The United States is in the midst of an entrepreneurial explosion, one of the most hopeful signs for the country’s future. As an author, you are an entrepreneur. Every book you write is a separate enterprise with its own fate and its own reckoning that balances income against expenditures. For Entrepreneurial Authors, the only business criteria that count are profits and relationships.
Today there are more authors than ever, but few are true Entrepreneurial Authors. If you are contemplating the life of an author, the way of The Entrepreneurial Author is the path you should follow. If you are already an author, that is the direction in which you should evolve.
Entrepreneurial Authorship did not exist for your parents or for your grandparents, because the path has only recently been blazed. Technology and enlightenment have marked its way. The Puritan work ethic of your ancestors has gone by the wayside, along with the Puritans. That work ethic had no place for balance, only for hard work. The Entrepreneurial Author’s work ethic includes both.