Business Tax Relief for 2010 and 2011
After much arguing and fighting, the new tax legislation is finally in place. The Bush tax cuts are extended, which is a really good thing for dual-income, married-filing-jointly households, and in...
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If Santa didn’t bring you a Kindle…we’re giving one away! Over at the Killer Fiction blog we’ve just added a whole slew of new fab authors to our regular roster, and to celebrate, we’re having a “Start...
View ArticleWhy Are Book Royalties Self-Employment Income?
I get this question sometimes by people who’ve cruised through the tax forms and realize that royalties often have a lower marginal tax rate than their other income and are not subject to...
View ArticleEstimated Tax Payments 101
I’ve converted my previously published ebook into a series of articles, complete with PDF worksheets. So now, you can access everything you wanted to know about calculating and making estimated...
View ArticleNINC Conference
I am attending the Novelists Inc. conference in St. Pete’s Beach, Florida this week. I will be blogging about sessions as soon as I have the time to write stuff up. I will continue to do write ups...
View ArticleNINC: Coker Takes on the Kiana Davenport Issue
In a panel today at NINC conference, panelists were addressing ebook publishing by authors outside of traditional contracts and the potential impact on both traditional and ebook sales. The main...
View ArticleNINC: The New Publishing Landscape (part 1)
The Major Players: Don Weisberg, President of Penguin Young Readers Group Linda Quinton, Associate Publisher and VP of Marketing for Tor-Forge, Starscape Mark Coker – Founder and CEO of Smashwords...
View ArticleNINC: The New Publishing Landscape (part 2)
This is the Q&A part of session 1, covered in the previous blog. All the major players are the same. Please refer to the previous blog for that information. Q: Is the mid-list dead? Carolyn: No....
View ArticleNINC: The New Publishing Landscape (the fray)
At the end of the first session, an important question came up that’s on the mind of every traditionally published author and those aspiring traditionally published authosr. Mark Coker really pushed to...
View ArticleNINC: Session 2 – Finding Your Readers Using Professionals
The Major Players: Thubten Comerford, CEO of WePost Media. David Wilk, Creative Management Partners Tracee Gleichner, Founder and CEO of Literal Exposure Joan Schulhafer, Publishing & Media...
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