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    The Beginning Professional Writer: Business for Breakfast, #1
    The Beginning Professional Writer: Business for Breakfast, #1
    The Beginning Professional Writer: Business for Breakfast, #1
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    The Beginning Professional Writer: Business for Breakfast, #1

    By Leah Cutter

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    Until now, as a writer, all you've focused on is the Craft of writing. 

    However, your writing is not the same thing as your business. 

    This book gives you a combination of career and writer/life advice to help you take that next step, and go from being merely a writer to being a professional, from someone who has had to learn all this the hard way.

    Some of the topics discussed include:

    DBAs
    Intellectual property
    Money
    Communication
    Self-confidence 101
    The physicality of writing
    What's stopping you from writing

    The Business for Breakfast series contains bite-sized business advice. This is a 101 level book, with beginning advice for the professional.

    Be sure to read all the books in this series!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherKnotted Road Press
    Release dateJan 8, 2016
    ISBN9781524276508
    The Beginning Professional Writer: Business for Breakfast, #1
    Author

    Leah Cutter

    Leah Cutter--a Crawford Award Finalist--writes page-turning fiction in exotic locations, such as New Orleans, ancient China, the Oregon coast, ancient Japan, rual Kentucky, Seattle, Minneapolis, Budapest, etc.  Find more fiction by Leah Cutter at www.KnottedRoadPress.com. Follow her blog at www.LeahCutter.com.

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      Book preview

      The Beginning Professional Writer - Leah Cutter

      The Beginning Professional Writer

      The Beginning Professional Writer

      Business for Breakfast, Volume 1

      Leah R Cutter

      Knotted Road Press

      Contents

      Foreward by Blaze Ward

      Publisher’s Note by Ursula Leighton

      Introduction by Leah Cutter

      Chapter 1

      Chapter 2

      Chapter 3

      Chapter 4

      Chapter 5

      Chapter 6

      Chapter 7

      Chapter 8

      Chapter 9

      Chapter 10

      Chapter 11

      Chapter 12

      In Conclusion…

      Appendix

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      About the Author

      Also by Leah R Cutter

      About Knotted Road Press

      Foreward by Blaze Ward

      I’ve learned a lot from Leah since I took up the Craft. How to write better. How to tell better stories (not the same thing). How to think like a professional writer. When she starts talking to other writers, she’s bringing years of experience as a technical writer, programmer, and nerd to the table.

      Many of the writers I know are extremely experienced and knowledgeable about the craft of writing, far more than I will ever accomplish. But rarely have the stepped very far outside of their shell of being a writer. When they do, they confront a world where all (ALL) of the old assumptions about how to be a professional writer have been completely upended.

      Those of you with the right historical bent will understand that we are living through what Joseph Schumpeter described in manufacturing and capitalism, where the forces of modernization, in their relentlessly impersonal way, continuously innovate forward. The term is ‘Creative Destruction.’

      Schumpeter’s Gale levels everything. It has arrived on our shores. What used to be TradPub fifty years ago is gone.

      Today, you have to come face to face with a world where you are your own business manager. My musician friends and family are a decade ahead of us in having to be all things to all people in their career. But you do not have to go it alone.

      What Leah has done is taken all the complicated lessons she had to learn over the last few years and boiled them down into easy-to-understand, bite-sized morsels and in language geared toward the professional writer. You can go from just being a writer to being a product, and understanding why you are doing what you do. I know future books will cover other things, including how to turn yourself into a small-press publisher if you choose, on understanding how they work so you can protect yourself against being taken advantage of.

      It has already made me a better writer to know these things. I am looking forward to what comes next. I think you will also benefit, because up until now, did you even know what questions you needed to ask?

      Blaze Ward

      January 2015

      Publisher’s Note by Ursula Leighton

      This books is the one hundredth title that Knotted Road Press (KRP) has published.

      Not the first business book, and certainly not the first non-fiction book that I’ve done.

      The first non-fiction book was a charming autobiography by Terry Brodbeck Ward. She’d grown up on a carnival in the 1930s and ’40s, in mid-west America. It was a collection of memories from a time in America that has rapidly disappeared, a time when a small town’s entertainment for the year was the traveling carnival, a time before TV.

      The book is merely a chapbook, perhaps 40 pages long. It’s something that only a small press like KRP would pick up.

      Does it have a large readership? No.

      Does it have a readership? Absolutely.

      And that’s one of the best things about being the publisher for KRP in this day in age. Instead of trying to create an audience, or generate velocity, or even buzz, I can publish a book and trust that the readers who are looking for that kind of work will find it.

      I get to trust the readers.

      While this may only be KRP’s hundredth title, it won’t be too long before there’s two hundred books, then three hundred.

      As Business for Breakfast discusses, some of those titles will only ever be drips: a sale here, a sale there.

      But those drips will combine into trickles.

      Some titles will be trickles on their own. And hopefully, at some point, streams.

      It’s a wonderful time to be publishing and to be able to take the long view.

      I hope that you’ll enjoy taking this journey with us.

      Ursula Leighton

      Publisher, Knotted Road Press

      Introduction by Leah Cutter

      This book is designed for the artist/writer, the creative type. I will use terms and concepts that I, as an artist/writer, understand better than the business terms that the rest of the world uses.

      In addition, although I think of myself as an artist, this book is primarily for the writer who is just starting and is in their first few years of seriously writing. It’s to help you start becoming a professional writer. I define a professional writer

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