An Authorpreneur Creed
An evolving pledge for authors building holistic, enterprising careers and businesses
I am a good steward of my author life/career/business.
Because a sustainable profitable author life I love is possible.
I take myself and my books and my work seriously so that others do too.
In the spirit of we teach others how to treat us…
I do 5 things a day to promote my books, author status, experience, and expertise.
The discipline that helps build momentum, your author identity, your network, the sustainability, and your author business.
I understand that I may have to think and do differently, evolve, and/or learn new skills and approaches to accomplish my author goals.
And I will remember that if someone else is having the author experience and success I want for myself and my books, that I can stop and consider: perhaps there is something I don’t yet know or am not yet doing and I will find out what those things may be so that I can change my situation and outcomes…
I am in the meaning-making sector.
Whether you write and publish fiction or nonfiction, cookbooks or children’s books, scholarly and professional titles, humor, travel, memoir…or any of your books not covered in the listed categories.
I am an ambassador for a future economy where creativity, knowledge, and meaning-making activities are expanding.
Creativity and meaning-making are among the human advantages that have a growing role in the future economy.
I accept and enjoy the agency, freedoms, and responsibility of entrepreneurship.
Explore defensive entrepreneurship; customize a path that’s right for you; try love-based business development; and choose what interests you.
I use my book/s to achieve my other life goals.
Use your book/s as a key to other good things you want. Make your author expectations and goals explicit to guide your choice of sales/marketing and author business development activities.
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