Business Tip #5 for Writers: Pricing Your Book
July 30th, 2012 → 8:00 am @ Carol
So you’ve spent countless hours writing, drafting, and editing your book. As you send it off to the publisher, you may be thinking, How should I price my book? The answer to this question could be the difference between time well spent or a trip back to the drawing board. Fortunately, there is great advice out […]
Business Tip #4 for Writers: Initial Production Costs
July 23rd, 2012 → 8:00 am @ Carol
So you want to publish your book? Great! But what exactly does that mean? Is there anything to watch out for before you start? As an author, I can answer that with a hearty yes! There could be any number of initial production costs associated with the printing of your book. Take a look at a brief […]
Business Tip #3 for Writers: When Does a Business Start?
July 2nd, 2012 → 8:00 am @ Carol
It is key to know when your writing business officially starts. I can help with that! Read this passage from my book, Business Tips and Taxes for Writers: “For many writers and authors, it may not be easy to tell when your business started. A shop owner can name the date he opened his store for […]
Business Tip #2 for Writers: Start-Up Expenses
June 25th, 2012 → 8:00 am @ Carol
Unclear as to what expenses you will have as an author with a new writing business? You’re in luck! Take a look at this passage from my book, Business Tips and Taxes for Writers, and discover a few unexpected expenses to your writing business: “Long before you have your book published, you will have incurred some […]
A Word on Plagiarism
June 21st, 2012 → 8:45 am @ Carol
There are strides we can take to protect ourselves from plagiarism.
7 tips to create a book from your blog
June 19th, 2012 → 8:44 am @ Carol
Here’s some great tips from Nina Amir via Writers Digest on how to create a book from your blog:
Business Tip #1 for Writers: Planning
June 18th, 2012 → 8:00 am @ Carol
Two resource for planning for your writing business
How much does it cost to self-publish?
June 14th, 2012 → 8:00 am @ Carol
To self-publish or not to self-publish? A tough question for authors. If you decide to take the route of self-publishing, what does that all entail? What’s the bottom line for your writing business? We welcome back publisher and marketer Carol White who is eager to share her knowledge about self-publishing, specifically its costs: “While it […]
Business Tip:Bookkeeping help
June 7th, 2012 → 3:36 pm @ Carol
I love TaxMama, Eva Rosenberg. She’s so helpful, practical and smart! Here’s her advice on bookkeeping for business owners (it applies to writers as well!) All business owners really should understand how to do bookkeeping, if they are handling their own records. Most just pick up some software and hope it will do things […]
Reasonable salary for a S corp
May 15th, 2012 → 8:57 am @ Carol
The Journal of Accountancy (what we CPA’s love to read!) has a very helpful article on “Reasonable salary for S corporation owners” Here’s a few excerpts (for the full article click here) and my plain-English summaries. …an advantage of an S corporation over a C corporation is that a shareholder’s share of the corporation’s net […]
