The Profitable Author
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Sharon Woodhouse, former indie book publisher, owner of Conspire Creative (https://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).
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).
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!
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
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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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...
Tomorrow! Please join us. RSVP now for our free one-hour dive into the pillars of the "Human Preference Economy."
The Profitable Author@profitableauthor.bsky.social · 3w agoAuthor 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
Author Business Coaching Minute. How ongoing self-discovery bolsters an author business... #authorcoaching #authormindset #authorstrategy #authorgoals #authorbusiness #profitableauthor
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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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.
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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Author Business Coaching Minute. How adding a third element to your event planning can change everything. #authorevents #authorstrategy #authorcoaching #authorbusiness #profitableauthor #authorgoals
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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Author Business Coaching Minute. From the archive and updated. #authorgoals #authorstrategy #authorbusiness #authorincome #authorcoaching #profitableauthor
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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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.
Author Business Coaching Minute. Find new sources of resolve for your author business. #commitment #authorcommitment #authormindset #authorcoaching #authorbusiness #authorstrategy #authorgoals #profitableauthor
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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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
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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Author Business Coaching Minute. Take a moment to dive into the world of author solopreneurship. #authorgoals #authorstrategy #authorcoaching #authorbusiness #profitableauthor
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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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
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...
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
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
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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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-...
Money and Financial - Index of Articles
Getting paid, financing, pricing, taxes, and more
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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
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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Author Business Coaching Minute. How much do you want for yourself, your author career, your author business? #authormindset #authorcoaching #authorgoals #authorbusiness
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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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
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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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
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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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
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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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
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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Author Business Coaching Minute. Take a moment for fortification and learn how to use the hard parts. #authorcoaching #authormindset #authorgoals #authorstrategy #authorbusiness #profitableauthor
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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