreneurship. #authorgoals #authorstrategy #authorcoaching #authorbusiness #profitableauthor
conspirecreative.substack.com
The Solopreneur Author: A Round-Up of What I’ve Written on Solopreneurship
Introducing a new series that revives the best of the archive by theme—starting with going it alone
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The Profitable Author @profitableauthor.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Congrats to client Al Krockey on the 4th award for his hilarious and epic 1968 memoir, Distinguished Favorite in Nonfiction (NYC Big Book Award). Wooee. Al lived a life and now you can read about it! First in the trilogy. 1969's even better and is up next. www.straightouttaskokie.com
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The Profitable Author @profitableauthor.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Congrats to client Mary Dean Cason on the release of her latest...A gripping family and medical mystery and so much more: "Set in the fractured landscape of 1968, Daughters of Eve asks what it costs a woman to live fully—and what it costs her family when she cannot." www.amazon.com/Daughters-Ev...
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The Profitable Author @profitableauthor.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Congratulations to one of my first business coaches, the amazing and unstoppable Gail Zelitzky, on the release of her new book this week! womenover70.com
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The Profitable Author @profitableauthor.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Author Business Coaching Minute. 10 ways to show yourself that building a sustainable, income-generating author business you love is possible. Not in theory...but for YOU. #authorcoaching #authorstrategy #authorgoals #uauthormindset #authorbusiness #profitableauthor
conspirecreative.substack.com
Make It Yours: 10 Ways to Make “Know It’s Possible” Work for You
Step 1 of 7 in the Profitable Author Life You Love Framework—applied to your author business
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The Profitable Author @profitableauthor.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Author Business Coaching Minute. Find what you need now for your author business on money and finances: Getting paid, financing, taxes, pricing, and more. conspirecreative.substack.com/p/money-and-...
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Money and Financial - Index of Articles
Getting paid, financing, pricing, taxes, and more
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The Profitable Author @profitableauthor.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Author Business Coaching Minute. Take a moment to RSVP for our next free Zoom Power Hour for all authors. 1pm-2pm CT, September 17. #authorstrategy #authorgoals #authorbusiness #bookmarketing #authormarketing #profitableauthor
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Join Us: Positioning Yourself in the World of AI—The Human Preference Economy
Come with the questions you’ve been mulling over—our free Beyond the Margins Zoom Power Hour on September 17 is for thinking them through together
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The Profitable Author @profitableauthor.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Author Business Coaching Minute. How much do you want for yourself, your author career, your author business? #authormindset #authorcoaching #authorgoals #authorbusiness
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It’s Not a Coach’s Job to Want More for You Than You Want for Yourself
What this Substack can and cannot do for your author business
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The Profitable Author @profitableauthor.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Author Business Coaching Minute. Take a moment and sign up for our next free Zoom Power Hour for all authors. We'll be discussing strategies for your author businesses in the "Human Preference Economy." #authorcoaching #authorbusiness #authorstrategy #bookmarketing #profitableauthor #authorgoals
conspirecreative.com
Positioning Yourself in the World of AI: The Human Preference Economy | Conspire Creative
What makes a human-built author business valuable? We’ll explore the "Human Preference Economy," its three pillars, and the "micropreneur moment" — and brainstorm ways to strengthen your positioning a...
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The Profitable Author @profitableauthor.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Author Business Coaching Minute. Discover the book marketing possibilities if you find a mission tucked into your fiction. #bookmarketing #authorbusiness #authorcoaching #authorstrategy #authormarketing #authorevents #profitableauthor
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Book Marketing When You Discover a Mission Tucked Into Your Fiction
A case study with clinical psychologist and certified fraud examiner Virginia Youngren
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The Profitable Author @profitableauthor.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
From the archives and updated:
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Author Income Streams, 6 of 17: Event Book Sales
Think like a pop-up retailer — professionalize your book sales at every author event
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The Profitable Author @profitableauthor.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Are YOUR books coming to museum shops near you?
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Reading a Museum Shop: A Regional and Niche Case Study for Authors
What these bookcases reveal about opportunities for authors
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The Profitable Author @profitableauthor.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Author Business Coaching Minute. Take a moment to see where the kids are. What they're doing. What they're thinking about. #authorstrategy #authormarketing #bookmarketing #authorcoaching #authorbusiness #profitableauthor #authorevents
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Authors, Gen Z, and Book Marketing: Meeting on Common Ground in Real Life
Beks Roen on younger readers wanting exactly what good author businesses are already built on—authenticity, experience, and connection
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The Profitable Author @profitableauthor.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Author Business Coaching Minute. Take a moment to evaluate your author/author business brand with the brilliant framework of Lidia Varesco Racoma. #authorcoaching #authorbranding #authormarketing #bookmarketing #authorbusiness #profitableauthor
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Author Branding Becomes Strategic When You’re Intentional
Lidia Varesco Racoma's WHO, WHAT, WHY, and WHERE framework for building an author brand that actually works
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The Profitable Author @profitableauthor.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Author Business Coaching Minute. Take a moment for fortification and learn how to use the hard parts. #authorcoaching #authormindset #authorgoals #authorstrategy #authorbusiness #profitableauthor
conspirecreative.substack.com
Authors, Why You Should Never, Ever Quit at the Hard Parts
The first Seth Godin thing that captured my attention since “Purple Cow”...in light of author businesses
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The Profitable Author @profitableauthor.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Authors in the business of neurobiology...
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Why Our Brains Love Story - Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory | UCI CNLM
We all love to sit down with a good book or a movie and feel transported to an alternate reality. What makes a story so captivating? How does the brain…
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The Profitable Author @profitableauthor.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
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Big Shoulders, Small Paychecks. Let’s Fix That.
The data is damning, the history is inspiring, the time to build an economically vibrant literary eco-system is now.
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The Profitable Author @profitableauthor.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Author Business Coaching Minute. All authors are welcome to join our free Zoom Power Hour this afternoon, 1pm-2pm CT. Learn from Beks Roen and bring him all of your questions and challenges re: marketing to younger generations. #authorstrategy #authorcoaching #authormarketing #bookmarketing\
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Marketing Your Books & Author Business to Younger Generations: Authenticity, connections, and the AI Age with Beks Roen | Conspire Creative
Young readers want authenticity, not algorithms. Gen Z author Beks Roen (14+ publications since 2020) shares what works to reach younger audiences: online presence without social media burnout, tangib...
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The Profitable Author @profitableauthor.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Author Business Coaching Minute. Your books have a place—guaranteed—in the gift shops of some or many museums. Read on and make your plan. #bookselling #bookmarketing #authorgoals #authorstrategy #museumstores #authorcoaching #authorbusiness #authorincome #profitableauthor
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Reading a Museum Shop: A Regional and Niche Case Study for Authors
What these bookcases reveal about opportunities for authors
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The Profitable Author @profitableauthor.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Please share with appropriate organizations you may know or be affiliated with... Yay, science.
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I have free hardcover copies of a prominent Italian-American scientist’s biography to give away to Italian-American clubs, organizations, and events in a quantity that fits your needs—a dozen copies… ...
I have free hardcover copies of a prominent Italian-American scientist’s biography to give away to Italian-American clubs, organizations, and events in a quantity that fits your needs—a dozen copies u...
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The Profitable Author @profitableauthor.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
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The Most Effective Changes I Incorporated Into My Workday and Business Practices in the Last Twelve…
What did you figure out for your author life this year that you wish you’d figured out sooner?
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The Profitable Author @profitableauthor.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Author Business Coaching Minute. Take a moment and RSVP for our next Zoom Power Hour, free and open to all authors. Monday, August 17, 1pm-2pm. Beks is brilliant, charming, and prone to original thinking. #bookmarketing #authormarketing #authorstrategy #authorcoaching #profitableauthor
conspirecreative.substack.com
Marketing Your Books to Younger Generations
A free Beyond the Margins Power Hour with Gen Z author and traveling actor Beks Roen—August 17
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The Profitable Author @profitableauthor.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Author Business Coaching Minute. How can we collectively work towards increasing economic vitality and sustainability for book, book publishing, and book selling ecosystems? #authorstrategy #authorbusiness #authorincome #bookpublishing #profitableauthor
conspirecreative.substack.com
Big Shoulders, Small Paychecks. Let's Fix That.
The data is damning, the history is inspiring, the time to build an economically vibrant literary eco-system is now.
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The Profitable Author @profitableauthor.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
slowcharacter.medium.com
How to Close a Sales Call in Your Author Business
Nine closing approaches — use one or stack several — to facilitate the results you seek
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The Profitable Author @profitableauthor.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Seen at Cafe Julia in South Haven, Michigan, during last weekend’s National Blueberry Festival: Someone has turned “Blind Date with a Book” into a business/side hustle. Wrapped, curated books paired with tea, honey, a highlighter, a teaser, and artwork. $25.
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