An entrepreneurial approach is the road to author fulfillment + Printers Row Lit Fest Weekend

Published 2 months ago • 1 min read

Hello Author Friends,

If you'll be at Chicago's Printers Row Lit Fest this weekend, stop by and say hi! I'll be selling and talking about The Profitable Author: 1,001 Ways to Build a Business You Love Around Your Books from the Society of Midland Authors Booth, Tent NN. That's the westernmost booth on Polk Street, just east of the stage.

Come by and sign up for a free 30-minute strategy session and ask me your most vexing author business and book marketing questions. What's challenging you lately?

Next Tuesday, September 9, is the fifth 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! Find out why you should take an entrepreneurial approach to your author goals and how you can start your author business TODAY.

The workshop takes place at After-Words Bookstore, 23 E. Illinois St., in River North, 6:00pm-7:30pm.

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

Most Read Articles

Links to my most read articles in the last two weeks:

Why You Should Have an Author Business and Take an Entrepreneurial Approach to Authorship Even If, For You, "It's Not About the Money": A growing list of reasons

Anatomy of a Failed Standing Room Only Author Event: The author could have walked away with hundreds of dollars in sales…but didn’t

All the best,

Sharon

Sharon Woodhouse, owner, Conspire Creative

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