Professional Development for Authors - from writer to business owner

At some point, writing the book stops being the whole job. 

There's a shift that happens — or needs to happen — when you realize that being an author also means running a business. Making decisions. Showing up as the face of your work. Owning the expertise behind the book, not just the book itself.

That shift is harder than it sounds. A lot of authors are deeply comfortable with the writing and quietly uncomfortable with everything that comes after. 

This collection of posts is for the author who is ready to make that shift. Not away from the writing — but into the full role of the person behind it.

MINDSET

How to have gratitude for the creative wall

Facing and overcoming the imposter at your next level

Rewrite the story you tell yourself

The spiritual journey of an author and business owner

Trust yourself to dig deeper and move to your next level

Trust the creative in you

Manifesting with Meg

Overcoming blocks as a writer

What story are you telling? 

IN PRACTICE

5 things to stop doing as an author and business owner

How your author business benefits from strategic pauses

When your author event doesn't go as planned

The beauty of small steps and beginnings

Taking baby steps to reach the next level that "big" for you 

Get legally zipped up in your author business

Setting healthy boundaries as an author

Creating and writing through fear

What's the "so what?"

Power of the draft

Learning and Leading  

If you'd like to go deeper:

You Know It's a Verb, Right?

Leadership isn't something you earn once and then have. It's something you practice — every day, in every interaction, at every level of the work.

This book (which I had the joy of co-authoring) is for anyone who senses there's more to leadership than their title reflects — whether you're early in your journey, already leading a team, or running a business and realizing that leading yourself and your clients is its own kind of leadership. Using everyday language and real-life examples, it's a roadmap for the practice of becoming the leader you're already capable of being.

Because leadership doesn't happen because you sat in a classroom or earned a credential. It happens because you prepare for it.

Author Stylist Guide: Own Your Greatness, Get Visible, and Share Your Message

You published the book. Now the opportunity arrives — a book signing, a podcast invitation, a speaking engagement — and suddenly it's not about the writing anymore. It's about you, showing up, in real time, as the person behind the work.

The Author Stylist Guide is for that moment. Not how to get more opportunities — how to make the most of the ones that come to you, so you show up with confidence, shine in the room, and let your book and message reach the people who actually need them.

You already have the courage and the gifts that got you here. This book helps you use them.