How to Make a Living with Your Writing
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How to Make a Living with Your Writing

Turn Your Words into Multiple Streams Of Income

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eBook - ePub

How to Make a Living with Your Writing

Turn Your Words into Multiple Streams Of Income

About this book

Do you want to make a living with your writing?Do you want to turn your words into multiple streams of income?

I'm Joanna Penn and I left my corporate job a decade ago to become a full-time author entrepreneur. In this completely updated Third Edition, I'll explain how I make a living with my writing and share tips from other writers on how you can do it too with practical, actionable advice that you can implement for yourself.

If you love to create and you're ready to learn fresh skills in a fast-changing environment, this book will give you lots of ideas on how to make money with your words.

Each chapter provides ideas you can use to research each opportunity in more detail and questions to guide your thought process. Sometimes it's just about knowing what's out there in order to find what's right for you.

The book includes:

Introduction

First principles Part 1: How to Make Money with Books

1.1 Your publishing options and how the industry has changed

1.2 Your book is a valuable intellectual property asset

1.3 Traditional publishing

1.4 Self-publishing or becoming an indie author

1.5 Write more books

1.6 Write books that people want to buy

1.7 Publish in multiple formats

1.8 Publish globally

1.9 Sell direct to your audience

1.10 Market your books Part 2: How to Make Money with your Writing in Other Ways

2.1 Your author ecosystem

2.2 Affiliate income

2.3 Crowdfunding, patronage and subscription

2.4 Professional speaking, teaching, performing, and live events

2.5 Online courses, webinars, events, and membership sites

2.6 Advertising and sponsorship

2.7 Physical products and merchandise

2.8 Freelance writing and ghostwriting

2.9 Consulting or coaching

2.10 Author services

2.11 Other ways to make money with your writing

The transition to making a living with your writing

If you want to make a living with your writing, download a sample or buy now!

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Appendix 1: Resources by Chapter

You can download this list at TheCreativePenn.com/makealivingdownload

First principles

  • The Successful Author Mindset: A Handbook for Surviving the Writer’s Journey — Joanna Penn
  • Mindset: Changing the Way You Think to Fulfil Your Potential — Dr Carol Dweck
  • Your Author Business Plan: Take Your Author Career to the Next Level — Joanna Penn
  • List of useful money books and podcasts — www.TheCreativePenn.com/moneybooks
  • Yaro Starak’s Blog Profits Blueprint, regularly updated with best practices for making a living online — www.TheCreativePenn.com/BlogBlueprint
  • Interview with Yaro Starak on freedom and long-term thinking — www.TheCreativePenn.com/yarofreedom
  • Author Blueprint — www.TheCreativePenn.com/blueprint
  • Authors Guild Report on author earnings — www.authorsguild.org/industry-advocacy/six-takeaways-from-the-authors-guild-2018-authors-income-survey/
  • UK Authors’ Earnings and Contracts 2018 — www.create.ac.uk/blog/2019/05/02/uk-authors-earnings-and-contracts-2018-a-survey-of-50000-writers/
  • Books for writers by Kristine Kathryn Rusch and Dean Wesley Smith — www.wmgpublishinginc.com/writers

Part 1: How to Make Money with Books

1.1 Your publishing options and how the industry has changed

  • Free To Make: How the Maker Movement is Changing our Schools, Our Jobs and Our Minds — Dale Dougherty
  • Makers: The New Industrial Revolution — Chris Anderson
  • Writer’s Ink Podcast with hybrid author J.D. Barker and indie authors J. Thorn and Zach Bohannon. Conversations with traditional and indie authors around the publishing industry — WritersInkPodcast.com
  • The Book Business: What Everyone Needs to Know — Mike Shatzkin and Robert Paris Riger
  • US Publishers, Authors, Booksellers Call Out Amazon’s ‘Concentrated Power’ in the Market, Publishing Perspectives, August 2020 — www.publishingperspectives.com/2020/08/us-publishers-authors-booksellers-call-out-amazons-concentrated-power-in-the-book-market
  • How COVID-19 has pushed companies over the technology tipping point—and transformed business forever, McKinsey & Company —www.mckinsey.com/business-functions/strategy-and-corporate-finance/our-insights/how-covid-19-has-pushed-companies-over-the-technology-tipping-point-and-transformed-business-forever

1.2 Your book is a valuable intellectual property asset

  • The Copyright Handbook: What Every Writer Needs To Know — Stephen Fishman
  • Rethinking The Writing Business — Kristine Kathryn Rusch
  • Creative Self-Publishing: Make and Sell Your Books Your Way — Orna A. Ross
  • Selective Rights Licensing: Sell Your Book Rights At Home and Abroad — Orna A. Ross and Helen Sedwick
  • The Magic Bakery: Copyright in the Modern World of Fiction Publishing — Dean Wesley Smith
  • Closing the Deal … on Your Terms: Agents, Contracts and Other Considerations — Kristine Kathryn Rusch
  • Hollywood vs. The Author — Edited by Stephen Jay Schwartz
  • Empowering authors around copyright. Interview with Rebecca Giblin — TheCreativePenn.com/rebeccagiblin
  • The importance of editin...

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Dedication
  4. Contents
  5. Introduction
  6. First principles
  7. I. How to Make Money with Books
  8. II. How to Make Money with your Writing in Other Ways
  9. The transition to making a living with your writing
  10. Conclusion
  11. Need more help?
  12. Appendix 1: Resources by Chapter
  13. Appendix 2: Bibliography
  14. Appendix 3: List of Questions
  15. Appendix 4: Streams of Income Survey results
  16. More Books And Courses From Joanna Penn
  17. About Joanna Penn
  18. Acknowledgments
  19. Copyright