{"id":208163,"date":"2024-05-02T10:30:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-02T15:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.draft2digital.com\/blog\/?p=208163"},"modified":"2024-05-02T04:04:47","modified_gmt":"2024-05-02T09:04:47","slug":"general-accounting-for-indie-authors-ep173","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/draft2digital.com\/blog\/general-accounting-for-indie-authors-ep173\/","title":{"rendered":"General Accounting for Indie Authors \/\/ EP173"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Episode Summary<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>D.F. 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That's the best kind of business plan.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022 Get started now:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/draft2digital.com\/\">https:\/\/draft2digital.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022 Learn the ins, the outs, and the all-arounds of indie publishing from the industry experts on the D2D Blog:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/draft2digital.com\/blog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/Draft2Digital.com\/blog<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022 Promote your books with our Universal Book Links from Books2Read:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/books2read.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/books2read.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Make sure you bookmark&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/d2dlive.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/D2DLive.com<\/a>&nbsp;for links to live events, and to catch back episodes of the Self Publishing Insiders Podcast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"transcript\">Transcript<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>TBA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Episode Summary D.F. 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