For those of you who frequent the Warrior Forum, you know there have been several WSOs about how to make money writing fiction for the Amazon Kindle. Can you make money as a fiction writer? Yes. Is it easy? No. Allow me to share a little bit of perspective from my experience...
For the last few months, mainly due to work demands and because I found myself spending so much time on forums (and not enough doing stuff to make money), I stepped back from virtually all forum activity to focus on a few different business models to see which had the most promise. While there may be a handful of people who strike gold quickly in Internet marketing, the truth is that far more people LOSE money in IM than make money. And the reason is that most people spend years searching desperately for the "get rich quick" solutions so often promised by hyped-up headlines. When people get emotional and desperate, reason goes out the window. This kind of thing is now happening with many Internet marketers who are looking for gold at the end of the Amazon Kindle rainbow. You CAN make money writing fiction for the Amazon Kindle, but it's NOT going to be easy and quick...no matter what WSO or marketer tells you otherwise.
For the last several months, I've written several nonfiction eBooks that are selling fairly well on the Amazon Kindle. Three of them are actually Amazon bestsellers in their respective categories. I'm not making a ton of money, but a little bit of residual income each month is nice. After seeing the success in my nonfiction titles (which I'm still working on), I decided to try fiction. I purchased several WSOs and eBooks about writing fiction, and began applying some of those methods. What I found, though, is that it's a whole lot easier to buy a WSO or eBook about writing fiction than it is to actually WRITE fiction. :)
So far, I've written and published a handful of fiction titles....all under pen names. I am not making as much money with fiction as with nonfiction, BUT...I can see that may very well change in the next few months, because now I have a system and a direction. If you're interested in learning more, I wrote a post over at the Warrior Forum about coming up with plot/story ideas for your Kindle fiction...
http://www.warriorforum.com/main-internet-marketing-discussion-forum/590052-how-generate-plot-ideas-your-kindle-fiction.html#post6153356While I focus on Kindle, the same principles hold true for Smashwords, the Nook, or any other eBook platform. Or for that matter, print platform.
I'm no Stephen King. :) My fiction eBooks are not Pulitzer Prize literary masterpieces by any means. I'm learning as I go, but it's fun.
If you're interested in writing fiction on the Kindle and making money, it's definitely worth checking into. But don't make the mistake of buying into all the hype. Making money online (whether it's how-to or fiction) is a business and it involves WORK. In the case of writing fiction, the work can be fun, but it's still work.
Any other fiction writers want to share some tips, ideas, perspectives?
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