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

Take a minute and check out the marketing ideas for authors cribbed from other industries.
#bookmarketing #authormarketing #authorgoals #authorstrategy #authorbusiness #profitableauthor
How to Adapt “Shop Here: Bowl Free” for Your Author Business
Another installment in cribbing marketing ideas from other fields
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November 11, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Just say yes.
Just show up.
Just get advice from publishing and business pros.
Just get help from fellow authors.

Just make end-of-the year and holiday sales and marketing EASIER and more PROFITABLE for you.

RSVP in link for our free one-hour event.
Holiday Book Marketing and Sales: Learn, Share, and Strategize End-of-Year Author Promotions Together | Conspire Creative
Join us for quick tips on optimizing end-of-the year book marketing and sales, then brainstorm with fellow authors on your November and December plans. Bring your questions, share your suggestions, an...
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November 10, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Author Business Coaching Minute.

Where in your book marketing, author life, author business can you train the lens of "what's ideal" on?
#idealizing #coachyourself #authorcoach #authorcoaching #authorbusiness #authorbusinesscoaching #authorgoals #authorstrategy #bookmarketing #authormindset
Week 17 - Author Business Coaching Challenge - Idealizing
Chasing perfection to catch excellence
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November 10, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Author Business Coaching Minute.

Give the gift of better year-end sales and promotions to other authors you know. Share this link. (And join us! Thank you.)
#bookmarketing #bookselling #authorgoals #authorstrategy #authorincome #authorbusiness #profitableauthor #authorcoaching
Learn, Share, and Strategize End-of-Year Author Promotions Together
Free holiday book marketing and sales Zoom call for all authors
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November 9, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Author Business Coaching Minute.

25% of all book sales occur in November and December. People are actively spending money buying books as gifts AND for themselves.

Don’t miss out on your cut of the action.

Join us! Get ideas, inspiration, motivation, and plans into place. FREE. RSVP today.
Learn, Share, and Strategize End-of-Year Author Promotions Together
Free holiday book marketing and sales Zoom call for all authors
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November 8, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Author Business Coaching Minute.

Take a minute and sign up for our free, one-hour Zoom get-together: "Holiday Book Marketing and Sales: Learn, Share, and Strategize End-of-Year Author Promotions Together."
#bookmarketing #bookselling #authorincome #authorgoals #authorcoaching #authorbusiness
Holiday Book Marketing and Sales: Learn, Share, and Strategize End-of-Year Author Promotions Together | Conspire Creative
Join us for quick tips on optimizing end-of-the year book marketing and sales, then brainstorm with fellow authors on your November and December plans. Bring your questions, share your suggestions, an...
www.conspirecreative.com
November 7, 2025 at 4:33 PM
I talk to Andrea Hines and Ruth Griffin on their AuthorsUp podcast about being a profitable author, crafting the right business model for you, and lots, lots more.
creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/...
November 7, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Author Business Coaching Minute.

Download our Author Business Model Worksheet for free.
Beging tracking, tweaking, and testing what works for you and your books.
#authorbusiness #authorcoaching #authorgoals #authorstrategy #authorincome #profitableauthor
Grab Our Author Business Model Worksheet
Download and organize your author finances for free
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November 5, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Author Business Coaching Minute.

Consider all the life skills advantages kids get from starting business and see if the same can support your author endeavors.
#authorcoach #authorcoaching #authorbusiness #authorbusinesscoaching #authormindset #authorgoals
More Inspo from Kid Entrepreneurs for Authors
Let the life skills advantages they develop support what you create around your books
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November 4, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Win 25 nonfiction ebooks (including "The Profitable Author: 1,001 Ways to Build a Business You Love Around Your Books") and a new Kindle.

Enter for free at the link.
Self-Help & Self-Improvement eBook and Kindle Giveaway – November 1st 2025
Deals on Bestselling eBooks
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November 3, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Author Business Coaching Minute.

Test the concept of being before doing. Who do you want to be as an author? As an author with a business? Choose the "be," and let the doing follow from that.
#authorcoach #authorcoaching #coachyourself #authorgoals #authorstrategy #authorbusiness #profitableauthor
Week 16 - Author Business Coaching Challenge - Being Not Doing
Let who you want to be come first and inspire the doing in your author business
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November 3, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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October 31, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Author Business Coaching Minute.

ALL AUTHORS WELCOME! Join us TODAY in just 2 hours for a fun, free, one-hour how-to and community problem-solving event. With Halloween surprises!
www.conspirecreative.com/event-detail...
Trick or Treat: Author Outreach & Connection Edition | Conspire Creative
A 60-minute power hour combining expert frameworks with community problem-solving. Learn Sharon's daily promotion system and proven outreach formula, then bring your challenge (TRICK) and get solution...
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October 30, 2025 at 3:56 PM
"A must-have resource for every author. This book is teeming with valuable and proven strategies that will help authors go from struggling to thriving. If you’re an author, get a copy of this book and read everything it has to offer. It will change your life, your career, and your author journey."
“The Profitable Author” by Sharon Woodhouse
For authors, the main source of income they can count on as far as their books are concerned is royalties, right? Wrong. Sharon Woodhouse is here to tell you that while royalties can be a source of…
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October 29, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Author Business Coaching Minute.

Please take a minute and RSVP for tomorrow's free, one-hour Author Outreach How-To & Connections Zoom call. Fun, Halloween-themed, packed with treats. We love to meet all authors...aspiring, new, established!
#bookmarketing #authorstrategy #authorgoals
Trick or Treat: Author Outreach and Connection Edition
You're invited to a free Halloween-themed power hour for authors. RSVP today!
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October 29, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Author Business Coaching Minute.

Make your author business life easier by building off the checklists, templates, and formulas forged from the experience of others.
#authorbusiness #authorgoals #authorstrategy #bookmarketing #authorincome #profitableauthor #authorgoals #authorevents
Checklists, Templates, and Formulas for Authors - Index of Articles
Start with these existing outlines and refine them for your own author business
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October 28, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Author Business Coaching Minute.

Find an area of your author business that could benefit from one of the three senses of the concept of possibilities thinking.
#authorcoach #authorcoaching #authorbusinesscoaching #possibilitythinking #coachyourself #authormindset #authorgoals #authorbusiness
Week 15 - Author Business Coaching Challenge - Possibility Thinking
Explore the practicality of its abundant spirit
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October 27, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Author Business Coaching Minute.

Free Author Outreach How-To Call, Thursday, October 30. One Hour. Bring your challenges (Tricks) and get solutions, ideas, leads, and advice (Treats). All welcome. Questions about podcasts, sales pitches, media outreach, events, and more? Bring them here.
Trick or Treat: Author Outreach and Connection Edition
You're invited to a free Halloween-themed power hour for authors. RSVP today!
conspirecreative.substack.com
October 26, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Reposted by The Profitable Author
Author Business Coaching Minute.

Even Authors Can Trick or Treat!

Free 60-min event, October 30, 1-2pm CT

This Halloween, bring your TRICK (biggest outreach challenge) and get TREATS (solutions, connections, contacts) from a community of fellow authors.

RSVP & Zoom link in article. Please share.
Trick or Treat: Author Outreach and Connection Edition
You're invited to a free Halloween-themed power hour for authors. RSVP today!
conspirecreative.substack.com
October 23, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Author Business Coaching Minute.

An index to all of our sub-indexes of articles. What do you and your author business need support, knowledge, or inspiration on today? Find it below with a couple of clicks.
#authorbusiness #authorincome #profitableauthor #bookmarketing #authorgoals #authorstrategy
Master Index of Articles
Find what you need on The Profitable Author/An Author Business You Love site!
conspirecreative.substack.com
October 24, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Author Business Coaching Minute.

Even Authors Can Trick or Treat!

Free 60-min event, October 30, 1-2pm CT

This Halloween, bring your TRICK (biggest outreach challenge) and get TREATS (solutions, connections, contacts) from a community of fellow authors.

RSVP & Zoom link in article. Please share.
Trick or Treat: Author Outreach and Connection Edition
You're invited to a free Halloween-themed power hour for authors. RSVP today!
conspirecreative.substack.com
October 23, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Author Business Coaching Minute.

Best Fest Ever. What you can learn from author Michael Haupt about one-by-one and face-to-face sales.
#bookselling #authorevents #bookfests #bookmarketing #bookpromotion #authorincome #authorstrategy #authorbusiness #profitableauthor
Best Book Fest Year Ever: One-by-One and Face-to-Face Sales
A guest post and case study by author Michael Haupt
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October 22, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Author Business Coaching Minute.

Take a minute to review the subscribe option on your author website. Does it need an upgrade?
#authorwebsites #authorgoals #authorstrategy #authormarketing #bookmarketing #authorbusiness
Author Website Subscribe Options
Grow your email list mini-series, part 1
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October 21, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Author Business Coaching Minute.

Find the slowing it down hacks that work best for you and your author plans.
#authorcoach #authorcoaching #coachyourself #slowingdown #authormindset #authorbusiness
Week 14 - Author Business Coaching Challenge - Slowing It Down
A faster route to all good things
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October 20, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Author Business Coaching Minute.

The mathematics of meaningful connections: why book fair, festival, author events, and back-of-the room sales outreach are numbers games worth playing.
#authorevents #authorgoals #authorstrategy #authorcoaching #authorbusiness #authorbusinesscoaching #authormindset
Everything Everywhere All at Once for Authors
Layering outreach on to everything to increase probabilities of success
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October 17, 2025 at 6:03 PM