10. Make money writing a novel

You don’t have to be signed up to a big publishing company to be a best-selling author nowadays.

You can write your own eBook, market yourself and sell far more copies than most authors do on paper.

The Kindle e-reader is particularly popular – the electronic reading device accounts for 60% of the eBook market so that’s the best one to publish on.

Sure there is a LOT to writing a book and even more to getting people to read it.

It may be true that ‘everyone has a book in them’ but many of those books should never see the light of day!

Be aware that it takes a LOT of effort to market your book once you have mastered the work of actually writing it, designing it and turning it into a pdf.

If you are going to try to promote and sell it yourself you will need to:

push it through social media possibly advertise it through Google Adwords do as much offline publicity as you can probably set up a blog or website to sell it and get people to sign up to regular updates from you and more…

So, this is not an easy option, but if you think you have a really good idea for a book – particularly a non-fiction, how-to kind of book – then go for it.

All you need is a computer and the will to get on with the writing.

Or if you’d prefer to write something shorter, then find out how to make money writing short stories.