If you are currently in the business of being an artist and
still creating works to sell, then your income from past published works
would be included as part of your income reported
on Schedule C and subject to self-employment tax.
But, if you are not in the business of being an artist and
are simply receiving royalty income for past published works, then your
royalty income is reported on Schedule E
and is not subject to self-employment tax.
Since you did not receive a Form 1099-MISC to report your
income, you will simply enter it into either Schedule C or Schedule E depending
on which on applies to your situation.
Use the following steps to go directly to Schedule C (and the same steps
for Schedule E, using “schedule e” as the search term):
On the top row of the
TurboTax online screen, click on Search (or for CD/downloaded TurboTax
locate the search box in the upper right corner)
This opens a box where you
can type in “schedule c” (be sure to enter exactly as shown here) and
click the magnifying glass (or for CD/downloaded TurboTax, click Find)
The search results will
give you an option to “Jump to schedule c”
Click on the blue “Jump
to schedule c” link
