Author Business & Productivity
Treating writing like the business it is.
Chapter i·What this topic covers
An author career is a business with one product line (your backlist), one channel of distribution (retailers), and one factory (you). The decisions that make the business sustainable are taxes, contracts, accounting, schedule, and the boring stuff most writers avoid. Authors who treat the business side as a quarterly habit, not an annual scramble, outearn equally talented peers who don’t.
What you’ll find here
- Author LLCs, taxes, and bookkeeping for royalty income.
- Contracts, rights reversion, and assigning audiobook and translation rights.
- Schedule design: drafting weeks vs admin weeks vs launch weeks.
- Burnout prevention and writing through career-long careers, not single books.
Who this is for
Working authors with two or more books out and aspiring full-time authors.
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