How to Make Money Writing a Book

By Miguel Dos Anjos 

           The most sold books are fiction: romance, sci-fi, and fantasy. A second great market is non-fiction on any niche you are a specialist, or expert at. The more valuable the information, and content of your book the better.

Start Writing

                Many of us always wanted to write a book, but always put it off, thinking it’s too much work, or having no idea how, or where to start. The best way is to just start writing. For me particularly; laying down sub titles as the skeleton of the book, and then focusing on writing one chapter at a time. When just focusing on writing one chapter, at a time, around a 1k words, the job seems easier and more doable. If we only think about the entire book, the task seems enormous, terrifying, or impossible to be accomplished. Once we divide the work in parts it is much more manageable.

                Finding a quiet place is helpful for most writers.

                Another thing that slows the book writing process down is trying to make it perfect the first time around; writing 4, or 5 words, and then backspacing a word, or 2 making sure it’s all perfect. By now I have realized that, trying to achieve perfection the first time around wastes time, and instead; I just start writing, and keep writing letting all the ideas come out and go into the paper or screen, I leave many grammatical errors, and rewording for later, making sure at that moment that the main idea is written or typed down before it slips away of my mind.

                There will be plenty of time later to proof read, and reword to perfection, which, then will be much easier since the main idea is already there. A book does not need to take a year or years to be written, also it does not need to be gigantic. Smaller more affordable books, or series of books are fine as well instead of one huge, and expensive book.

Publishing

                Publishing costs, and complications were the reason I put off writing a book for so long. Scared of all the costs involved, and how many book sales would be needed to generate a profit. But today there are ways around the publishing costs, and you can publish your book for free.

                There are many institutions that will publish your book for free, the biggest one of them is Amazon KDP, Kindle direct publishing. They will make your book available and let you keep up to 70% royalties of your book sales.

                The more different types or formats you make your book available the bigger your audience can be; such as online electronic book, paper back and/or also audible.     
            

Marketing

              

             You can write your book, make it available and collect profits every time a sale is made. Your book is your asset that can generate income for you long term. It is a great experience and achievement on itself.

You can let your sales just happen, or seek to maximize profits by advertising your book. How much marketing you do is entirely up to you:

-          You can mention it on social media such as tweeter, and Facebook.

-          Advertise on an email list.

-          KDP publishing offer free promotions.

-          You can make it free for a while to get people talking about it.

-          Divide the content into smaller, more affordable books. More people will take a shot spending $1 to $5 instead of $10 or more. If they liked one of your books they will come back for more.

-          You can make your book available in different languages.

-          You can set up book signing (traditional way). Can be done at a book store, book festival or anywhere.

-          And/or you can run an eBook signing with digital signature using an autography app.

Marketing or not, or how much marketing you do is your decision. 

If you already wrote a book, leave the book name, and link to access it in the comments down below.

If you want to write a book, let us know in the comments down below as well!

Happy writing, and happy sales!