Author Income Streams, 15 of 15: Salary and Wages

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Hear me out: Your current salary and wages are a critical type of author income — for many, the bedrock on which you will build a solid, sustainable author business.

• 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.
• This is the income that is providing the cushion and security necessary for the rest of your author income types to find their footing in your life and become part of your emerging business.

In creating an author business model that works right now from where you’re at and can take you where you’re going, you can’t discount the importance of a steady paycheck from the day job/s — or even variable funds from gig work — that can help you:

• transition to a part-time author business;
• transition to a full-time author business; and/or
• otherwise intentionally support your goals as an author and book promoter.

By thinking of this income as part of your author business — the enterprise of you as an author, you will have a complete picture of where you are, a picture that can be modified as desired over time. Perhaps…