| In this day and time, a lot of people are writing | | | | write your novel, build a website (or have one |
| ebooks, self publishing, listening to audio books, | | | | built for you), and offer it for sale all on your own. |
| etc. Aspiring writers are always looking high and | | | | Will this make you a multi-millionaire though? Oh, |
| low for new and interesting tips on writing a | | | | probably not, but what if you then approach the |
| novel, but the beginning writer nowadays also | | | | publisher after showing that people can and will |
| may wonder: Is it still lucrative to write a book? | | | | purchase what you have written. Wouldn't that |
| Back "in the day," you could expect to make | | | | make it possibly easier to get published? I bet it |
| quite a lot of money just by getting one novel | | | | would. |
| published and out there on the bookshelves. Is | | | | Because at that point you would not be |
| that still true today? | | | | considered so much of a risk. The publishing house |
| Well it could be, but maybe it's not quite as easy | | | | would be able to see first-hand that you are able |
| as it once was. It is terribly easy now to simply | | | | to sell your book, and the bottom line is sales, |
| publish your own book, put up a website, and | | | | after all. |
| offer it for sale online. Big fat advances from | | | | Any way that gets your name out there as a |
| publishers, especially to novice first-time writers, | | | | writer of fiction is still a great way to make |
| are not so plentiful. | | | | money, whether publishing your work online |
| But guess what. You can actually make a ton of | | | | yourself or having it published by one of the big |
| money doing what I mentioned above. You can | | | | houses. |