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Don't write a book for the royalties. Books are far more valuable as marketing for your expertise. A single consulting gig (of a week or two) will likely pay m
by morgante 10y ago
Don't write a book for the royalties. Books are far more valuable as marketing for your expertise.
A single consulting gig (of a week or two) will likely pay more than the entire revenue of even a successful technical book.
- tacostakohashi 10y agoThis is the key, from the authors I've talked with. As everyone has said, it's a monstrous amount of work for a nominal amount of money. An abstract "feather in my cap" isn't enough to make it worthwhile. Don't do it unless you have a specific, credible plan to make it worthwhile by providing consulting, training, speaking at conferences and the like.
- netman21 10y agoThis. But keep in mind that books generate consulting gigs. My first book probably earned $4,000 in royalties over the last six years. But I got a $10K speaking gig in Columbia almost immediately and a three year engagement in Australia at $24K/year not to mention business class seats to Sydney once a year.