Business for Authors: How to Be an Author Entrepreneur

By The Creative Penn (Joanna Penn)

Everything you need to run a business as an author.

I'm excited to share Business for Authors: How to be an Author Entrepreneur with you, as it contains everything I have learned from 13 years of being a business consultant, and 6 years of being an author.

This is not a book on creativity or the craft of writing.

My aim is to take the result of your creativity into the realm of actually paying the bills.

To take you from being an author to running a business as an author.

I was a business consultant for 13 years before I gave up my job in September 2011 to become a full-time author-entrepreneur. I have worked for large corporates and small businesses, implementing financial systems across Europe and Asia Pacific.

I’ve also started a number of my own businesses – a scuba dive charter boat in New Zealand, a customized travel website, a property investment portfolio in Australia as well as my freelance consultancy. I’ve failed a lot and learned many lessons in my entrepreneurial life and I share them all in this book.

In the last six years of being an author, through tempestuous changes in the publishing world, I have learned the business side of being a writer and I now earn a good living as an author-entrepreneur. I’m an author because it is my passion and my joy … but also because it can be a business in this age of global and digital opportunity.