ellegriffin

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by ellegriffin 5y ago
Agree.
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by ellegriffin 5y ago
It's interesting because reading is so subjective. I think I've only ever liked a "best selling" book once or twice, because I like things that are severely strange and that is not to commercial tastes. So it's hard
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by ellegriffin 5y ago
Yes! I actually interviewed Andy Weir for another piece for this exact reason. https://ellegriffin.substack.com/p/publishing-industry-truth
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by ellegriffin 5y ago
Thank you!!!! This is very helpful. Looks like they aren't tagged as fiction which is why I couldn't find them. I'll definitely dig into these as some amazing case studies!
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by ellegriffin 5y ago
Ha! I definitely won't...
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by ellegriffin 5y ago
Very excited to check this one out. Thank you!
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by ellegriffin 5y ago
I disagree that fiction by top publishing houses tend to be more lucrative for the author. I wrote an article about that one too if you're interested. https://ellegriffin.substack.com/p/publishing-industry-truth
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by ellegriffin 5y ago
This is great!
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by ellegriffin 5y ago
This is the best thing I ever heard of. I want nothing more than permission to write badly and still love it.
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by ellegriffin 5y ago
ME TOO. I pretty much only read classics. They are just so philosophically complex! I wish that we read now, like we read then. But I suppose television and video content are an art in their own way, and I could adapt my writing preferences
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by ellegriffin 5y ago
Well reasonable is a whole other thing. And I'm definitely not being reasonable! :)
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by ellegriffin 5y ago
This is certainly valid, but it also assumes the current publishing model (as in, how could I, one writer, make $100,000 of the $28 billion pie). Which also assumes that I would need to reach mass appeal (re: sell lots of copies) as an auth
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by ellegriffin 5y ago
Oh I've heard that. The classic "third book" being the one that goes viral. (Gillian Flynn, Dan Brown, etc.) I agree with you on considering most books (most books don't market), but even trying to learn from the success
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by ellegriffin 5y ago
Right, exactly. And we could learn from spotify (pay the creators more). But the ebook library is huge now and could easily be transformed. The only problem is that they aren't charging a monthly subscription fee (like Spotify) and so
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by ellegriffin 5y ago
Yes! Exactly! Right now the ebook library model is based off the physical book library model where the library purchases a certain number of ebooks (say 10) and the author only gets a portion of the royalties on those ten copies, and then t
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by ellegriffin 5y ago
NFTs are trying to solve for this, but I'm not sure how mainstream that will become. For instance: https://emily.mirror.xyz/0AFENlMKv9amUC1OJIZY26udpISw_raXkoE... In this case, Emily crowdfunded her novel using the cry
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by ellegriffin 5y ago
These are amazing! Thank you so much for sharing. I will look into these as case studies.
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by ellegriffin 5y ago
These are great, thank you! They didn't show up in the fiction category, but makes sense since they are using other terminology. I'll definitely look into these as case studies!
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by ellegriffin 5y ago
Yes, I am basing that off the research I did for this article: https://ellegriffin.substack.com/p/publishing-industry-truth "Most books peak in the first 10 weeks after their debut, then exit the market." Thi
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by ellegriffin 5y ago
I would call it more of a hope than an expectation. Really what I'm trying to figure out is if it's possible to monetize a niche audience (with fiction content) and make a living from it. I guess we'll find out... And thanks
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by ellegriffin 5y ago
I don't think I'm greedy for trying to see if a 100k salary would be possible. I've made that as a writer and editor throughout my career, why not hope for it as a novelist? (or at least try for it!). It might not turn out th
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by ellegriffin 5y ago
I love this. Thank you for sharing!
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by ellegriffin 5y ago
This is so relatable. I hunt out obscure books, but that's because I love really old surreal things and that is not the norm. And that's why only a few books get all the sales. Because they are the ones that turn up on Goodreads&#
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by ellegriffin 5y ago
Yes, I think there's a strong possibility this might wind up being the case. My idea is only a working hypothesis as I try to figure out a model that will work for the fiction author and right now I'm banking on the idea that it U
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by ellegriffin 5y ago
I used to be that way. I created social media accounts this year (and started writing this newsletter) because I realized it was the only way to get my work read. There are so many amazing books out there that only ever see a couple readers
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by ellegriffin 5y ago
I fully agree. In fact, I think (hope) that most of the writers who are selling only hundreds of copies of their books are actually just bad marketers. I think this is why the myth of the Big Four publishing house exists, because those publ
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by ellegriffin 5y ago
Yes, I totally understand that there are authors earning money from their AO3, royal road accounts. But, very few are making a living doing it. Jemisin was an exception. Of the fiction writers that currently have a Patreon account: "on
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by ellegriffin 5y ago
Oh, yes you are correct there. In online sales only (I don't have the brick & mortar numbers). So to your point, people are buying books, it's just that they are all buying the same top selling books. And thank you!!!!! I&#x27
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by ellegriffin 5y ago
Hmmmm, I think you're looking at that table wrong. Ten titles sold between 500,000 and one million copies (not 5-10 million copies). And 267 titles sold between 100,000 and 500,000 copies, (not in the millions). That top line is the hi
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by ellegriffin 5y ago
Thank you!

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