What if the thing standing between you and a sustainable author career isn't your writing, your marketing, or even your platform — but your relationship with money? Nicola Cook is a UK-based entrepreneur, sales growth consultant, and multi-genre author who has built and exited businesses, made multiple seven figures on the back of a single business book, and runs Aurora Independent Books — her own indie publishing imprint — under the fiction pen name Isabella Wiles. She also happens to be genuinely great at the stuff most authors find terrifying: the numbers. In this conversation, Nicola breaks down the financial fundamentals every author-entrepreneur needs — not as theory, but as hard-won practice from someone who has been ten days from bankruptcy and built her way back. We cover the difference between revenue, profit, and cash flow, the three ...