Quarterly Review & Forecast: Creative Business Planning for Authors & Poets

Success in self-publishing doesn't happen by accident. Whatever genre you write in-whether fiction, nonfiction or poetry-both writing and publishing are complex and challenging tasks. An integrated program and a plan of action makes everything easier.

In her book, Creative Self-Publishing, novelist and poet Orna Ross draws on years of experience, both as a working indie author and director of the Alliance of Independent Authors, to provide a tried-and-tested self-publishing program for writers.

An accompanying series of planners to guide authors and poets through this program, step by step.

It also offers a process that will allow you to enjoy the work, not just on the days you publish a book, but every day of every working week.

These planners are supported by an online creative community and weekly accountability group.

• Plan and achieve your creative and commercial goals following a program that has helped thousands of indie authors
• Optimise your time management and finances with tried-and-tested success tools, including monthly overviews, habit trackers, work-life balance logs, content plans, and simple money systems
• Overcome creative blocks with mind maps, charts for creative rest and play, and f-r-e-e-writing exercises
• Prioritise your intentions and goals and make better decisions about how to spend your time and money
• Replace overwhelm and procrastination with clarity and simplicity
• Set more effective success measures to aid your happiness and avoid comparisonitis
• Spend more time enjoying your work and less time wondering and worrying.

• Sets creative intentions and realistic goals that you can achieve within three months
• Review and pre-planning process
• Evaluation of strengths and weaknesses, opportunities and threats
• Process and profit maps and logs for your creative manager
• Products and projects maps and logs for your creative maker
• Pitching and publications maps and logs for your creative marketeer
• Monthly work and profit planners
• Weekly Intentions and accomplishments planner

This quarterly planner is suitable for teachers, first time indie authors, and established author-publishers.