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Your education as an authorpreneur starts here with thorough, quality content — including in-depth free guides, popular videos, premium courses, and more.
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Author Business Plan
Looking for a more “writer-friendly” planning process? You're in luck! I’ve designed a business plan framework with the creative entrepreneur in mind.
Author Brand Strategy
Pull together the visual, written, and in-person brand elements that support your brand story, the needs of your readers, and your personal objectives for your writing career.
Audience Building
The more you know about your readers, the more effective your sales and marketing efforts will be. It’s worth the effort to find out: who they are, what books they buy, and why they buy what they do.
Author Website
Whether you are just starting your writing journey, or have been in the business for a while, having a professional and effective author website is essential.
Launch Planning
Carefully preparing, timing, and executing just the right mix of launch activities to propel your new book out into the world is no simple task. Leverage your launch to create momentum for your book.
Marketing + Promotion
Create your marketing plan-of-action by bringing together your target audience, your author brand, your market research, and your content strategy (including your promotions and launch plans).
PREMIUM online courses
Learn proven concepts and strategies to grow your author brand and business at a time, place, and pace that works for you. More courses are in the works, so whether it’s now or later, I look forward to seeing you inside!
TARGETED one-on-one consulting
Let’s work together to build momentum, enthusiasm, and a thriving audience around your work. If you’re looking for help on a specific project or problem, I have limited spots available for targeted, one-hour consulting sessions to help you discover strategies and resources to work through your specific problem.
POPULAR VIDEOS
Free videos with in-depth strategy and skills training for authors. Videos and free workshops are among my favourite ways to train authors on important concepts and skills for their writing business.
WHAT PEOPLE SAY...
It was such a pleasure talking with you and receiving your excellent advice. You clarified my focus in such a helpful way, that I look forward to thinking through my "brand" and moulding it to better represent me.
Donna Murray
Author of "For Better or Worse", A Ginger Barnes Mystery
Thank you for all your hard work and the beautiful products you create. Truly, they are inspiring to me as an author-hopeful and as a creator of educational resources. Your quality of work, both physical quality and the quality of your content, is what I aspire to create in all my products.
Cathleen Elise Rossiter
founder atCathleenElise.com
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