This is an independent review. I do not know the author.This is an excellent book written for folks wishing to open a home-based business or manage one better. The author is a highly experienced professional - this comes across in her humble, practical, and easy-to-understand writing style. The book contains most of what the small home-based business owner needs to succeed. Thorough for its purpose is an understatement. Straight shooting and to the point. While other books take you on a wild and convoluted song and dance, this book gets straight to the point, keeps you on point, leads you where you need to go, shares priceless tips, and does it all in easily digestible bits while remaining on point. 'Great things (value) come in small packages' - at least it is true here.Get it now. Read it. Re-read it. Mark it up. Keep it handy. Well done.?