When Is The Right Time For An Author To Go Fulltime?: Joanna Penn & CJ Lyons

October 22, 2016

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Two top-selling authors, Joanna Penn and CJ Lyons, discuss what you need to have in place before making the leap out of the day job and into a life of being a fulltime author.

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