RE: How to Write Your First Ebook in 7 Days or Less! Chapter 1
BAHAHAHAHAHA! Yeah, I know Stephen King's work well, dude. I wrote this in one day originally, and never had it edited, so, I guess I've been reading Stephen in my head every time I've been over it. LOL Good catch. And no, that's not the only way to earn with Ebooks, and anyone only paying ghost writers $100, and I can seriously not be friends, because that is robbery. I get a minimum 10 cents a word, for crap I can write in my sleep. And, I have a list of dozens of authors that earn their livings from self-pubbed ebooks, with NOTHING on Amazon. It's all over the map. I think the only major author actually doing ghost writers any favors is James Patterson. Several of his collaborators have come out with an audience of their own, from what I've heard.
Yeah, I had a decent publisher until they closed down. I looked into small ebook presses that would take on new writers, but no one will take on a series in progress, which is why I started publishing myself in serial on Steemit. Unfortunately the only genre that really gets any traction is Romance, and that usually requires setting yourself in a niches, or doing commissioned NSFW stuff.
Until I find a steady income, I still have my day job teaching, so at least there's that. :)
I've got a buddy, 70 yrs old, retired engineer, writes traditional "space opera" scifi. He put his first novel on Amazon, made $20k on it the first year, get this, with no previous audience, no website, no social media presence, no email list. Now he's up to number 8 and his book sales are almost three times his retirement income, which he said is pretty comfortable. If I hadn't known him (Facebook) for three years and seen evidence of his total honesty, I'd think he wasn't sharing everything, but I can't find him anywhere, except on Amazon. So, you never know. Let me know if you'd like to chat about some possible collaboration. I'm working on several ideas. My fiction has been an uphill battle here for the last couple months. I'd like to try some interactive fiction. Most of the fiction getting decent payouts is doing so with paid votes, or on Adsactly, a big communal account that keeps about 3/4 of what the stories they share make. Just so you know, though, my fiction made me about $40k here last year. Now, if I could just get the books to go better. LOL
Find me on discord if you'd be interested in discussing something like that.