15 + 15 = An Author Business Infrastructure and Next Week's Free Mini-Workshop

Published 3 months ago • 1 min read

Hello Author Friends,

Next Tuesday, August 26, is the fourth installment in my free 6-part summer series devoted to the top 6 things I write and teach about to boost author income, author businesses, author goals, and author satisfaction.

Please join us! I'll be talking about 15 types of author income and 15 common author business model templates. These aren't theoretical things, they are the actual things I've seen again and again (that is, have seen work, again and again) in my 25+ years at this.

The workshop takes place at City Lit Books, 2523 N Kedzie Blvd, in Logan Square, 6:30pm-7:30pm.

RSVPs are requested by not requiredhttps://www.conspirecreative.com/events

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