Introduction

The Alliance of Independent Authors released the results of their annual self-publishing income survey this week. The average author earned over $80,000 with almost a quarter not yet started to earn bringing in around 0 to 1,000. Michael Andalee's goal of 10,000 books in a year has been brought into the indie mainstream by flaming arrows hurled at him on social media. One of Johnny Truent's early novels Fat Vampire was option for a TV show and is now out as Reginald the vampire.