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Then the first thing I did when I got the new publishing contract was I paid that back. A wonderful publisher wanted to work with me and I had gotten the rights back, and so I had all my ducks in a row.Īnd I considered the money that I lived on during those six months of being unemployed and out of contract kind of, you know, taking a loan from that safety net of savings that I had built up. Luckily by the end of the year I had another publishing contract.

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That's when I realized no matter who I was partnering with as a publisher, I was CEO of me incorporated, although I wasn't incorporated then of course, but I took that professional attitude. I dove into learning everything I could about the business because I refused to be in that position of powerlessness again. So suddenly I had quit my day job, I was 1,000 miles away from home with no job, unemployed and no publishing contract. When I moved, the book that was due to come out in 2006, which was going to be my dream debut thriller hardcover, you know, the whole nine yards, the publisher canceled it 90 days before publication day because of cover art issues. Maybe other people have already heard it. I thought that was the job of the publishers, and you know this story. What I didn't do a lot of planning on, and it was fortuitous that I actually still have a career, was learning about the actual publishing business.

I basically moved to paradise, so I live at the beach now, and so I did a lot of planning on that avenue. When I left my day job, I moved 1,000 miles away because I thought, “I'm never going to get a mortgage as a writer.” So I thought I better figure out where I wanted to live and spend, you know, a good chuck of the rest of my life. I started two years ahead of time saving, looking at my expenditures. It might be time management, it might be family needs but for me, I really had to get my financial world in order. I needed to make certain that finances were not going to be a critical issue.įor other people it might be different things. I also help support most of my extended family. I'm single, so I have no one to rely on as a safety net. I decided in 2004 that I was going to purse writing as a full-time career and I had started then, so this is about two years before I left my day job, planning ahead, especially finances. And I realized as I was working with my New York City publisher that it's a lot of work, and how was I going to give 120% to my patients and 120% to this new dream come true? Because, you know, who wouldn't want to be a writer? I got my first publishing contract and began to think of publishing as career in 2004, and I actually had two contracts by the end of that year.

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And when you're a pediatrician, even working part-time is 40 to 50 hours a week, so it's, pretty much no matter what you do, your full time job. I was a pediatric ER doctor and then a community pediatrician. When did you leave your day job to become a writer, what year was it and why did you make that decision?ĬJ: I actually left my day job in 2006. We'll come back to me in a minute but CJ, tell us about, a bit about your story. I left my day job five years ago now in September 2011 to become a full-time author/entrepreneur. I'm a USA Today bestselling author of thrillers under JF Penn and I also write bestselling non-fiction for authors. Joanna Penn with CJ Lyons after her ITW Thriller award for Best ebook original in New YorkĬJ Lyons is the award-winning and New York Times bestselling author of 30 novels, which she describes as thrillers with heart. We'll come to that in a minute but just an introduction in case people don't know who we are, and why should they. We are going to have a discussion around when is the right time to go full time as a writer.

I'm Joanna Penn from and I'm here today with CJ Lyons from the Indie Author Fringe 2016 from the Alliance of Independent Authors.