Ep. 181: The Profitable Author: 1001 Ways to Build an Author Business You Love with Sharon Woodhouse

Today’s show is an exciting one! It’s the perfect authorpreneurship episode with our guest author Sharon Woodhouse. She will be sharing ideas from her book, “⁠TheProfitable Author: 1,001 Ways to Build a Business You Love Around Your Books⁠.”Sharon is a former indie book publisher and current owner ofConspire Creative, a book business agency that offers coaching, consulting, project management, and business support services for authors and indie publishers. She writes about all aspects of creating holistic, income-generatingauthor businesses you love and finding your place in the vibrant ecosystem of books. Sharon has helped tens of thousands of other authors and publishers through her teaching, group coaching, and writing.In 1994, Woodhouse founded her first publishing company and created with a small staff the beloved Chicago brand of Lake Claremont Press (LCP). LCP published over 500,000 books of 80 different titles in its 25 years and won 30 small press awards. In 2011, she started Everything Goes Media, LLC, to encompass her growing range of book industry activities, including consulting, coaching, mediation, print brokering, private publishing, and project management, adding the Conspire Creative name in 2015.Contact Sharon atConspire Creative Email: ⁠[email protected]⁠Website: ⁠www.conspirecreative.com⁠Substack: ⁠An Author Business You Love subscription⁠ Books MentionedBetter Than I Dreamed⁠https://www.amazon.com/Better-Than-Dreamed-Beautiful-Destinations/dp/B0F4NH4RLD/⁠⁠The Profitable Author: 1,001 Ways to Build a Business You Love Around Your Books⁠About the HostJamaican authorpreneur, Cameka “Ruth” Taylor, a.k.a. “The Rocket-Writer,” is the CEO and founder of Extra MILE Innovators Limited, trading as BambuSparks. Ruth serves as the Chief Publishing Consultant at BambuSparks and is a writing and publishing coach. Ruth has published 30 books, including six Amazon bestsellers. She writes inspirational memoirs, personal development books, and books for authors. Ruth is on a mission to raise up 10,000 winningCaribbean Authorpreneurs by 2030 to transform lives and create sustainable income for authors across the Caribbean.