Replay: Grant Faulkner and Brooke Warner share Five Things They've Learned about What It Takes to Be an Authorprenuer
Check out the first five minutes of their recent class.
“We’ll share Five Things We’ve Learned about what it takes to be or become an authorpreneuer. It takes hutzpah and an entrepreneurial spirit to fully leap into the creative life, and we have learned that this is not an all-or-nothing game. This course will cover why you need to cultivate multiple streams of income, why timing matters, and why the old truism—’you gotta fake it till you make it’—is as relevant here as anywhere.”
– Grant Faulkner and Brooke Warner, Five Things I’ve Learned about What It Takes to Be an Authorprenuer
Last Sunday, creators, publishers, and producers Grant Faulkner and Brooke Warner, joined Five Things I've Learned to share all they’ve learned about selling your book and maintaining a living as writer today.
In Five Things I’ve Learned about What It Takes to Be an Authorprenuer, Grant and Brooke share all they learned about all it takes to build and maintain a sustainable creative life as an author. Drawing on their decades of personal experience in writing, publishing, teaching, and literary entrepreneurship, they help you think more expansively about authorship, income, and impact. Even better, they detail the best practical strategies they’ve discovered for effectively aligning your creative work with book- and literary-adjacent ventures.
About Grant and Brooke: Grant is the co-founder of 100 Word Story and Executive Producer of the upcoming TV show, America’s Next Great Author. He’s also the author of The Art of Brevity, and several other books on flash fiction and creativity. Grant’s writing has also been published in Tin House, The New York Times, Poets & Writers, and numerous anthologies. Grant is also on Substack. Subscribe to his page below:
Brooke is the publisher of She Writes Press and SparkPress, president of Warner Coaching Inc., and author of Write On, Sisters!, Green-light Your Book, What’s Your Book?, and three additional titles on memoir. She is a TEDx speaker and the former executive editor of Seal Press. Brooke is also the former Chairperson of the Independent Book Publishers Association and sits on the boards of the Bay Area Book Festival and the National Association of Memoir Writers. Brooke, like Grant, is also on Substack.
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