If I write a book and it was published and was succesfull. How much money could I earn? -

I wish that my book was success full. I just wanted to know whether I would earn enough to do this full time.|::::|Define successful. Now define it within what is realistically possible. If 10,000 new books are published this year, only one or two might generate enough income for the writer to live off the income until he dies of old age. A best seller is no gaurantee of long term success, wealth, or that a writer will be able to produce any future work worth being published. Best sellers are not about actual sales, but the rate of sale within a given week at selected stores. Best sellers can, in fact, sell fewer copies in a given year than many other books that never made the list. Most of the authors who are able to write full time without a job of their own (or a spouse with a job) do so by writing many books, each of which has enough readers to stay in print and which generate income through royalties and subsidiary rights. This process takes years, often decades. If you browse enough author webpages where there is writing advise, you will find that most of them advise the new author not to quit their job after that first sale, and not until after they have no major bills to pay (like a mortgage). It is better to save what you do make from writing until you can live a full year off each book s royalties.|::::|Every writer dreams of success. Every writer wants to earn enough to do it full time. Unfortunately, for this to be reality, you ll need to have published several best sellers. Writers earn royalties of approximately 10% of the cover price of the book. If the cover price is $20, then you ll earn $2 in royalties. This means that to make a thousand dollars, you ll have to sell at least 500 books. A standard print run of a first novel is about 3000 copies. Expect to make about $6000, assuming that every book in your first print run sells. Any left over books will be remaindered. You will not earn royalties on these. Publishers will only do second and occasionally third print runs if the first print run is a huge success. You will continue to make royalties on every print run, for as long as the book continues to be printed.|::::|The first book will generate most of it s income after it goes on sale, over a period of time, assuming it is popular. If it makes a best seller list, your second book will attract more offers up front, and they could be in the hundreds of thousands of dollars or more, depending on how many copies book #1 sells and what the publishers think your potential is. After that, it just depends on what the public and the critics think of your work. What happens to most authors is they write a book, send it around to a bunch of publishers and get rejected over and over. A lot of excellent books never get published. But you will never know unless you try, and writing a book is a worthwhile effort, even if nobody publishes it. Good luck!|::::|how long is a bit of string? i write and i still have to work. i know alot fo writers who are in the same boat. i know one writer who writes full time and has to publish 7 or 8 books a year just to pay the bills. for most writers the money isn t great. you get a modest adance, usually between 1000 and 5000 bucks for a first novel. then you ll get anywhere between 8 and 12% of sales as royalites. however, you will only start getting royaloties AFTER you have earned the equivenalt of your advance. so, assume 10% of cover sales of ￡7, that s 70p for every book. few books sell over 20,000 copies, the average number is just 6000 copies. so 70p x 6000 is ￡4,200 i would love to be able to give up my day job and just write. but i like to eat and sleep indoors.|::::|I saw an interview last week with a quite well known writer who has had fourteen novels published by major publishers and he said he rarely made more than seven thousand pounds a year. I reckon it would be a lot more than that if he d sold film, TV or foreign rights, but that s a matter of luck I suppose.|::::|Harper Lee is still living on the proceeds from quot;To Kill a Mockingbirdquot; which was published (and won the Pulitzer Prize) in 1960. S.E. Hinton wrote other books, too, like quot;Texquot; and quot;Rumblefish,quot; but her fortune rests on quot;The Outsidersquot; which she wrote when she was 15!|::::|I have wrote a few books, one a true life story and one a children s story. It is very hard, especially for first time writers like myself, and getting into the children s market. You will get turned down more times than having one accepted.|::::|There are about 1000 BOOKS written every day and sent to publishers.. and ALL UNSOLICITED MANUSCRIPTS are either returned unopened or TOSSED IN THE TRASH If you hope to have a book published you need to get a LITERARY AGENT because publishers no longer deal directly with writers.|::::|Well Anthea Turner sold 450 copies of her autobiography books. I think she still kept her day job, what ever that is now. If you go in it for the money the chances are you will fail unless you are already successful.|::::|According to email publisher, your income will depend on how you are going to promote your book to different book store or to your friends, aside from their effort to publish and sell it to store book shelves.|::::|It s not easy to earn money by writing books, very few can live off of that income (or lack of income), but who knows, you might be the exception to the rule.|::::|millions! its pretty obvious isnt it..J K rowling?|::::|All of the above. Good Luck.|::::|you should write the name of the book so i can go buy it|::::|It depends on how popular the book is u cud get thousands I d if ur lucky millions......