Romance author documents the income she actually received from a NY Times best seller
Here’s an excellent report from author Lynn Viehl’s experience and income with a mass market publisher for the book Twilight Fall which broke through to the NY Times best seller list. She calls herself in the “Top 20â€.
It was originally posted April 17 at the Genreality blog which receives contributions from a number of active Romance writers.
The Reality of a Times Bestseller.
http://www.genreality.net/the-reality-of-a-times-bestseller
Lynn provides some valuable insights and hard data on the income she derived.
Her experience provides ample evidence why self publishing might actually be a better choice for people who do write quality books and generate a following of avid loyal readers.
A self publisher who makes $5 on a book and who sells 10,000 books (200 books in each of 50 states) will receive just about as much as she did, on market sales of 100,000 copies.