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Writing as a Small Business

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Earning a living as a professional writer is a business. Writing freelance is the equivalent of being a self-employed small business owner and operator. As such, meticulous attention must be made to how that business is structured, operated, and kept track of. Failure to keep aware of the proverbial 'bottom line' can lead to financial and professional disaster. Enter Nash Black's 196-page instructional guide and reference "Writing As A Small Business" covers what every aspiring (and practicing) professional author needs to know about the financial side of their work including whether or not to incorporate or operate as a sole proprietorship, the keeping and storage of financial records, filling out state and federal tax forms, avoiding audits, handling advances with respect to royalties, grants and gratuities; safeguarding the computer from hackers and online viruses, and generally protecting the financial rights and aspects of a written work -- before and after publication. Enhanced with bibliographies of thematically appropriate informational resources on the subject of the economics of professional writing, a glossary of terms, and an index, "Writing As A Small Business" is a critically important, thoroughly 'user friendly', instructional guide that should be on the personal reference shelf of every aspiring writer seeking to financially support themselves and their loved ones through their writing regardless of the genre, category, or discipline they are writing in and for.

Deceptions of the Ages: "Mormons" Freemasons and Extraterrestrials

As many writers will tell you, the easiest way to lose your profits is to fail to file your income taxes in an appropriate manner. Instead of trying to decipher the IRS pubs, I recommend this book to any and all writers, especially those who are just starting out. Nash Black gives you the latest rulings and up-to-date policies of the IRS and a general overview of state tax codes. Black also gives an easy to use method of keeping track of expenses that you can use, or modify to suit your own system of filing. She tells you what happens in an IRS audit and how to keep records that will be acceptable to an auditor. This book is an invaluable tool. I recommend it to all writers and thank Nash Black for taking the time to write it.

Matthew D. Heines author of Deceptions of the Ages: "Mormons" Freemasons and Extraterrestrials, My Year in Oman and Another Year in Oman
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