Checking in on Your Author Life with Leo Tolstoy's Magnificence. Your ABC Nudge, vol. 67


A Magnificence Checklist.

"One can live magnificently in this world, if one knows how to work and how to love, to work for the person one loves and to love one's work."—Leo Tolstoy

It’s true. I do live magnificently for loving books, loving work, and working for the authors who make that possible. So, merci beaucoup.

But living magnificently, for me, has also come from taking on the challenges and long-game journey of entrepreneurship. It’s ongoing self-development and real-world engagement, acumen, and mano a mano rolled into one.

And that’s why I encourage you to meet your author goals by committing to an author business of your preferred size and flavor. Stick with it and it will be enriching and magnificent in ways you can’t yet imagine.

Tolstoy checklist:

  • Do you know how to work?
  • Do you know how to love?
  • Do you love your work?
  • Do you work for someone you love—Readers? Learners? Those in your field? Who?

Getting Your Book Seen and Sold

I talk with Claudine Wolk on her Getting Your Book Seen and Sold podcast about the 5 Things a Day book promotion plan you can start today...and a lot more. Have a listen.


Join Us!

Join me and Conspire Creative for the launch of The Profitable Author: 1,001 Ways to Build a Business You Love Around Your Books, at The Book Cellar in Lincoln Square, the neighborhood where started and ran my first publishing company, Lake Claremont Press, in 1996.

We're providing the treats and answers to all your author income/author business questions. Wine and other beverages available for purchase. Sign up for a free 30-minute call to discuss your author goals.

Sharon Woodhouse, Conspire Creative

3150 N Lake Shore Dr, Chicago, IL 60657
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ABC (Author Business Coaching) Nudge

Author coach and 25+ yrs indie book publisher. I help authors create enterprises they love around their book/s, experience, and knowledge and send a brief 3x/month email newsletter to support the creation of profitable, sustainable author businesses.

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