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The author of The Legend of Randidly Ghosthound $5262/month: https://www.patreon.com/puddles4263 https://www.patreon.com/puddles4263 The author of Azarinth Hea
by Aerroon 5y ago
The author of The Legend of Randidly Ghosthound $5262/month: https://www.patreon.com/puddles4263 https://www.patreon.com/puddles4263
The author of Azarinth Healer has 3317 patrons at $2 minimum: https://www.patreon.com/RhaegarRRL https://www.patreon.com/RhaegarRRL
Basically, you can look through RoyalRoad, Scribblehub, WebNovel, and various other places where quite a few people seem to find success. And that's not even mentioning the people who write novels and publish them on Amazon.
>None of these are conventionally established authors as far as I can tell.
They're not. Or at least were not. They wrote web novels and acquired success because people liked their stories.
- ellegriffin 5y agoThese are amazing! Thank you so much for sharing. I will look into these as case studies.
- Aerroon 5y agoOne more thing to consider is that some (many?) of these authors are from poorer countries. $1500 a month for them might go a lot further.
- CobrastanJorji 5y agoThere's also the path of the "Kindle Unlimited" after-the-fact self-publisher. I've seen several times now where an author does this: 1. Publish their novel serially on a site like Royal Road. Build up a subscriber base, get on the leaderboards, try to grow. 2. Publish it to Kindle Unlimited. Kindle Unlimited requires that no other copies be available online, so remove it all from the original site. 3. Continue writing new content as "book 2" on the original sites to try and stay discoverable and on top of the leaderboards. Hope new readers will read the first few books on Amazon, thereby finally earning some money.