Interesting facts - Author Video Transcripts
Video 1 Transcript
Interesting facts about being an author. I don't know if this is all that interesting or not, but this may turn a lot of people away. Most authors don't make any money. They don't make any real money at all. They're not very successful. In fact, I want to say it's only about 50% of all authors that even break even because it costs money to make a book. It costs money to make and produce a book because you have to pay for book covers, editing, developmental editing, beta readers, advertising, marketing strategies, buying a website, all kinds of stuff. It costs money to make books. If you're going to do an audio book, you're talking about thousands of dollars as an investment. And most people don't make a lot of money. But, but, if you can write that one series that hits the market just right, all of a sudden you're doing okay and you have a backlog.
Video 2 Transcript
So here's an interesting fact. Only 1% of people that start a book actually finish it. So if you can finish a book, if you can just sit your bum down and keep working and keep working and finish that book, you are already 99% better than anybody else. So you're already almost to publication right there. Then you just got to edit it. Then you just got to work on it and rewrite it and get it pretty.
Video 3 Transcript
I hope this is interesting. But one thing I love about writing is that you just don't have to nail it on the first time, right? Like other, you know, actors, if you're on stage, right, that kind of thing, they just have to nail it. You can sit down and just work it through over and over and over again. Like to think of the books that I write and the different drafts I do, I'd say on average I go through a book at least probably 20 times, right? From the beginning rough stages to go back through and just make sure it's good, make sure it's right, make sure the pacing is good, that I like the emotion through it. And that's hard to go through it that many times, but it's what makes it great, right? You can fiddle with it until you like it. And then you even have editors and people that help you get it right where you want it. So I think that's interesting. So keep writing and then go back through and make it even better.
