Sigrun never expected to become a millionaire. Entrepreneurship, for young girls in Iceland, was unrealistic. Becoming an expert entrepreneur who learned how to master the art of the product launch—forget it.
But sitting next to the radio, that six-year-old girl named…
Armed with a vision to help small business owners gain financial skills, Pam Prior embarked on a journey to entrepreneurship that would help her increase revenue and take control of her career.
It was late – after midnight, but too early to…
Aspiring authors often fixate on book sales revenue. They obsess over how many books they can possibly sell, how much they'll earn back per book sold, and exhausting efforts to build a platform so more people will buy. But what if we…
Buoyed by her mission, this author learned how to build broader appeal and improve her nonprofit marketing by reaching a smaller, overlooked audience with her own personal story.Â
J. René Walker stepped up to the podium looking poised and confident, but inside…
A common misconception is that authors must rely on book sales and royalties alone to make money writing. However, published writers have diverse revenue streams beyond book sales or traditional book contracts. In truth, nonfiction books in particular lend themselves to lucrative…
Dr. Maya Shetreat never imagined herself writing a book about psychedelic plants. A neurologist, speaker, entrepreneur, and author, she had already published a book with Simon and Schuster. But writing a second book, for her, wasn’t an expectation, especially in order to…
From the beginning, speaking engagements were integral to Faizun Kamal's success.
Her business, The Franchise Pros, was already on a healthy trajectory, consistently growing year after year. Using speaking engagements to help with that growth, Faizun often found herself telling the story…
 I’ve talked to three authors this week who admitted that what they Really, Most Deeply want is not to have a book as a calling card or to make money from speaking or coaching BUT to be a full-time professional writer.  What we…
Angela Lauria, Publisher Difference Press
For the first half of my publishing career (from 1994 to 2010) I worked on fifty-six book projects and while I knew how to make money writing, I never really understood how the money side of publishing worked.…
Today's authors have a smorgasbord of options at their fingertips, from traditional publishing to self-publishing and hybrid models. But with this expanded buffet of choices comes a pressing question: how much do book authors make?
The truth is, author incomes can vary…