I've fallen off Heinlein’s Rule 4 due a life roll, but getting back to sending out stories to magazines. Publishingwise I need to learn formatting and business. I have the Copyright Handbook, a workshop series on taxes, and I've read about taxes and business in my home country. The business side feels more intimidating than the writing craft and I don't hear much about the subject outside of certain blogs.
I can share my preformatted templates for short stories and novels. The business side is more intimidating to most writers I think. I know it is to me. That's because it's work instead of play.
That sounds wonderful. I think it's smart to be a little intimidated by business. I've read about Finnish artists and musicians having financial challenges. There was one article about a lot of artists in Finland have up and down, erratic income, but the taxation system expects income to be the same every month. This causes problems sometimes.
I think in the future it would be a good idea to network with other indie authors who are outside of the U.S and see if there's similar challenges and information to be shared. Though I'm learning a lot from U.S authors as well.
Well you've talked me into it :) I've been hemming and hawing because I'm busy for a while work day job stuff and studying, so I don't know how useful I can be to other writers.
I have a couple of other writers who are in a similar boat. They both plan to jump into the list in November. Feel free to delay it if you need to. Otherwise, email me and go for it.
I've fallen off Heinlein’s Rule 4 due a life roll, but getting back to sending out stories to magazines. Publishingwise I need to learn formatting and business. I have the Copyright Handbook, a workshop series on taxes, and I've read about taxes and business in my home country. The business side feels more intimidating than the writing craft and I don't hear much about the subject outside of certain blogs.
I can share my preformatted templates for short stories and novels. The business side is more intimidating to most writers I think. I know it is to me. That's because it's work instead of play.
That sounds wonderful. I think it's smart to be a little intimidated by business. I've read about Finnish artists and musicians having financial challenges. There was one article about a lot of artists in Finland have up and down, erratic income, but the taxation system expects income to be the same every month. This causes problems sometimes.
I think in the future it would be a good idea to network with other indie authors who are outside of the U.S and see if there's similar challenges and information to be shared. Though I'm learning a lot from U.S authors as well.
Sounds like a great reason to jump onto the list I talked about a few days ago. Let me know via email. :-)
Well you've talked me into it :) I've been hemming and hawing because I'm busy for a while work day job stuff and studying, so I don't know how useful I can be to other writers.
I have a couple of other writers who are in a similar boat. They both plan to jump into the list in November. Feel free to delay it if you need to. Otherwise, email me and go for it.