Others simply keep
on writing more books and in the long run hope to earn a full time income through their books only.
I would like to live in a world where authors who are very good at writing novels are compensated enough to continue to hone their craft and
write more books for me to enjoy.
Most authors start off self - publishing as a purely creative endeavor, with little expectation
around writing more books or earning a great deal.
By putting more creativity into your marketing, and boosting your sales and income, you'll be able to spend your creative
energy writing more books.
It's taken me a long time to become more confident in my fiction writing, and I have generally kept that on the back burner
whilst writing more books.
Kindle inspired me to want to
write more books because I was making money and it was very satisfying knowing that people liked my stories.
I'm a self - published author, and
while writing more books is great, I also need to focus on selling the one that is already out there to as many distribution platforms as possible.
Striving to Be a Better Writer
by Writing More Book Marketing — You've Got ta Have a Blog Writing, Submissions, and Working with Editors
In other words, they can do the mundane tasks that tend to swallow up a lot of your time, so that you can focus on things that are more important to moving closer to your self - publishing goals
like writing more books.
Amazon's philosophy was the opposite: more
writers writing more books for more readers at lower prices with better financial terms for the content creators.
I am a big fan of John Templeton and am disappointed he did
not write more books on his investment philosophy.
You'll have more success writing in the same genre where you've set an expectation, and being more familiar with the one genre will also allow you to
write more books quickly to satisfy your paying readers.
Thanks to all the people who have actually bought a copy of one of my books, I hope you aren't just giving me false hope to carry on and end up wasting years of my life for nothing (search eBook piracy is on the increase) I have
put writing any more books on hold, keep it all inside my head and just make a living from teaching and being an examiner.
As a KU reader, this is an important issue, because appropriately reimbursed
authors write more books, giving me more to read.
But the point is I always believed I would find a market for my books and develop a readership, and I did whatever it took to create one — one of the largest things being
continually writing more books and honing my craft, which I still do to this day.
Last week at the Sydney Writers Festival, it was pointed out that literary fiction doesn't sell and one of the panel asked authors to «
please write more books that sell».
This
involves writing more books, writing in a series, writing in different genres and of different length and exploiting various rights such as Audio, Print, and e-Book formats.
I would say that you need to be persistent with your writing efforts
by writing more books, ensure you create different formats for your book (print, digital, audio, translations), and do a lot of marketing via reviews, social media, and business cards / bookmarks, advertising your books.