Books, Tools & Training for Profitable Author Businesses

​​

Practical tools and strategic guides for building your sustainable author business—from comprehensive books to actionable worksheets and on-demand training.

​

​

THE PROFITABLE AUTHOR: 1,001 WAYS TO BUILD A BUSINESS YOU LOVE AROUND YOUR BOOKS

The multiple-award-winning comprehensive guide to author entrepreneurship. Learn to identify 15 different income streams, design a customized business model, master essential business skills, and create a sales and marketing plan tailored to you and your books—whether you write fiction, nonfiction, scholarly tomes, cookbooks, or children’s books.

​​

Learn more about The Profitable Author.

​​​

​​

AUTHOR BUSINESS OBSTACLE QUIZ

Discover what’s blocking your author business success. This quick quiz identifies your biggest obstacle based on patterns from 30+ years and hundreds of author businesses—so you can address it strategically instead of trying everything and hoping something works.

​

Free | Takes 5 minutes | Get immediate results

Take the quiz.

​

​

AUTHOR BUSINESS MODEL WORKSHEET

A 19-tab spreadsheet helping you customize an author income plan based on 15 broad categories of author income. Use it to refine your business plan, test income sources, estimate earnings, and track actual income over time. Cost is pay what you can (suggested: $28.95).

​

Get the Author Business Model Worksheet.

​

 

ON-DEMAND WEBINARS

​

How to Create a Profitable Author Life You Love
Transform your author experience from uncertainty and anxiety into enjoyment, expansion, and sustainable income. Learn to build income that lasts 3–10+ years from your books, author status, and expertise.

​

Build and Customize an Author Business Model
Follow along as I walk you through my proprietary spreadsheet for estimating and tracking 15 different types of author income. Create your own ideal business model with flexibility to experiment and adjust.

 

Access both webinars on Symposium.

​

​

PITCH WHAT’S TRUE: A PUBLISHER’S TOOLS FOR NAVIGATING YOUR BEST PATH TO A PUBLISHED NONFICTION BOOK

Discover and showcase the true value of your nonfiction book. Use a veteran publisher’s tools, checklists, and hard-earned advice to explore what publishers consider, craft authentic proposals, and follow a step-by-step strategic approach for finding optimal publishers.

​

Learn more about Pitch What's True.

​​

​

THE COACH WITHIN: 28 BIG IDEAS FOR ENGAGING THE POWER OF YOUR OWN WISDOM, CREATIVITY, AND CHOICES

Meet the coach within. Encounter the power of creativity, responsibility, self-care, curiosity, playing big, and 23 more transformative ideas from the world of coaching. Your thinking, seeing, doing, and being will never be the same.

​​

Learn more about The Coach Within.

​​

​

Ready to build your sustainable author business?

Start with The Profitable Author or explore coaching and consulting services.