The Coffee Break Guide to Business Plans for Writers: The Step-By-Step Guide to Taking Control of Your Writing Career

by Amy Denim

Take control of your writing career! " After reading this book I was ready to start writing my author business plan. The steps Denim gives are exactly what I needed. " ~ Heather Lire, author of the Holiday, Vermont series. When you first started writing all you thought you needed was a good story, the right words and the time to write. But there's so much more to a writing career than putting words on the page. Having a business plan is a big part of moving your writing from being a hobby to a profession. But who has the time to sit down and write a report style tome filled with scary numbers and boring mission statements. The Coffee Break Guide to Business Plans breaks the ideas you need for your plan into manageable parts that you can work on during your coffee breaks and takes the traditional business plan sections and transforms them into ideas for your creative brain. You'll - How to create SMART goals - How to track your query letters, book sales, rankings and more - How to create a budget for your income and expenses - How to evaluate your plan - What you need to do to become an author entrepreneur Buy this book and take control of your writing career today!

Genres: Writing

150 pages, Paperback

First published December 26, 2013

About the author

Amy Denim writes business books for writers and contemporary romance. She loves hot heroes (like chefs and cowboys) and curvy intelligent heroines (like chefs and cowgirls.)

She’s been a franchise sales coordinator, a lifeguard, a personal shopper, and a teacher of English as a Foreign Language. But now she spends her days reading and writing at her local library or in her book cave.

Amy started out her writer’s life scared out of her wits because she hadn’t yet created an online platform, wasn’t on twitter, didn’t have a Facebook fanpage and had never even heard of Goodreads. She just wrote books. So she spent a year becoming a social media fiend and now does consulting for creatives on how to use social media effectively. She started Coffee Break Social Media to help writers and artists learn to use SM platforms effectively (without the scare tactics) but still have time to create. She believes social media can be every writer’s friend, sometimes they just need an introduction.

Reviews

[Amy Denim]

This is some of my best work, if I do say so myself. :)

[P.J. Sharon]

Amy Denim takes the mystery and fear out of writing a business plan.

As a writer, my right creative brain is clearly dominant, making things like business plans and marketing strategies sound like foreign languages. Amy Denim’s step-by-step guide, which focuses on business plans specifically for writers, is set up to be done in small increments…literally on a coffee break. She makes the process simple and totally do-able. Her clear, concise, and entertaining style makes this a must-read for anyone considering writing as a business. Highly recommend!

[Kaylee Johnston]

Such a hands on how to book!

I've been wanting to create a business plan for my writing business but never knew how to adapt the old templates into something that worked for me. This is so helpful! I can't wait to get started.

[Nathan Shumate]

(Copy received in exchange for an honest review.)

This might be a good book for anyone who'd considered writing SOLELY in terms of putting words on paper. If, however, you've put any thought into the mechanics, logistics and business of being a writer -- how to find an agent, whether to go self-published, how much energy you could put toward a series, etc. -- then most of what's here will be stuff that you either thought of on your own, or read on one of those business-of-being-a-writer blogs. There's nothing here that isn't dealt with at far greater length, and with far more expertise, on the blogs of Dean Wesley Smith and Kristine Kathryn Rusch.