If publishing feels overwhelming, it’s usually not because you’re doing it wrong.
It’s because it feels like you’re supposed to be doing everything at once (writing, marketing, social media, ads, newsletters, branding) and it’s all urgent right now.
Over more than 20 years of working with authors, I’ve seen the same thing again and again: most frustration and burnout come from working on the wrong things for your current stage.
The Find Your Author Stage quiz
helps you identify where you are on a five-stage author career path, so you can focus on what actually matters right now. And stop focusing on the rest until it’s time.
Authors move through these five stages over the course of a career.
Sometimes you move forward, sometimes you circle back to a stage (especially when you pivot or stop publishing for awhile), and sometimes you’re in between.
That’s normal.
When you take the quiz, you’ll receive:
- your current author stage
- a short explanation of what that stage really looks like
- clear guidance on what to focus on next (and what you don’t need yet)
If you’ve ever wondered
“am I even working on the right things?”
this will help.
Take this 60 second quiz to see where you are—and what comes next.
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