Arnold Dizon

Arnold Dizon runs a one-person bookkeeping and tax practice in Henderson, Nevada. He writes for people who do their own work and carry their own worries: the freelancer with an invoice forty-five days unpaid, the online seller whose deposit is not their revenue, the owner lying awake over a conversation that was never theirs to fix.

His books come in two kinds. The practical guides, on marketplace bookkeeping, 1099s, quarterly taxes and pricing a solo practice, say in plain words what he tells clients across the desk every week. The quieter books, Not Yours to Fix and the Burning Hearts stories, are about what the numbers do to a person, and how to put the day down at six o'clock.

He holds a PTIN and is a QuickBooks Online ProAdvisor. He is a Christian who reads the Stoics as practical wisdom. He is not a philosopher and not a therapist, and none of his books is tax advice for your situation; that needs a professional who has seen your numbers.