WRITE-LIVELIHOOD: How to Craft a Writer's Business Plan (The Clear Next Step & a Game-Changer for Independent Authors, Publishers, & Entrepreneurs) (Enterprising Writer Book 1)

A Business Plan is a Place to Think

You have stories to tell and ideas to share. This book shows you how to turn them into a livelihood worth your investment of time, talent, and energy.

Offered here is the Early Adopter’s Edition, v1.1.1, of WRITE-LIVELIHOOD: HOW TO CRAFT A WRITER’S BUSINESS PLAN, a 164-page, 45,000-word guidebook to business plans made easy, the first in a series of four Enterprising Writer books, each focused on improving business practices of those of us who write books for a living.

WRITE-LIVELIHOOD Will Help You Jump Start Your Self-Publishing Business, Control Your Intellectual Property, Profit from Niche Opportunities in Traditional Publishing, & Keep the Emphasis on Writing.

This book is about planning your success as a full-time author. It offers a direct approach, going steadily from moonlight adventure to earning a living from the books you write. As a full-length treatise on a vital subject, it is unique. If your interest is writing books for a living, this one’s for you.

What’s Unique About this Book?

Two things:

1. WRITE-LIVELIHOOD focuses on growing your writerly business as a whole—an enterprise-wide perspective. It’s not about a business plan for a single book (and shouldn’t be unless you intend to be a one-book author).
2. It strikes a balance between crass business advice and the pursuit of writing for its own sake, out of love for the profession.

The balance arises from WRITE-LIVELIHOOD’s author being a former small press publisher who later pursued an economic development career (often counseling entrepreneurs). In WRITE-LIVELIHOOD he draws on both skill sets—using ways of thinking seldom joined—to create a new tool for authors, publishers, and entrepreneurs.

Luck and talent are great, but this book is about something more essential: a business practice that works—based on a modicum of talent and a pinch of luck. It’s about creating your own success on purpose using persistence, desire, and a strategic understanding of your role as a writer, increasingly turned publisher, and business strategist.

Top Twelve Reasons You Need a Business Plan:

1. You can’t afford to be a part time writer when, with a successful plan, you can go full-time and make a living doing what you love.
2. This Golden Era of Self-Publishing may be a window of opportunity that closes on those who wait.
3. The choice, to write full-time or not, should be yours, not left to fate.
4. There’s so much at stake, a bigger commitment makes sense.
5. You need strategies so strong and so you-as-a-writer they sizzle in your mind.
6. The biggest mistake authors make is writing the wrong book for the wrong reasons.
7. You need to set priorities strategically which requires an enterprise-wide perspective.
8. You need to strike the right balance between writing and marketing.
9. You need to thoroughly understand the business implications of self vs. traditional vs. hybrid publishing—short- and long-term.
10. You need to identify your potential audience and know how to reach it.
11. You need the positive impact a business plan has on productivity and the ability to multiply one product into several.
12. You need the very best advice you can possibly give yourself—and a way to call it forth at key moments of decision.

In short, you need to deeply understand and consistently pursue your self-interest as a author.

Act Now

Working your way step-by-step through WRITE-LIVELIHOOD will put you in charge of your business and artistic interests as few writers have been in the long history of letters.

Click the “BUY” button at the top of this page and you will soon write with new clarity, energy, and purpose, backed by a business plan—the power tool of the mind and heart.