Create · Expand · Prosper
Build a creative business that lasts.
Create Expand Prosper is the home for independent authors who are serious about turning their writing into a sustainable career — not just a passion project.
Four ways to build your author business
Events, agency services, editorial content, and promotional opportunities — all designed for the independent author who's playing the long game.
Events
The 2026 Create Expand Prosper Summit Series
Three virtual summits across 2026 — Create, Expand, and Prosper. Each one tackles a different layer of the sustainable author business. Attend one or all three.
Agency
Revenue Revival
Done-for-you strategy and execution for Kickstarters, Shopify stores, and subscription revenue. We activate the channels your back catalog is sitting on.
Magazine
CEP Magazine
Features, interviews, and deep dives on the craft, business, and mindset of building a sustainable author career — from people who are actually doing it.
Promotions
CEP Promotions
Curated promotional opportunities, newsletter features, and reader-focused campaigns to get your books in front of new audiences.
One audience, five places it gathers
Create Expand Prosper is not a single event. It is a connected set of channels reaching independent authors and creators — 20,000+ of them — across the year.
Three virtual summits a year — Create, Expand, and Prosper. 100+ expert sessions and 2,000+ attendees to date.
A recurring publication for working authors — craft, business, and the state of the creator economy.
Monica’s ongoing writing on publishing strategy and revenue — 13,000 Substack subscribers and a 20,000-person newsletter list..
Group promotions and reader-facing campaigns that put books in front of new audiences.
Done-with-you revenue work for authors and creator businesses, built on the Six Revenue Engines framework.
The channels feed each other. That is what makes the audience worth reaching — and what makes a partnership here compound.
Choose Your Path
>What brings you here?
Three different people use this site. Pick the one that sounds like you.
Learn from the summits
Three summits a year on strengthening your work, helping it travel, and making the business sustainable. Buy one, or get all three plus the bonus library.
Work with CEP Agency
Start with a $249 backlist audit that shows where you are leaving money on the table — credited toward any engagement that follows.
Reach this audience
Sponsor an activation across the summit, newsletter, magazine, and a live session — or place an ad in CEP Magazine starting at $250.
Not sure where to begin?
The 2026 Create Expand Prosper Summit Series is the fastest way to get the full Create Expand Prosper framework. Three events, a complete picture of the sustainable author business.
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