Sentences with phrase «authors making good money»

I am all for authors making good money on their books so they will continue to write.

Still, knowing that there are many indie authors making good money is quite encouraging.

Number of Times I've seen or read Readers say they want to make sure Authors make good money: Hundreds.

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Fredrick Petrie, author of «The End of Work: Financial Planning for People With Better Things To Do,» recommends «taxing» yourself in order to get more money out of your wallet and into the bank — this way you'll make savings a priority from the get - go, rather than budgeting everything else first and then seeing what is left over for savings.

If you are a banker, or by some other qualification a member of what Taibbi dubs here «the grifter class» for whom «government is a slavish lapdog that the financial companies... use as a tool for making money» — well, you and the author are not going to get along.

Amanda is a best - selling author of «Make Money Your Honey», a book that helps freelancers and business owners understand their relationship with money and how to make it more productMake Money Your Honey», a book that helps freelancers and business owners understand their relationship with money and how to make it more producMoney Your Honey», a book that helps freelancers and business owners understand their relationship with money and how to make it more producmoney and how to make it more productmake it more productive.

The authors» conclusion — Entrepreneurs think they are better than their resumes show and realize they can make more money by going it alone.

Malkiel (left), the Princeton economist best known as the author of A Random Walk Down Wall Street, now in its 12th edition, took to the op - ed pages of the Wall Street Journal on Tuesday, saying investors who would «pull their money out of the stock market today to invest in bonds are making a huge mistake.»

Mr. Yubas is the author of the book «Product Idea to Product Success: A Complete Step - by - Step Guide to Making Money from Your Idea» as well as several articles, eBooks, Kits, audio programs, and DVD.

She's also an online business coach and the Amazon best - selling author of Make Money Your Honey.

Books have always been overpriced, and publishing companies and individual authors who want to control the price of books had better figure out a new way to make money... and quick.

Problem definition is time - consuming, a deep journey into our own prejudices and hopes for a Christian faith that actually makes a difference, a horrible awakening that giants of the faith may have little faith in God and more in courts and money, that fame - seekers exist within the church system and garner friends as shields, that a man that marries a second wife may wish to destroy the first wife at any cost, and that authors can indeed write good books but run away from women speaking of their own abuse, and that prior friendships dictate the limits of Christianity....

Joline Godfrey is the CEO of Independent Means and the author of Raising Financially Fit Kids; Our Wildest Dreams: Women Making Money, Having Fun, Doing Good; No More Frogs To Kiss: 99 Ways to Give Economic Power to Girls; andTwenty $ ecrets to Money and Independence: The DollarDiva's Guide to Life.

Beth Kobliner is a commentator and journalist, author of the New York Times bestseller Get a Financial Life: Personal Finance in Your Twenties and Thirties, as well as Make Your Kid a Money Genius (Ev

Beth Kobliner is a commentator and journalist, author of the New York Times bestseller Get a Financial Life: Personal Finance in Your Twenties and Thirties, as well as Make Your Kid a Money Genius (Even If You're Not), a new book for parents coming from Simon & Schuster in February 2017.

Gretchen Rubin, author of The Happiness Project and Better Than Before, notes that while after a certain point money doesn't necessarily make us happier, feeling out of control and not having enough money is strongly correlated with unhappiness and anxiety.

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I can definitely say that SOME authors are making impressively good money self - publishing both new works and backlist books they've gotten the rights to.

However, if you want to make the most money (especially on Amazon, which only allows authors to receive 70 percent in royalties if the book is priced at $ 2.99 or higher — $ 1.99 and $ 0.99 books only allow authors a 35 percent royalty rate), then $ 4.99 appears to be the best price point for selling a good amount of books (though far less than with a lower price point) while making the most in profit.

The best opportunities are in «hybrid» publishing, which means, doing the things that make you the most money and build your author platform (those two things are not identical, and often even at odds: as in, you may give one book away for free to reach new readers, and make money on other books you charge more on).

Then they found that they could make good money designing covers for other indie authors.

We have just come through a century where the publishing industry has developed better and better methods of making a profit off of authors while ceding zero control of the money flow to said authors.

Indie authors might be doing well right now selling their under priced e-books, but the Amazon is making more money right now selling physical books.

I would also suspect that many publishing - house - published authors, and Published Authors Network members, probably make insufficient money from their writings to fully support themselves, so are at best semi-profesauthors, and Published Authors Network members, probably make insufficient money from their writings to fully support themselves, so are at best semi-profesAuthors Network members, probably make insufficient money from their writings to fully support themselves, so are at best semi-professional.

When I tell these would - be authors the truth of the matter, as I have learned being in and around the publishing business for over twenty years, they decide that they should buy a few more lottery tickets because they have a better chance at making big money doing that, and it's a lot less work.

Luckily, I still make good money as an author.

Their end goal is providing the best possible outcome for consumers in order to retain customers, and less about making sure authors earn as much money as they can.

I can tell you right now, there are more of us «authors» in the comment section with multiple books published on multiple best seller lists, making good money no matter what you think or believe.

Tonight we chatted with fantasy author Abigail Hilton about making money from Patreon, audiobooks, and web comics as well as full - length novels.

But it's the ability to market books effectively that is the key to making really good money from writing e-books, according to author and entrepreneur Joanna Penn, who gave up a lucrative career to be a writer.

By bundling your work with other authors, particularly if they are in the same genre, you stand a greater chance of reaching new readers, as well as a better chance of making money in a «pay what you want» model.

In this course, I interview CJ Lyons, NY Times bestselling author, about traditional publishing, covering everything from finding an agent, pitching, how the publishing process works, how the money works, the pros and cons, details of contracts and what to watch out for as well as the biggest mistakes people make.

Because agents held the power (and the purse strings, as well, which was another business tradition that made no sense from the author's perspective — it boiled down to: «authors aren't good with money, so it is better to let the business - headed agent deal with it all.»

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I make SO much more money as an indie author, and sales of my self - pubbed version of the book that small press put out are much bigger because I sell at a more attractive price (2.99 compared to 5.50) and I have a better cover (a fun, custom illustration depicting my exact characters rather than a $ 10 stock photo image.)

The advance we pay and terms of the contract are part of those costs that effect what we make... as well as all the other costs in manufacturing, promotion, overhead, etc.... We hope we build the author and that they make money on the way with us.

Remember, most e-readers count and display best - sellers on actual units sold, not how much money the author has made.

If more top - selling authors forge ahead with similar self - publishing moves, that could weigh further on publishers, which depend on their big money - making best sellers to pull in the majority of profits, and help fund lesser - known writers.

A year ago, I don't think anybody would have predicted that Janklow and Nesbitt were going to make a deal to self - publish books of their best authors whose books were out of print or who wanted to make more money on their royalties.

Money is the number one cause of divorce, but David Bach, author of the best - selling Smart Women Finish Rich, makes the taboo topic approachable.

This obviously is in an authors best interest to promote the fact their book is on Prime, because in many cases, lending your book out for free makes you more money then selling it for.99.

Besides the author, the publisher has to invest in a decent editor, a cover artist (and probably cost for the images on the cover as well, models have to make money too), then you have a line editor, possibly a different galley editor, promotions department (depending on how big the company is), then with paperbacks you'd have print costs, distribution costs, freight, advertising....

Griese points out that, according to the law of averages, authors who use a subsidy publisher will not make money on their books, although other benefits (credibility, speaking engagements, building brand, and so forth) may well accrue, rendering the book publishing effort worwhile.

They might spend some money on services: paying someone to make them a better cover and formatting, maybe paying for an author website.

But I also think self - publishing works fabulously well for the author committed to spending the time, energy, and money into making it a success.

If you want a good laugh, read this article also published by Ros Barber, mentioned at the beginning of this piece) about how, as an award - winning, traditionally published author, she's not making a lot of money.

Publishers made money while millions of authors continued to live in squalor.The publishing world was difficult to break if you did not have real good connections and had a real good story to tell in your book.

Nancy Nagle, best - selling author, stated that she makes little money outside the Amazon platform, so KDP Select pays out big time for her.

If you want to make a good living and be able to pay your bills, and travel, and save money, and do all the things you need to do to live a decent life AS AN AUTHOR then you need to figure out if BEING AN AUTHOR is for you.

Of course, Hugh Howey makes the point often that the outliers are not the success story of self - publishing, that we should be talking about the thousands of indies making good money, decent money, reaching readers and loving their lives as authors.