Welcome: Now you can get the answers you’re looking for (pinned post)

Hello Fellow Authors,
I’m EM Lynley. That’s my pseudonym. Like you I had a lot of tax questions when I first started getting paid for my writing.

I know exactly what you’re wondering, because I already asked the same questions, and now I’ve got answers. Four years ago I took a 3-month long tax preparer class, to make sure I had the right answers to my own questions about writer-specific tax issues.

I’m here to help you with the same issues and problems. Feel free to leave your own question on the Ask a Tax Question Form, or subscribe to the newsletter for monthly tax tips.

Whether you are published or not, self-published or have a publisher, or even if you have an accountant, you’ll find something of value here, because as an author, I have the experience with writer-specific tax deductions.