Creating a Sustainable, Income-Generating Author Life You Love, Step 1 of 7: Know It’s Possible

Test this working framework and gain your own firsthand experience

Sharon Woodhouse
4 min readJul 10, 2023
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First up: Know it’s possible. Building a sustainable, income-generating author life, career, sideline, part-time enterprise, or full-time business is possible.

It’s not possible “in theory.”

It’s possible because I’ve seen it again and again and my framework (Creating a Profitable Author Life You Love, Steps 1 through 7) is based on decades of testing, observing, tweaking, and measuring.

But back to theory for a minute.

Grounded theory is a qualitative research method used to generate theory and theoretical frameworks based on the ongoing and simultaneous collection, analysis, and systematic organizing of data.

So, while the framework I put forth does not meet the formal rigors of social science research, it evolved from a similar informal practice, from the rigors of the make-or-break…

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Sharon Woodhouse

Sharon Woodhouse is an author coach, publishing consultant, and project manager. She was an indie book publisher for 25 years. www.conspirecreative.com