The Profitable Author

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).

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Author Business Coaching Minute. Sign up for Novembers's free Zoom Power Hour for all authors, Thurs, Nov 19, 1pm-2pm CT, and discover the main obstacle holding you back from the author business you desire. #authorcoaching #authorbusiness #authorincome #profitableauthor #authorgoals #authorstrategy

conspirecreative.substack.comThis Month: What’s Blocking Your Business?November's Zoom Power Hour gives authors a space to pinpoint then address their biggest business obstacle
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Follow me on Substack! I’m a former traditional indie book publisher (25+ years), current author coach, publishing consultant, and business strategist, and I write about building holistic, income-generating author businesses you love, with an archive of 440 articles. #authorbusiness #authorcoaching

conspirecreative.substack.comThe Profitable Author: Build a Business You Love | Sharon Woodhouse | SubstackI've built profitable publishing businesses for 32 years. Now I help authors do the same. Strategies for sustainable income: mindsets, partnerships, revenue streams, and business frameworks. Subscribe...
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Author Business Coaching Minute. Checking in...are you doing 5 things a day, every day, to promote you, your books, your expertise, your author business? #authorbusiness #profitableauthor #bookmarketing #authormarketing #authorhabits #authorstrategy #authorcoaching #bookpromotion #authorpromotion

slowcharacter.medium.comDo 5 Things a Day Every Day: 10 Ways to Make Pillar 4 Work for YouThinking about and applying Step 4 of 7 of the Profitable Author Life You Love Framework
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Author Business Coaching Minute. Take a moment to let Lissa Woodson's author business model inspire you to think bigger. #authorbusiness #authorbusinessmodel #authorcoaching #authorgoals #authorstrategy #authorincome #profitableauthor #bookmarketing #authormarketing #authorpromotion

conspirecreative.substack.comLissa Woodson Is My New Patron Saint of Thinking BiggerWhat her author business model—52 books, an agency, travel events, and sponsored game nights—teaches the rest of us
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From the archives and updated: "From day 1 — today — anyone can begin an author business model with salary and wages. Think about it: This is the income that is already making your current author life, whatever state it may be in, possible. Score." 1 of 2

slowcharacter.medium.comAuthor Income Streams, 15 of 15: Salary and WagesSalary and Wages — because in creating an author business model that works today from where you’re at and can take you where you’re going…
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Author Business Coaching Minute. “Build your business savvy as you go, from where you’re at” is not mean to be rah-rah motivation. It’s a literal operating principle. When you feel behind, clueless, not ready or good enough enough—return to its beauty and take a dose of its anti-perfectionism.

conspirecreative.substack.comBuild Your Business Savvy As You Go: 10 Ways to Make Pillar 5 Work for YouStep 5 of 7 in the Profitable Author Life You Love Framework—applied to you, your books, and your situation
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From the archives and free to read for seven days: Get Used to Asking for Help in Your Author Business: 40 things you can ask for as you learn the joy of receiving, accepting, reaching out, and appreciating others’ generosity #authorcoaching #authormindset #authorstrategy #authorbusiness

conspirecreative.substack.comGet Used to Asking for Help in Your Author Business40 things you can ask for as you learn the joy of receiving, accepting, reaching out, and appreciating others’ generosity
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Congratulations to our client, Adair Gellman, on the release of her new book this week! After two painful grieving seasons and seven years of work, her commonsense guide to end-of-life planning (before AND after) is warm, practical, and full of her personality and personal touches.

adairgellman.comHonoring Their Wishes — A Commonsense Guide to End-of-Life Planning—Before and AfterWhat Adair Gellman learned settling her mother's estate in 2019 and her husband's estate in 2024 — checklists, real-paperwork advice, and the practical wisdom most of us aren't told until we're alread...
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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

conspirecreative.substack.comCustomizing Your Author Business: 10 Ways to Make Pillar 3 Work for YouStep 3 of 7 in the Profitable Author Life You Love Framework—applied to you, your books, your circumstances
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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

conspirecreative.substack.comAuthor/Publisher Booth Marketing Inspiration from the 2026 Printers Row Lit FestThe 10 coolest things I saw at this year’s event
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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

substack.comAuthors, Make Learning Business Your Next HobbySomething you can learn, develop, and enjoy at your own pace and desired level of intensity
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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

conspirecreative.substack.comJoin Our October Trick-or-Treating: Author Business BingoOur next free Beyond the Margins Power Hour offers a fun way to evaluate your author business activities...with cash prizes
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Tomorrow! Please join us. RSVP now for our free one-hour dive into the pillars of the "Human Preference Economy."

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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

conspirecreative.substack.comJoin Us: Positioning Yourself in the World of AI—The Human Preference EconomyCome 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 ongoing self-discovery bolsters an author business... #authorcoaching #authormindset #authorstrategy #authorgoals #authorbusiness #profitableauthor

conspirecreative.substack.comThe Self-Discovery Archive: Everything I’ve Written on Knowing Yourself to Build Your Author BusinessIntroducing 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.

swoodhousebooks.comS. Woodhouse Books | Custom Book Publishing & Project ManagementConcierge publishing for organizations, founders, and families. Business histories, legacy books, and custom projects managed by a 32-year publishing expert.
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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.

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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

conspirecreative.gumroad.comAuthor Business Model WorksheetAuthor 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...