Being an author is a job. It's a position at a publishing business. And businesses don't make money, people do.

The position of an author is one publishers provide so that they have people helping bring in revenue in order to maintain a successful and profitable publishing business. While a publisher's sales team's main function is to get books purchased by retailers to put on their shelves, the author has the biggest responsibility and duty of getting those books off the retailers' shelves and into the hands of the consumers, aka the author's readers, audience, fan base, supporters, and other book buyers.

That is where the biggest challenge and problem lies in the literary world and publishing industry; especially with the author-publisher relationship. Most publishers and authors don't have a job description. But Official Author Job Description: And Other Duties as Assigned is the solution to that problem. It's the author job description missing from your book business. It's what's going to help your book, author, and publishing business or literary career reach its full potential.

With this author and publisher resource, you don't have to start from scratch or reinvent the wheel when it comes to creating an effective author job description. Thanks to national best-selling author, award-winning publisher, and business subject matter expert Joylynn M. Ross, you can just roll with the one that already exists.

If your success is based on the success of your role as an author, the authors you publish and/or the authors you work with, then this is the job description that's going to equip, educate, and empower authors with the tools, systems, and strategies needed for all parties involved to achieve writing, publishing, literary, and financial literary success!