Sentences with phrase «authors making the big money»

Most of the authors making the big money have been doing this for many years, and most indies making $ 5000 — $ 10,000 a month have at least 5 books.

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In Why Smart People Make Big Money Mistakes, authors Gary Belsky and Thomas Gilovich cite a Harvard study of investment habits.

She went on to become a bestselling author, have a much bigger impact in the hormone space, and make a lot more money online.

Adam is the author of 7 books including Lead The Field, 21 Ways to Build Your Business with a Book and Book The Business: How to Make Big Money With Your Book Without Even Selling a Single Copy, the # 1 book on marketing for authors that he co-authored with marketing legend Dan Kennedy.

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Some of the greatest works in literature had authors who made little or no money at all from writing, yet I would never Dane myself with being their superior because I have a big house featured on my title page.

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.

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.

Only the big - time authors make real money from public speaking engagements.

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.)

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.

We know the old saying: You have to spend money to make money — but a lot of authors are on a limited budget — what can you offer authors who may not have the big funds for a splashy campaign?

I could pull samples from the 25 top small presses and publishers, showing off their ugly cover designs, to demonstrate what a poor choice these options are to authors (since the cover will be the biggest factor in your book's success, and small presses or services that charge a publishing fee skimp on quality design to make more money for themselves).

This trend will continue as independent editors start offering affordable editing services through the internet and first line authors start doing the math and realizing that they can make more money by self - publishing their books for $ 2.99 - $ 4.99 than they ever did by going with one of the «big six» publishers.

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....

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

The below figures will show that all of this is to say that you don't NEED to make any kind of big list to make money as an indie author.

The disadvantage is exclusivity — and some authors say they make a big chunk of money on other platforms.

In an interview with the Bookseller, Authors Guild President Roxana Robinson said «People write on Huffington Post, they write for Goodreads, they write for Medium.com: valuable sites owned by big tech companies that make a lot of money for those companies.

Most authors, including midlisters who make serious money from indie publishing, are not being flooded with offers from the Big 6.

For a writer to make any kind of decent money at indie - publishing, the author either has to have a lot of products selling at low levels, but regularly, or the author needs to hit it big like Amanda Hocking.

-LSB-...] Agent Janet Reid answers the question: why don't big name authors just self - publish and make even more money?

From what I've heard, the big publishers nowadays don't take on authors they don't think will make them money on the first book.

It is a sad truth that only the big guys are making money as authors; midlistters are starving to death and so are self - published folk.

But more importantly, indie authors have forever to make that money, whereas trad - pub authors have a few months to Launch Big or get pulled from the physical shelves.

After all, it makes sense, because more time and more money spent on books mean bigger compensation to the author.

After all, if you manage to make it big and become a famous author, they will benefit, as well as pocket a good sum of money.

Nor do the big publishers promote any but top ranking authors, the ones they make their money from.

Some agents are now buying small presses as they realize they can make more money publishing the authors they represent rather than waiting a year to get a book deal from a big house.

While the Big - Five published works make money, the author gets a small share of what the publisher makes regardless of how production costs are lower to produce eBooks to sell on Amazon.

Even though I know for a fact that my material is good (as it's based on high - end material that I have charged lots of money for via coaching) I'm not really into making a big song & dance about it and it seems that most successful self published authors are doing exactly that with «launches» etc..

What traditional publishers are doing is relying upon those handful of big name authors entirely as their publishing model, forgetting that the majority of their «other» sales are what makes them the money.

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Hopefully at some point of time it means indie authors can afford to stay indie and still make big money.

While the main source of income for Author Solutions has been authors purchasing services rather than readers purchasing books, I've no doubt «Big Publishers» wanted a better chance of making money off bookselling as well.

The only problem with this is that those authors demanding their rights back are the ones who have figured out that they can make money without having the «big name publisher» putting out their e-books.

Also be warned that a number of other big name publishers like Simon and Schuster, Harlequin, Thomas Nelson (owned by Harper Collins), and others have contracted with Author Solutions for their own money - making vanity press operations.

Provided you sell hundreds of thousands of books of course... So yes, don't expect self - publishing to wither away, there are still plenty of self - pubbed authors who make a lot of sales (and money), particularly in well - defined niche genres (romantic suspense is probably the biggest, as Bella Andre's success shows).

Just think about how a great book by an unknown will compete with a brand name author... Yes, life is tough, but again... why doesn't Amazon address the fact that it makes most of its money off of the same old same old, books that are either «built» by big publishers or by indies who often combine formulaic storytelling with full on marketing.

He runs through the findings of his Author Earnings report — a data - gathering exercise which suggests self - published authors are matching the big - five in ebook sales and making more money in the process — and answers critics who have cast doubt over his sweeping conclusions.

While the Big Six were shrinking advances, lists and print runs — and making increasingly unreasonable demands on authors — the Zon offered writers a new way to distribute their work and actually make money at it.

Gary Belsky, author of Why Smart People Make Big Money Mistakes and How to Correct Them, takes a look at the most common ways people screw up their investments, including biases and cognitive errors like overconfidence and confirmation bias.