Hello Author Friends,

My message today is: Plan ahead for what you want 2026 to be for your author business. Business. Not craft, not career, not life.

What should your author business be next year to be the proper support for you author goals and larger author vision?

What sort of author business foundation can help you reach the most readers and serve them with your distinct flavor of wordsmithing, emotion-stirring, entertainment, education, inspiration, enrichment, edification? Whatever it is you offer.

LEARN & PRACTICE

My challenge for you is to find your own route to setting up an author business, learning business at your own pace, and discovering how a business mindset and businesss principles can prop up and stabilize your author efforts. And increase your income, visibility, and overall satisfaction with being a author.

1. Remember, if kids can start businesses, so can you.
2. Unsure? Think of learning business as a "hobby." You decide the intensity of your approach.
3. ​Be willing to learn it.
4. Because learning businessess as you go from where you're at with what you have is a pillar of a sustainable, income-generating author life you LOVE.
5. And, here's why the entrepreneurial approach to authorship is best for all the reasons, even if for you, "it's not about the money."

QUESTIONS?

1. Sign up for a One Hour Call.
2. Buy a packackage of Email Advice on Demand.
3. Buy a month of a Substack subscription and email me directly.
4. FREE: Go to my Substack, search for your topic, and leave your question as a comment at the end of an article.

NEWS

The clock is ticking—Q4 is where book sales explode. That is, industry wide…will you and your books be getting yours? With the holidays rapidly approaching, gift-givers are filling their shopping carts, algorithms are favoring fresh momentum, and readers are preparing for a season of prolonged cozy reading in between long winter naps. Now is the time to double down on your marketing efforts: revisit your book descriptions, launch a fitting email campaign (4 well-conceived newsletters by EOY, perhaps?), plan seasonal engagement on social media, create strategic partnerships and bundles where possible, and don’t forget your OUTREACH commitments and 5 THINGS A DAY.

The authors who meet their Q4 goals aren’t necessarily the ones with the most resources—they’re the ones who keep showing up and finding ways to leverage the season’s built-in buying energy. Don’t fizzle out in face of holiday opportunities. Focus, execute, and finish the year strong.

NOW HERE

Start 2026 with a business plan and a business on a new track.

From Published to Profitable: The Author's Business Accelerator is an 11-week program for authors with at least one published book that includes:

3 weeks of private coaching calls

8 weeks of group coaching

Email support in between session

1 copy of The Profitable Author

A one-year subscription to The Profitable Author / An Author Business You Love Substack.

Open to the first 8 people to register. Learn more and register.

REMINDERS

We have a free resources page for wherever you are on the author business path. Click here.

All the best,

Sharon

Sharon Woodhouse, owner, Conspire Creative

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