How Much Money Have I Made Writing Self Published Books?
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- čas přidán 29. 01. 2020
- I’m both excited and really nervous to share my specific income and expense numbers as an indie author! Today, I’m talking about how I have made over one million dollars in profit as an indie author since I first started in late 2010. I begin sharing specific numbers at 5:41
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About Me: My name is Sarra Cannon, and I've been indie publishing since 2010. In that time, I have published 25 books and sold well over half a million copies.
I've made some mistakes along the way, but I've also learned some valuable lessons that I think will help you reach your goals. I can't wait to help you learn to make money writing what you love.
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It's not always easy to share specific numbers, so I just ask that you be respectful in the comments. I am not trying to compare myself to anyone! I am simply trying to provide my experience to help you know what's possible. Seeing other authors share their income when I was making a decision about what to do with my own career was extremely helpful, so I want to also give back by sharing my own experience and numbers. Negative or hateful comments will be deleted! That being said, thank you for your support and if you want to see more detailed videos or breakdowns by year or expenses, let me know!
Specific Numbers Discussion Begins at 5:41
Thank you for this. You're an inspiration, and your videos drive me. You give me hope, that I CAN make this my new career. Been at this for a year now. 2 published books, and a 3rd coming soon. Your anchor series helped me realize all the research I did the year before I became published was the right move. And I'm writing what I love!
Loved this video! Love the reminder of what is possible. I'm just getting started on my self publishing journey, with my debut release right around the corner in spring. I come to Heart Breathings a LOT to find information, inspiration, and honestly just to hear you talk, Sarra. 😊 Looking forward to the dragonfly story video!
Thank you for sharing, Sarra!😃💕
Thanks for sharing! That was brave.
Yes, please delete hateful comments.
love u love u love u , you are the best
Also thank you for not only inspiring me but also my 13 year old daughter. Since she's started writing (she has over 6000 words written in her first book) I've seen her confidence grow and she's really starting to bloom. So again I say thank you.
Wow!! That's amazing!!!
That's great! she can do this!
She can do it!!! Get it girl!!
Im late to this, but if you see it, please let your daughter know we are rooting for her, and we belive in her!
When I was in high school I was friends with someone who published a book! And she was a teenager! She should totally go for it if she wants to!
I told my husband how much you made, and that you never sold a book over $4, and he said you need to be my master and teach me. I said that is exactly why you make these videos.
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This channel is so underrated. I personally prefer you over a lot of the bigger Booktuber channels as you are just yourself and get straight to the matter without all the BS.
I really appreciate your videos. Keep up the good work in your career and congrats on your success thus far.
"The more my joy went down, the more mistakes I began to make" - Wow... truer words were never said! Thank you Sarra for sharing your honest and well earned experience with all of us. #2: Consistency. The key. You nailed it with these two vital puzzle pieces of success.
Wow! So great to see a self-published author succeeding. Hearing you talk about these things really makes me feel excited about what I'll accomplish in my own creative pursuits, both writing and non-writing ones!
I love how open and honest you are! I find all of your advice SO helpful & encouraging!!! Thank you for sharing!
Congratulations on your much-deserved success. I've been following your journey for quite a while now. You are a total inspiration! Thanks for putting yourself out there, being vulnerable and sharing. 💜 Happy belated birthday!
Honestly, your career has been one that I want to emulate long term. I’m working on writing my first series right now, and I’m still learning about the world that I’ve created. I kind of want it to be like the Cosmere that Brandon Sanderson created...where I write about different characters in different places and times, and telling the background of the world through different perspectives through several series.
Thank you for sharing. I am hoping to join your Publish and Thrive this year. I love how transparent you are and it gives others, like me, the motivation to live their writing dreams. Thank you for being so real!
THANK YOU!! You have no idea how motivating this is!
Thank you so much for sharing your story! It’s so inspirational, *especially* the fact that you feel like you’ve made mistakes along the way and still found so much happiness and success in the long term. ❤️
This is a great video for so many reasons. Thank you for being transparent and offering your personal information to all of us who have the same questions you once had! I will check out your courses!
This was soooo amazing! I have always been curious about the potential to make a great living. This brings so much hope! Thanks girl!
So inspiring! I’m not an author (well...yet? 😆) but it’s so awesome to see authors able to be successful independently! Congrats on your success! (Love seeing all the nitty gritty numbers too. Thanks for sharing so transparently.)
I really appreciate you being so candid and honest! Thank you!
I just subscribed! I appreciate your openness, about the ups and downs. I like it when people who are successful are real about the work involved to get there. I also like the advice about success and doing what you love.
So helpful, and so inspiring. I’m definitely taking this information into consideration with my next book release. Thank you again, and God bless!
You can be so proud of yourself! And thank you for this video, its very motivating to hear about your success
I love to see how enthusiastic you are, thanks for this short review. Good luck for the future.
You are saving me so much work with real inside honest information. You are an absolute treasure. Bless your heart.
Thank you so much for your open and honest video. I am writing a series and have two of the three books out there. Your advice has lit a fire under me to be more assertive in placing my novels in other market places along with Amazon. Very encouraging and valuable knowledge! Finding balance is very important too! Happy writing :)
Thank you Sarra. You are so encouraging.
Exceptional! Thank you for your honesty. I love your bravery.
Thanks for sharing this, Sarra, it’s really inspiring! ♥️
I’ve been an indie author for almost three years, and have published two standalone books in different genres (YA Romance and Middle Grade). I’m not gaining as much success as I’d like, and haven’t released a book since November 2018. I spent 2019 writing part of a YA romance series and just signed up for your Publish and Thrive course so I can learn better methods before releasing the series. I’m so excited to start the class and learn from you! 😊
You go girl !! You're so uplifting and inspiring 💜 I love watching your videos
Long time writer that hasn’t published. Just wanted you to know you’ve inspired me greatly across two or three videos.
I love this! Thank you so much for sharing, it definitely inspires me and I’m sure other aspiring self published authors. I appreciate your transparency and willingness to always share everything. You are the best! :)
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Your posts are SO helpful and encouraging. I have just finished my first novel and am working on bringing it to publication.
As always, great video. Thank you for your transparency and sharing your journey.
First off...Happy belated Birthday! Thank you for sharing so much about your personal life and the writer's life with us really appreciate it. Also you are such an amazing person doing this. Love from Detroit, Michigan ✌(Tamara)
Good for you! How generous of you to share and inspire us all.
I love this video: your detail orientation, your candor, your (lovely) personality, your knowledge, and your ability to break down your ideas in ways that a 5-year-old can follow. Kudos! I learned so much. I'm your newest fan.
You are so encouraging for me. I want to make a life where I can support myself and truly be free to be creative. Thank you so much!
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Ok I have been reading your book for years. Beautiful Demons was my first introduction to you. I happened upon this video and not know who you were was so exited to check out your books.. this is great!
I'm just starting out and I'm binge-watching your videos. I can't adequately express how much it means to have you share your experiences so transparently. I would love to know more about how to find/select an editor and artist for covers. Thanks Sarra!!
I'm registered for both your Publish and Thrive Course and your HB90 Boot camp. I've self published one book and it went nowhere so now I'm trying again. Thank you for all your wonderful advice and for putting yourself out there and being willing to share everything you've done to make your career a success.
So excited!!
You will never know how much I appreciate you!! I am so excited for classes to start. Hugs!!
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Congratulations! Your Fabulous! Wishing you 2020 is your highest earning year yet! Thanks for sharing.......it really helps. CHEERS
I love this video! I found this information really helpful and am looking forward to checking out your other videos. Thank you!
Congratulations 🎉👏😊💛. I am so proud of you and you are such an inspiration!
First of all, thank you so much for sharing, and congratulations on your success! You are such an inspiration to so many of us...so much so that I've almost finished writing my first book! It took some time because, I too, was following others advice to 'write to market'...and I just didn't love it. It's so true what you said about 'write what you love'. Since I've been doing that (adult urban fantasy), the writing process has been so much easier and I've been enjoying the ride 😊 I look forward to more videos from you! ❤️
So happy to hear this!
This is so inspiring to hear and such good information! I am writing my very first novel (45,000 so far!) and your channel has helped me glean a lot of information! Thank you for sharing your inspiring story! It gives my little newbie writer heart hope.
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I have self published four books now and while it has been a very enjoyable experience with many people enjoying the books, they have not generated the kind of exposure I want. I have learned a lot watching these videos and they are absolutely priceless. Thanks you for sharing your knowledge!
Thank you for being brave enough to share your numbers with us! It's inspiring and you reminded me of a lot of things I've forgotten about focus and what's really important. God bless! Can't wait to hear the dragonfly story!
Just wow! Wow, wow!🙌🏽 so inspiring and
Motivating!
Thank you for sharing. I like the way you explain things as well. Big thanks xxx
Thank you for this video, I really learnt so much! All the very best to you!
Thanks for the info! Congratulations to you and yours on your baby! :) xx
Yesss! Another fabulous, inspiring video for those of us trying our best to figure this indie author thing out! Thank you, Sarra. It's so helpful to break it all down as you have here, and see how successfully building this career is possible. I'll say again -- and I'll be saying forever -- your Publish & Thrive course is one of the BEST investments I've ever made! Mind. Blown. Here's to a great year of the indie writer life for us all!
Thank you Jennifer! You are so sweet!! I'm excited to see your first book out in the world!
Thank you for another wonderful and inspiring video. I started writing my first book 8 years ago, but I ended up flip-flopping to several other stories and never finished the first book. My goal this year is to go back to the first novel, clean it up and finally finish it. I want to have it published before the end of the year. I personally do not plan to use Kindle Unlimited because I have noticed a lot of the authors on Facebook commenting/complaining about how little income they make and how it fluctuates month-to-month.
Thank you! I've been going back and forth about self-publishing vs. traditional publishing and this is the first video that I've seen that is open and honest. This is the first one of your videos I've seen. I'm going to check out your channel. I hope you have some more info on self-publishing. I'm going to check out your books as well. Thank you for your time and effort. I've subbed.
Thank you for sharing your experience and congratulations on your success- so inspiring to see a self-published author follow her intuition and thrive! Fantastic!!
I loved the video. I just published my first book with kdp.I look forward to more of your videos.
You are an absolute inspiration! Thank you so much!
Congrats on your success, Sarra! So much hard work but what a payoff! Very happy for you💚💚💚 Erin
Wow. That is no kidding impressive. I never thought a self-published author could make as much. Great tips.
That is so awesome! You deserve all of the success you have for your amazing work! I am one of your Barnes and Noble buyers and it makes me so sad that BN is so far behind right now :( hopefully they begin to bounce back
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I love how open you are with everything. I would like to see a video on kindle unlimited at some stage.
This was so informative, inspiring and overall a joy to see.
Thank you so much for sharing this!! I love your story and the education you provided.
What an amazing and inspiring journey! I'm so happy for you - I can see the joy in your face every time you talk about your writing. I want that feeling :-) I'm hoping to publish my first book this spring. It's a standalone romance, but my next book will be part of a series. Self-publishing sounds so interesting, but I don't have a full grasp of what I'm signing up for. I'm really excited to take your Publish and Thrive course so I can learn the ropes of self-publishing 😃
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This is why you’re my shero 😊. Thank you SO much for keeping it real, keeping it accessible and for your endless enthusiasm and encouragement. I found myself getting a bit down on myself and my decisions this past while and I realized that I had been listening to all of the wrong-for-me advice. A dose of Sarra has remedied that and I feel my confidence returning. So thank you, so very much 💕
@Melanie Leavey No need to use the word shero for a female hero. The first Hero was a woman. She was a priestess of Aphrodite and she swam out to save Leander but they both drowned. Her name was Hero. Culture took it away from women. We need to take it back. Just like in the Bee Movie the worker bees were characterized as leather jacket wearing motor cycle dudes. But the truth is the worker bees are females. The drones are male and they do not leave the hive. I'm not much of a feminist but I do like the truth.
Inkdraft thank you for this!! I had no idea - nor do most people I imagine. Wow. Why am I not surprised? Ugh. Again, thank you for this...I plan to share 😊
Extremely informative. Thank you for sharing!
I definitely want to see how your income compared to the expenses for each individual book! 😃 Thank you for being so open like this... it gives me hope for greater success!
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You always give me something beautiful and inspiring in your videos !thank you!💖
It's so great to hear that you're doing well wide. Most people who talk about making a lot of money are in KDP. I've been wide since the beginning, but I've been thinking about KDP for this next series. Maybe not now! :) Thanks for sharing.
Awesome! Congratulations! Great for aspiring indies to see.
This is such helpful information, and it is so true - you have to do what you love doing-everything will eventually just flow from there.
Thank you so much for sharing this. I know it had to be hard to do it, but it's so inspiring!!!
Cool. It's always nice to see other writers talk about their writing success :)
Thank you for watching!
Love your videos.
I'm also a self published author!
In the process of starting my own channel and I'm so nervous!
New sub! This is such helpful information! Thanks for being SO real!
Thank you so much! This video is so inspiring. I've been bogged down by the whole "write to trend" speeches lately, it has had me questioning whether I wanted to keep on writing in YA. I am starting on Amazon Ads though, and it is a learning curve so it's nice to hear from someone who doesn't use AMS and is still successful (I do have two videos on my journey with AMS ads for those who are interested in that process). I'm still figuring out my social media marketing methods as I'm not making a big impact there yet.
Happy New Year! Happy belated birthday. Thanks for sharing. God bless.
Thank you for the inspiration and for sharing the numbers. Once I'm in the position to self-publish, I will sign up for the Publish and Thrive course. I am nowhere near done with the story idea in my head, but I have to push myself to have my first draft done before my birthday in October. I've told my husband about you and how it's possible to make money writing so I can help support us and ... well, just thank you for this video. Now I am off to write a little! :)
Fabulous advice! Thank you!
Thank you so much for sharing!
Very inspiring. Thank you for your transparency.
Oh Sarra! Now I'm crying.
It meant so much to me!!
You were giving me flashbacks to 2010 lol! Pubbit hahaha! But one million?!! Gah!! That’s AMAZING!!! I’ve been publishing as long as you, but never came near that number! So AWESOME!!! I LOVE THIS!!! So inspiring!!!! I love that dragonfly mug!!! And yesss!!! I hate it when people tell writers to write-to-trend!! Write what you love! Readers can tell when a novel is ‘empty.’ It comes off the page. Thank you so much for posting this!! A dose of reality for people who say Indie authors don’t make money!
Thank you Becca!
So glad you checked this channel out Becca! I ❤ Sarra :-)
Thanks for sharing all that knowledge, including the transparent sharing of financial information. I suspect a lot of us wonder about that stuff. Your info is very helpful.l
Thank you so much for this video!💖
Thank you for sharing!! This video was so informative
Filled with great & helpful information. Thank you so much!
This is great! Also, read a few chapters of your book. And what I read was really engaging.
Congratulations! Making a living doing what you love is success to me.
I was one who fell into the trap of not focussing on one series. I spread myself too thin and burnt out. I'm regrouping and giving it another shot. Thanks for the inspiration.
Thanks for this video. I’m currently working on writing my first book.
I appreciate this info. Working on my first fantasy novel :). About to start the editing process.
Wow. You are incredible. Thank you so much for this video, I needed it.
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Congratulations! That's exciting and great. I wish I could make a living. (I wish my books sold well). I need it desperately.
Awesome ... Thank you so much for sharing your experience 💖
So happy for you and thank you for sharing
I really want to be an author but I wasnt sure how to get started. This has inspired me that it's not impossible.
Three years later and this is still a powerful video! Thank you! 💜
Wow, you are so inspiring! That you for sharing this information, it’s so helpful 💕
Thank you for your honesty and inspiration.
Yay a new video ⚘
Thank you so much for sharing, love your personality! Super proud of you, new subscriber! :)
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