The Money In Your Books

12. 12. 07

I’ve never been more proud of anyone than I am of Oprah. She believes in integrity, and she found that in Obama. When she found it, she stepped out of her role and went for that person.

Marti Tucker

Making money from your books:

The Big Boys make you think that’s literary cute to claim the title, “the starving writer,” the way it has always been, the way it’s supposed to be. Try telling that to the Danielle Steele’s of this world. They make big money because their volume has grown so big over the years that a 10% return is a huge amount of money three times a year, or whenever the publisher pays. Such writers are like machines turning out intrigue after intrigue. But if you’re working 24/7 to sell 5.000 books at @ $15.00 that’s only $75,000, and your share of only 10% is $7,500. If you’re averaging $21,000 a year you can’t afford a nice new car, or home, or live above the poverty line. So what I’m talking about is making real money from self-publishing your work. I’m talking to you writers who want to make a lot of money writing and publishing, to those who want to eat while you’re writing the great American novel. So let’s see how that can happen:

1) Well written: whether fiction or nonfiction, you can’t just string a lot of words on a page and hope a lot of people will pay you for it. You need to dig deep and figure out how to get the reader’s heart to pumping, and his brain to jumping. You need seductive details based on knowledge or research, or in my case, both. In the case of my novel, “The Mayor’s Wife Wore Sapphires,” I wanted to say and prove that Black people are too divided for real progress. So stop it! Now when you decide what you want to say, you can write your book in 60 days. With writing only five pages a day, you’ll have 300 pages. Edit it in 30 days. In 90 days, you’ll have a book that can make money. Great isn’t it, especially since it took me ten years to write my book. Because I know better now, you don’t have to go through that kind of torture. And you won’t have a thrown-together, shallow book either. Next, we’ll talk about how to get the required intrigue of a bestseller.

PULL OUT OF THE CROWD AND BECOME KNOWN:

I found this TV studio that can make anyone a star. What do you think that will do for you novel, your book, and your children’s stories? This studio is the wave of the near future, and I joined. As soon as my camera arrives, you will see my studio on this blog. If you want a shot at being a bestseller go to: writelink@vmdirect.com.
Also: writelink@helloworld.com

Till next time.
Marti Tucker

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