Episode 097 - Taking the Long View for Publishing Success with JK Ellem
The Indy Author Podcast
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Making a Living at Writing
I used to have a 53-day first draft cycle, which meant that if I was writing 1500 words a day in 53 days, I'd have a first draft roughly of an 80,000-word book. And so I made a commercial decision that pulled my word count back from 80,000 to 65,000. That's the commercial decision and sell that comfortably and make 20% paperback royalty on Amazon. Not many people tell you that. You had to price books that are 80,000, 90,000, 100,000 words. But mine weren't selling for my crime thriller, psychological thriller, domestic thriller, genre. They're browsing mass market pay-per-backs at
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