111 Tips To Make Money With Writing

Doris-Maria Heilmann

Description

Now more important than ever: to make more money with writing!Does Writing for a Living Sound too Good to be True?Achieve your writing work from the comfort of your home or at a favorite cafe, or while vacationing on a sun-filled, breezy island ... Discover how to create your own satisfying, well-paid writing career. Writing for a living doesn't mean you have to wait forever until royalties rolling in. Do you want to use your excellent writing skills and experiences to build the life of your dreams - where you don't have to report to a boss or to an office? Where you work when you want, from wherever you want, on projects you enjoy?Use your book's manuscript to extend your revenues, find tons of freelance writing opportunities in this author guide, and learn everything about grants, crowd-funding, fellowships, writing contests, or writer vacations in beautiful, tranquil, yet free residencies.Writing for a living offers lots of advantages - you get to choose when and where you work, and with whom. But it's not enough to say you want to make a living as a writer; you need to know HOW. You need a concrete plan to bridge the gap between where you are now to where you want to be. This book shows you exactly the many possibilities to become a full-time writer - with a lot more than 111 tips - how to make a great living from writing. It also shows how to use your manuscripts and blogs to teach online, create successful podcasts, or get speaking assignments.

Sujets

• Microeconomics

Informations

• Publié par: 111Publishing
• Date de parution: 01 janvier 2021
• Nombre de lectures: 2
• EAN13: 9781988664088
• Langue: English

Extrait

111 Tips to Make Money With Writing
The Art of Making a Living Full-time Writing




An Essential Guide for More Income as Freelancer



Copyright © 2018 Doris-Maria Heilmann
Publisher: 111Publishing
ISBN: 978-1-988664-08-8
All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without permission in writing from the author.



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Table of Contents
Introduction
Overview
HOW TO Leverage Your Books
Distributing to More Retailers
Sell From Your Own Website
Audiobooks
Hardcover Books
Foreign Rights
Global Rights Network Platforms
Copy Royalties
Write More to Promote Your Books
Prequels and Sequels
Short Stories
Writing Contests
Writing at Platforms
Guest Blogs
Write Guest Posts for High-Traffic Blogs
FREELANCE WRITING
Writing Opportunities
Freelance Writing Tips
Write Sponsored Posts
Writing for Magazines and Newspapers
Freelance Platforms
Find Even More Money
Grants, Fellowships, and Residencies
Teaching
Affiliate Marketing
Podcasts
Video Scripts
Crowdfunding
MORE USEFUL TIPS FOR WRITERS
Legal – Writer Beware
Income Tax
Digital Nomads
Resources
About the Author



Introduction
I have heard it too many times: “I would love to quit my day job and write full-time.” However, when I ask the writer what he or she is doing to achieve this, I get only blank stares or a hushed “I just need to sell more books.”
Why not start to transform your dream into reality now and use your creativity to do what you love most: writing? This book provides ideas on how to leverage your existing manuscripts and book rights. But it also shows you how to use your writing skills and creativity to make money outside of books: Freelance Writing Tips Writing Sponsored Posts Writing for Magazines and Newspapers Using Freelance Platforms Grants, Fellowships, and Residencies Teaching Affiliate Marketing Creating Podcasts Selling Your Photos Online Starting a Crowdfunding Campaign
Last, but not least: Useful tips for writers, such as legal tips “Writer Beware”, Income Tax tips, all about Digital Nomads, and lots of resources for more info.
Every chapter contains useful links to save you a lot of Google time. However, this book shows only a fraction of the resources we can offer our readers. Please send us an email requesting more addresses and links, and we will email you the latest listings and offers. You can find our contact website form and email after the last chapter.



Overview
Whether you have sold the publishing rights for your book or are self-publishing, the main question is how to earn money with your art. Only those who have written a book know how much time and effort such an endeavor requires. It starts with research, then outlining, writing, revising, and many rounds of editing.
The Demands of Publishing
Published authors, who generally receive no or small advances and only eight to twelve percent in royalties, hold their breath until they receive their sales statements. And self-published authors? They have to invest in professional editing, cover design, layout and formatting, and maybe distribution. Then there are the most important tasks, the creation of a professional author platform, the book marketing, and promotion—all while writing the next book.
Publishing might raise two questions: How can you wring the most royalties out of your book, and how can you make even more money from other ways of writing to quit your full-time job?
Monetizing Your Books
You can choose to make money from your books via several avenues:
Distribution to More Retailers
Don’t put all your eggs in one basket. Diversify! No business sells to only one retailer. Upload your book to all sales channels and all countries or use a distributor to do so for you.
Your Website
Nowhere else can you receive such high revenues as for book sales from your own website. Inexpensive and easy-to-install e-commerce programs allow you to sell print and digital versions of your book.
Audiobooks
Repurpose your manuscript to create more than just a book and an ebook. Why not additionally create an audiobook from your novel or even from a nonfiction work? Audiobooks have become immensely popular.
Hardcover
It is much easier to get a book into libraries if it’s been published in hardcover instead of paperback. Print-on-demand provider and distributor IngramSpark offers hardcover book production to self-publishers at affordable prices and in small quantities, not the huge orders common among commercial printers.
Foreign rights
Licensing your work in different formats and countries provides another income stream. You can set up all the information about your book, including prices for different formats and contract clauses, on digital platforms that are easy for agents and publishers around the world to find.
Copy royalties
You could be paid twice for your book. Services exist in many countries to help maximize your royalty income through secondary use of your works, and becoming a member of such services is often free. In Canada, join Access Copyright. In the United States, the Copyright Clearance Center (CCC) compensates publishers and creators for the use of their work. Great Britain has the Authors’ Licensing and Collecting Society (ALCS), and Germany has VG Wort.
Writers Too Often Focus on Books
You’re not naive to think you could earn a living through something you love, and the promise of creativity and personal freedom attracts many writers. Working as a writer offers lots of advantages, such as choosing when and where you work and with whom. However, as making money from books takes a while, often a long while, it is better not to rely on writing books but rather on WRITING.
Do What You Love Most: Writing
Marketing, promoting, and spending lots of time on social media are not activities authors cherish, but what about promoting books through writing? You can do what you love most and get paid at the same time. You know how to write a novel, but you also need to learn how to write shorter pieces and how to write for the web, where readers have shorter attention spans. All these skills can be acquired at classes on and offline, at workshops through writers’ associations and beta-reading groups, at book fair programs, at writers’ conferences, and certainly at college classes. Writing more books Writing short stories Writing prequels Writing sequels Writing blog articles Writing guest blogs Writing for literary contests
Freelance writing possibilities, such as these are also available: Writing for magazines Writing newspaper articles Writing website copy Writing resumes and cover letters Writing sales copy
Leverage Your Writing and Your Research
These opportunities don’t require you to create completely new stories or articles. In many cases, you can leverage your books and blogs and divide, rewrite, shorten, or add new content to chapters to “repurpose” your inventory. Another strategy is to use the content of your manuscript research and create new stories or articles.
For example, you could repurpose the research and content from a novel taking place in medieval Great Britain or a travelogue about a trip to Europe by writing an article about horse stables for equestrian magazines, one about the fantastic gardens in Great Britain for garden magazines, one about how to travel on a budget to European cities for a frugal living magazine, one about U.K. biking paths for a bike magazine, a feature about pumpkin seed pressing in Austria for gourmet magazines, one about a historic flax or wool mill in France for a sewing or craft magazine, a photo feature from a boutique hotel for a fine interior decorating magazine, one about dressing for city trips without looking like a tourist for fashion or lifestyle magazines… The possibilities are endless.
Here are more writing services you can provide from the quiet of your own home: Copyediting Proofreading Indexing Ghostwriting Copywriting
The good news is that instead of desperately trying to sell your book via social media postings or advertisements, you can achieve the same result by diversifying your writing. These avenues are also more fun, allowing you to gain readers, create a huge portfolio, and are fantastic ways to get your name out there.
Plus, you get paid—and in some instances you’re able to promote your books in your byline. With an equal time investment, you earn more and faster than you would through writing books. The more you write, the better your craft evolves.



HOW TO Leverage Your Books
Distributing to More Retailers
Don’t put all your eggs in one basket. Diversify! No business sells to only one retailer, so upload your book to all sales channels and all countries or use a distributor to do so for you. Carla King compares the two largest distributors in a detailed article at http://authorfriendly.com/compare-ingramspark-amazon-createspace-author-publisher-royalty .
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