How to quit your business or side hustle

I'm very proud of my first article for The Riveter on how to quit your business or side hustle. I was inspired by my own side hustles, Cupcakes Take the Cake and In The Flesh, which I was involved in for 10 and 5 years, respectively. I hope it will be helpful to some of you, or to people you may know. I learned and relearned a lot of things while working on this, most of which boil down to that there's no shame in ending a project you love or once loved but that's no longer working for your life or business. I interviewed the former owner of New York City bakery/restaurant Sweet Revenge, a woman who quit being a face painter, and the author of a book about women and careers. Check it out!

Read my new Forbes article if you dream of opening a bookstore

In case it relates to your New Year's plans (or future business plans or retirement plans), I wrote about how to open an independent bookstore over at Forbes.com. I interviewed owners of four recently opened independent bookstores, including two going the popup store route, about their career paths, steps and advice.



Hope you find it useful (and if so, I'd love if you shared it). I have lots more articles in the works relevant to authors, such as a few about how to get book deals (here's one I already did about getting published based on your Instagram account), so stay tuned.

You can follow me at Forbes after you make an account there to receive an email when a new articles posts. I write 5-7 per month. This has been a wonderful addition to my freelance writing, especially since I started in November after a year in which I had very few other writing gigs. I get to learn from authors, editors, publishers and bookstore owners, and generally geek out about books. If you're an editor, publishers, publicist or literary agent with an idea for an article you'd like to pitch me, or a standout title and why it's newsworthy, email me at rachelkb at gmail.com with "Forbes" in the subject line. Note that I cover publishing news and trends, and generally not individual titles or series unless something about them makes them stand out, like you can draw on the covers.