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The Prolificacy Premium: Why One Book Is Never Enough

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Here’s a number that’ll either inspire you or make you want to take up woodworking instead: authors earning over $20,000 per month have published an average of 61 books. Sixty-one books! That’s not a typo, and it’s not an accident. Meanwhile, most aspiring authors are still polishing their first manuscript, convinced that if they just … Read more

Why Your First Book Will Probably Lose Money (And Why That’s Okay)

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In my last post I shared some brutal income data relevant to us indie writers that was eye opening, to say the least. More like a poke in the vitreous humor! Well, today I want to dig deeper into something that might sound even more discouraging at first: your first book is almost certainly going … Read more