The Best-Selling Author Audiobooks of All Time

Struggle. Doubt. Fear. Why aren’t your books selling? How can you improve your craft? You’re confused, feeling isolated, and not sure what you need to do to take your author career to the next level. You’re not afraid of the work, just confused about what it is you need to be doing to live the author life. Enter, the mastermind. No matter how experienced, independent, and motivated of a writer you may be, forming or joining an author mastermind can accelerate your career and get you past the tipping point.

Working with a group keeps you accountable to your goals, gives you support when you’re feeling hopeless, inspires and challenges you to set your expectations higher, and creates a valuable feedback group to push your work to a new level—not to mention opens doors to new marketing opportunities. Simply put, you’ll write more, write better, and sell significantly more books while having more fun doing it. Ben Franklin knew the secret. So did J.R.R. Tolkien. And now, so will you. Discover the Secret Powers of the Author Mastermind with J. Thorn. With 25 years in education and experience guiding thousands of students to new, personal heights, Thorn reveals how to supercharge your career with accountability, collaboration, feedback, support, structure, and more. Learn how meeting in a small group with dedicated peers can propel you forward in ways you could never achieve on your own. Whether you’re looking to join an existing mastermind group or start and manage one of your own, the Secret Powers of the Author Mastermind will show you how—written by a professional who is trusted by New York Times bestselling authors like Chris Brogan and Joanna Penn. Don’t go it alone. Transform from struggling writer to career author by leveraging the Secret Powers of the Author Mastermind. Download and start reading now.

Twenty of America's bestselling authors share tricks, tips, and secrets of the successful writing life. Anyone who's ever sat down to write a novel or even a story knows how exhilarating and heartbreaking writing can be. So what makes writers stick with it? In Why We Write, twenty well-known authors candidly share what keeps them going and what they love most—and least—about their vocation. Contributing authors include:. Isabel Allende. David Baldacci. Jennifer Egan. James Frey. Sue Grafton. Sara Gruen. Kathryn Harrison. Gish Jen. Sebastian Junger. Mary Karr. Michael Lewis. Armistead Maupin. Terry McMillan. Rick Moody.

Walter Mosley. Susan Orlean. Ann Patchett. Jodi Picoult. Jane Smiley. Meg Wolitzer.

Are you ready to take the next step in your author journey?Art for the sake of art is important. Writing for the love of it, or to create something beautiful on the page, is absolutely worthwhile and critical to expand the sum of human expression. But I’m not here to talk about creativity or the craft of writing in this book. My aim is to take the result of your creativity into the realm of actually paying the bills. To take you from being an author to running a business as an author.I was a business consultant for 13 years before I gave up my job in September 2011 to become a full-time author-entrepreneur.

I worked for large corporates and small businesses, implementing financial systems across Europe and Asia Pacific. I’ve also started a number of my own businesses — a scuba dive charter boat in New Zealand, a customized travel website, a property investment portfolio in Australia as well as my freelance consultancy. I’ve failed a lot and learned many lessons in my entrepreneurial life and I share them all in this book. In the last six years of being an author, through tempestuous changes in the publishing world, I've learned the business side of being a writer and I now earn a good living as an author-entrepreneur. I’m an author because it's my passion and my joy but also because it's a viable business in this age of global and digital opportunity. In the book, you will learn:Part 1: From Author To Entrepreneur. The arc of the author’s journey, definition of an author-entrepreneur, deciding on your definition of success. Plus/ should you start a company? Part 2: Products and Services. How you can turn one manuscript into multiple streams of income by exploiting all the different rights, various business models for authors and how to evaluate them, information on contracts, copyright and piracy. Plus/ putting together a production plan. Part 3: Employees, Suppliers and Contractors. The team you need to run your business. Your role as author and what you’re committing to, as well as co-writing. Editors, agents and publishers, translators, book designers and formatters, audiobook narrators, book-keeping and accounting, virtual assistants. Plus/ how to manage your team. Part 4: Customers. In-depth questions to help you understand who your customers are and what they want, as well as customer service options for authors. Part 5: Sales and Distribution. How to sell through distributors and your options, plus all the information you need to sell direct. ISBNs and publishing imprints ”" do you need them? Plus/ your options for pricing. Part 6: Marketing. Key overarching marketing concepts. Book-based marketing including cover, back copy and sales pages on the distributors. Author-based marketing around building your platform, and customer-based marketing around your niche audience and targeted media. Part 7: Financials. Changing your mindset about money, and assessing where you are now vs where you want to be. Revenues of the author business and how to increase that revenue. Costs of the author business and funding your startup. Banking, PayPal, accounting, reporting, tax and estate planning. Part 8: Strategy and Planning. Developing your strategy and business plan. Managing your time and developing professional habits. The long term view and the process for becoming a full-time author. Plus/ looking after yourself. Part 9: Next Steps. Questions from the book to help you work out everything to do with your business, plus encouragement for your next steps. Appendices, Workbook and Bonus Downloads including a workbook and business plan template. If you want to go from being an author, to running a business as an author, download a sample or buy now.