The Profitable Author
@profitableauthor.bsky.social
Sharon Woodhouse, former indie book publisher, owner of Conspire Creative (https://conspirecreative.substack.com/), and author of award-winning "The Profitable Author: 1,001 Ways to Build a Business You Love Around Your Books" (profitableauthorbook.com).
I talk to Andrea Hines and Ruth Griffin on their AuthorsUp podcast about being a profitable author, crafting the right business model for you, and lots, lots more.
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November 7, 2025 at 2:44 PM
I talk to Andrea Hines and Ruth Griffin on their AuthorsUp podcast about being a profitable author, crafting the right business model for you, and lots, lots more.
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Author Business Coaching Minute.
Rumor has it that the owner of an iconic, popular downtown Chicago restaurant let an author friend show & sell his book table-to-table one night last month.
The question is, do you have such a business owner friend! Attention customers...
#authorgoals #booksales
Rumor has it that the owner of an iconic, popular downtown Chicago restaurant let an author friend show & sell his book table-to-table one night last month.
The question is, do you have such a business owner friend! Attention customers...
#authorgoals #booksales
October 16, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Author Business Coaching Minute.
Rumor has it that the owner of an iconic, popular downtown Chicago restaurant let an author friend show & sell his book table-to-table one night last month.
The question is, do you have such a business owner friend! Attention customers...
#authorgoals #booksales
Rumor has it that the owner of an iconic, popular downtown Chicago restaurant let an author friend show & sell his book table-to-table one night last month.
The question is, do you have such a business owner friend! Attention customers...
#authorgoals #booksales
Author Business Coaching Minute.
Consider the possibility that there's no sacrific, suffering, or trade-offs to have what you want as an author? What does that look like? How does that feel?
#authorgoals #authorbusiness #authorcoaching #authorcoach #profitableauthor #authormindset #authorstrategy
Consider the possibility that there's no sacrific, suffering, or trade-offs to have what you want as an author? What does that look like? How does that feel?
#authorgoals #authorbusiness #authorcoaching #authorcoach #profitableauthor #authormindset #authorstrategy
September 23, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Author Business Coaching Minute.
Consider the possibility that there's no sacrific, suffering, or trade-offs to have what you want as an author? What does that look like? How does that feel?
#authorgoals #authorbusiness #authorcoaching #authorcoach #profitableauthor #authormindset #authorstrategy
Consider the possibility that there's no sacrific, suffering, or trade-offs to have what you want as an author? What does that look like? How does that feel?
#authorgoals #authorbusiness #authorcoaching #authorcoach #profitableauthor #authormindset #authorstrategy
Tonight! Final mini-workshop of the summer at City Newsstand in Chicago's Portage Park neighborhood. What's YOUR biggest obstacle to a sustainable living from your craft and what are some workarounds to that? Join us!
September 23, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Tonight! Final mini-workshop of the summer at City Newsstand in Chicago's Portage Park neighborhood. What's YOUR biggest obstacle to a sustainable living from your craft and what are some workarounds to that? Join us!
Author Business Coaching Minute.
Passionate defense of the actual First Amendment matters to our author lives (and beyond).
Passionate defense of the actual First Amendment matters to our author lives (and beyond).
September 19, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Author Business Coaching Minute.
Passionate defense of the actual First Amendment matters to our author lives (and beyond).
Passionate defense of the actual First Amendment matters to our author lives (and beyond).
"Distinguished Favorite" in the NYC Big Book Award Writing/Publishing category. I share because it's cool to win an award, but mostly I want you to use this book because IT WILL MAKE A DIFFFERENCE in how you relate to book marketing and the business of being an author.
September 19, 2025 at 1:57 PM
"Distinguished Favorite" in the NYC Big Book Award Writing/Publishing category. I share because it's cool to win an award, but mostly I want you to use this book because IT WILL MAKE A DIFFFERENCE in how you relate to book marketing and the business of being an author.
There are many paths to success in the world of books. Let us help you find yours...
September 13, 2025 at 1:39 PM
There are many paths to success in the world of books. Let us help you find yours...
"The Profitable Author: 1,001 Ways to Build a Business You Love Around Your Books" just won its 3rd award. The Reader's Favorite Gold Medal in the Non-Fiction - Writing/Publishing category.
September 9, 2025 at 8:23 PM
"The Profitable Author: 1,001 Ways to Build a Business You Love Around Your Books" just won its 3rd award. The Reader's Favorite Gold Medal in the Non-Fiction - Writing/Publishing category.
Tonight at Chicago's After-Words Bookstore in River North, 6pm-7:30pm. Come learn why you should build an author business/take an entrepreneurial approach to your author career and how you can start today! Relevant for all creative workers and freelancers.
September 9, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Tonight at Chicago's After-Words Bookstore in River North, 6pm-7:30pm. Come learn why you should build an author business/take an entrepreneurial approach to your author career and how you can start today! Relevant for all creative workers and freelancers.
Author Business Coaching Minute.
Today is National Literacy Day. How can you use that to promote literarcy, reading, and possibly your books and authorship?
Today is National Literacy Day. How can you use that to promote literarcy, reading, and possibly your books and authorship?
September 8, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Author Business Coaching Minute.
Today is National Literacy Day. How can you use that to promote literarcy, reading, and possibly your books and authorship?
Today is National Literacy Day. How can you use that to promote literarcy, reading, and possibly your books and authorship?
Author Business Coaching Minute.
What about an "author business" stirs up hesitancy or uncertainty in you? What about it makes your defenses go up?
#authorcoach #authorcoaching #authormindset #authorgoals #authorstrategy #authorbusiness
What about an "author business" stirs up hesitancy or uncertainty in you? What about it makes your defenses go up?
#authorcoach #authorcoaching #authormindset #authorgoals #authorstrategy #authorbusiness
September 6, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Author Business Coaching Minute.
What about an "author business" stirs up hesitancy or uncertainty in you? What about it makes your defenses go up?
#authorcoach #authorcoaching #authormindset #authorgoals #authorstrategy #authorbusiness
What about an "author business" stirs up hesitancy or uncertainty in you? What about it makes your defenses go up?
#authorcoach #authorcoaching #authormindset #authorgoals #authorstrategy #authorbusiness
Seen at my City Lit Books event last night: Blind Date with a Book!
August 27, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Seen at my City Lit Books event last night: Blind Date with a Book!
Author Business Coaching Minute.
What's the relationship, for you, between what you're resisting as an author and what outcomes you want for your books and your author life?
#authorcoach #authorcoaching #authormindset #authorgoals #authorstrategy #bookmarketing #authorbusiness #profitableauthor
What's the relationship, for you, between what you're resisting as an author and what outcomes you want for your books and your author life?
#authorcoach #authorcoaching #authormindset #authorgoals #authorstrategy #bookmarketing #authorbusiness #profitableauthor
August 22, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Author Business Coaching Minute.
What's the relationship, for you, between what you're resisting as an author and what outcomes you want for your books and your author life?
#authorcoach #authorcoaching #authormindset #authorgoals #authorstrategy #bookmarketing #authorbusiness #profitableauthor
What's the relationship, for you, between what you're resisting as an author and what outcomes you want for your books and your author life?
#authorcoach #authorcoaching #authormindset #authorgoals #authorstrategy #bookmarketing #authorbusiness #profitableauthor
Learn the 15 types of author income and 15 author busines model templates at my next free mini-workshop, next Tuesday, August 26, 6:30-7:30pm, at City Lit Books, Logan Square, Chicago.
#authorincome #authorbusiness #profitableauthor
#authorincome #authorbusiness #profitableauthor
August 19, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Learn the 15 types of author income and 15 author busines model templates at my next free mini-workshop, next Tuesday, August 26, 6:30-7:30pm, at City Lit Books, Logan Square, Chicago.
#authorincome #authorbusiness #profitableauthor
#authorincome #authorbusiness #profitableauthor
Author Business Coaching Minute.
What book marketing habits can you commit to, show up for--even on your toughest day?
#authorcoach #authorcoaching #authormindset #authorgoals #authorhabits #authorstrategy #bookmarketing #authorbusiness #profitableauthor
What book marketing habits can you commit to, show up for--even on your toughest day?
#authorcoach #authorcoaching #authormindset #authorgoals #authorhabits #authorstrategy #bookmarketing #authorbusiness #profitableauthor
August 17, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Author Business Coaching Minute.
What book marketing habits can you commit to, show up for--even on your toughest day?
#authorcoach #authorcoaching #authormindset #authorgoals #authorhabits #authorstrategy #bookmarketing #authorbusiness #profitableauthor
What book marketing habits can you commit to, show up for--even on your toughest day?
#authorcoach #authorcoaching #authormindset #authorgoals #authorhabits #authorstrategy #bookmarketing #authorbusiness #profitableauthor
TONIGHT! Join us at Passages for a free mini-workshop on the 8 proven areas that successful authors tap for sales and marketing approaches that are easier, more fun, less annoying, a better fit, more lucrative, and more sustainable. Wine and books available for purchase.
August 12, 2025 at 3:54 PM
TONIGHT! Join us at Passages for a free mini-workshop on the 8 proven areas that successful authors tap for sales and marketing approaches that are easier, more fun, less annoying, a better fit, more lucrative, and more sustainable. Wine and books available for purchase.
Grab a glass of wine at Passages on Tuesday, 8/12, and learn 8 proven ways to customize your sales and marketing approaches to boost your author income, exposure, and satisfaction.
August 9, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Grab a glass of wine at Passages on Tuesday, 8/12, and learn 8 proven ways to customize your sales and marketing approaches to boost your author income, exposure, and satisfaction.
Author Business Coaching Minute.
How can you have x and y in your author business? Success and ease. Money and time. Craft and commerce. Imagine the world where your x and your x are both possible. What does it look like? #authorcoaching
How can you have x and y in your author business? Success and ease. Money and time. Craft and commerce. Imagine the world where your x and your x are both possible. What does it look like? #authorcoaching
August 5, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Author Business Coaching Minute.
How can you have x and y in your author business? Success and ease. Money and time. Craft and commerce. Imagine the world where your x and your x are both possible. What does it look like? #authorcoaching
How can you have x and y in your author business? Success and ease. Money and time. Craft and commerce. Imagine the world where your x and your x are both possible. What does it look like? #authorcoaching
Author Business Coaching Minute.
What if you could skip small, gradual steps in your author business--the baby steps--and arrive somewhere better for you? Where would that be?
#authorcoach #authorcoaching #authormindset #authorgoals #authorstrategy #authorbusiness
What if you could skip small, gradual steps in your author business--the baby steps--and arrive somewhere better for you? Where would that be?
#authorcoach #authorcoaching #authormindset #authorgoals #authorstrategy #authorbusiness
August 3, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Author Business Coaching Minute.
What if you could skip small, gradual steps in your author business--the baby steps--and arrive somewhere better for you? Where would that be?
#authorcoach #authorcoaching #authormindset #authorgoals #authorstrategy #authorbusiness
What if you could skip small, gradual steps in your author business--the baby steps--and arrive somewhere better for you? Where would that be?
#authorcoach #authorcoaching #authormindset #authorgoals #authorstrategy #authorbusiness
Author Business Coaching Minute.
What's a decision you've been trying to make for your author business? What's getting in the way of making it? What do you need to make that decision?
#authorcoach #authorcoaching #authorbusiness #authorgoals #authorstrategy
What's a decision you've been trying to make for your author business? What's getting in the way of making it? What do you need to make that decision?
#authorcoach #authorcoaching #authorbusiness #authorgoals #authorstrategy
August 2, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Author Business Coaching Minute.
What's a decision you've been trying to make for your author business? What's getting in the way of making it? What do you need to make that decision?
#authorcoach #authorcoaching #authorbusiness #authorgoals #authorstrategy
What's a decision you've been trying to make for your author business? What's getting in the way of making it? What do you need to make that decision?
#authorcoach #authorcoaching #authorbusiness #authorgoals #authorstrategy
High heat and a high chance of rain means tonight's a great time to come to the inviting space (AC!) that is Volumes Bookcafe and learn some things that will make all the difference to your author trajectory. Guaranteed. Looking forward to seeing you and hearing your challenges and questions.
July 29, 2025 at 3:56 PM
High heat and a high chance of rain means tonight's a great time to come to the inviting space (AC!) that is Volumes Bookcafe and learn some things that will make all the difference to your author trajectory. Guaranteed. Looking forward to seeing you and hearing your challenges and questions.
Next up FREE mini-workshop for authors, writers, creatives, and others wanting to better monetize their work: 7 Pillars of a Sustainabble, Income-Generating Author Life You Love, at Volumes Bookcafe in Wicker Park, 1373 N Milwaukee, Ave, Tuesday, July 29, 6:30-8pm. @volumesbooks.bsky.social
July 23, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Next up FREE mini-workshop for authors, writers, creatives, and others wanting to better monetize their work: 7 Pillars of a Sustainabble, Income-Generating Author Life You Love, at Volumes Bookcafe in Wicker Park, 1373 N Milwaukee, Ave, Tuesday, July 29, 6:30-8pm. @volumesbooks.bsky.social
Learned today that "The Profitable Author" won the International Firebird Book Award in the Writing/Publishing Category. Check it out (thank you) and let me help you change your author life.
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July 16, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Learned today that "The Profitable Author" won the International Firebird Book Award in the Writing/Publishing Category. Check it out (thank you) and let me help you change your author life.
amzn.to/40lcdV3
amzn.to/40lcdV3