Prosperity for Writers: A Writer's Guide to Creating Abundance (The Prosperous Writer)

You don't have to starve to be a writer.

The starving artist is a story the writing world has been selling for so long it almost feels true. It isn't. The writers you know who make a living from their words didn't get lucky and they aren't doing anything you can't learn. They made one decision: they stopped believing the myth.

This is the short, opinionated foundation book of The Prosperous Writer series. Read it in two sittings. Run the exercises on Sunday. By Monday morning, your relationship with money, with your manuscript, and with your identity as a writer will have shifted.

Honorée Corder is the bestselling author of 68 books with over 5 million copies sold in 40 languages, including You Must Write a Book, The Bestselling Book Formula, and Vision to Reality. As executive book producer for more than a decade, she has guided thousands of nonfiction authors from blank page to bestseller — among them the co-authors of The Miracle Morning series with Hal Elrod.

Inside, you'll learn:

• The Prosperous Writer Identity — the eight-chapter walk from "I'm not the kind of person who makes a living writing" to "Of course I am."
• The FAME Framework — Focus · Action · Money · Energy — the four-part operating system every prosperous writer runs, whether they call it that or not.
• Your Money Story — the chapter that names the limiting beliefs about money you inherited before you wrote a single page, and the practical sequence to rewrite them.
• Practical Practices of Prosperous Writers — the daily rituals, weekly reviews, and quarterly resets the working writers in Honorée's mastermind actually run.
• Your Journey to Becoming a Prosperous Writer — the milestones, the inflection points, and the predictable plateaus, named in advance so you can see them coming.
• Accelerate Your Success — the leverage moves (mentors, masterminds, the right rooms) that compress years of trial-and-error into months.

For the working writer who has more books on their hard drive than royalties in the bank. For the coach, consultant, or expert who wants their writing to fund the rest of their business. For the aspiring author who has heard "writers don't make money" one too many times and is ready to put it down.

Stop apologizing for wanting to be paid for your words. Start being paid for them.

— ABOUT THIS BOOK —
For: Aspiring nonfiction authors · Indie authors · Coaches · Consultants · Speakers · Subject-matter experts · Writers building income streams
Format: Paperback · eBook
Series role: Book 1 / Foundation of The Prosperous Writer series — followed by Productivity Journal, The Nifty 15, Making More Money, and Finding Readers
Frameworks: The Prosperous Writer Identity · FAME · Your Money Story · Practical Practices · Accelerate Your Success
Author credentials: 68 books · 5M+ copies · 40 languages · TEDx · Empire Builders Mastermind · Hal Elrod's executive book coach · Prosperous Writer Mastermind host
Companion title: Prosperity for Writers Productivity Journal
Comparable Titles: Big Magic (Elizabeth Gilbert) · You Are a Badass at Making Money (Jen Sincero) · The Artist's Way (Julia Cameron) · Bird by Bird (Anne Lamott) · The War of Art (Steven Pressfield)

— Honorée Corder, executive book producer, 68 books · 5M+ copies sold · 40 languages