7 tips to create a book from your blog

June 19th, 2012 → 8:44 am @

Here’s some great tips from Nina Amir via Writers Digest on how to create a book from your blog:

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Business Tip #1 for Writers: Planning

June 18th, 2012 → 8:00 am @

Two resource for planning for your writing business

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How much does it cost to self-publish?

June 14th, 2012 → 8:00 am @

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 […]

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Business Tip:Bookkeeping help

June 7th, 2012 → 3:36 pm @

  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 […]

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Author to Business Owner: Loree Lough

June 4th, 2012 → 8:00 am @

Author to Business Owner is designed to provide first-hand business tips for any writer. Each special guest has graciously imparted knowledge of their writing business in hopes of encouraging fellow authors to grow and manage their own businesses. This new month brings Loree Lough to Author to Business Owner! Loree is not your everyday author. […]

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Q&A: What does an editor do?

May 31st, 2012 → 8:00 am @

Today marks the end of our short series on common questions from authors, brought to us by ZLS Publishing. We have gleaned some valuable information as to how authors can better market and publish their work. Let’s see what ZLS has to say about editors: “I’m new to this writing and publishing thing. I keep […]

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Q&A: Is it necessary for an author to have a business plan?

May 28th, 2012 → 8:00 am @

It is time for ZLS Publishing to provide us with another answer to a common question authors have about their writing business. Let’s see what they have to say about the necessity of a business plan for authors. Is it useful? “As a writer, soon to be a published author, do you think it’s necessary […]

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How to deal with royalty payments to a parent, instead of the teenager

May 22nd, 2012 → 12:42 pm @

CreateSpace will not make royalty payment to minors (teenagers under age 18). Here’s how to deal with it.

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CreateSpace for minors?

May 21st, 2012 → 12:43 pm @

CreateSpace allowed a teenager to write a book, but required that royalty payments to go to his father.

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Reasonable salary for a S corp

May 15th, 2012 → 8:57 am @

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 […]

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