The ABCs of Growing Your Author Business

Always Be…

Sharon Woodhouse
3 min readMay 3, 2024
Photo by Rivage on Unsplash.

Keep on keeping on. Keep doing all the things that work and matter for promoting and selling books, for building and sustaining a profitable author business, for finessing the author life of your dreams.

Always be…

A — Affirming the Authorpreneur’s Creed!

B — Building a sustainable author life you love.

C — Customizing your sales and marketing approaches to fit your life.

D — Doing 5 things a day every day to promote your book, expertise, experiences, and author status.

E — Expanding — your body of work, your repertoire of skills, your network, your sense of what is possible, your vision for your author life and business, and — especially — your comfort zone, which makes the rest of it possible.

F — Fast-forwarding your success. You’re not obligated to go slowly. Or incrementally. Figure out how to get to the next level sooner.

G — Growing your email list.

H — Heeding the business advice I give authors on repeat.

I — Improving — your craft, your marketing, your selling abilities, your relationships, your business processes, your mindset, your expectations.

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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