• The story behing 100 Go Mistakes and how to avoid them

    In terms of royalties, I got paid 10% on all sales. On one hand, yes, that’s not a lot. Yet, you really have to understand how helpful a publisher can be for a first-time “author” with zero experience like I was back then, for two main reasons:

    First, and we will go over the process later, but the number of reviews from different people is insane. If I had written the book completely on my own, I can guarantee the quality would have been way lower.

    Second, in terms of visibility, going with a publisher helps a lot, especially if, like me back then, you had around 400 followers on Twitter. Sure, content can still go viral without a big audience, but it’s a lot less likely.

    When I signed the contract, I also received an advance: $2,000 upfront, and $2,000 after delivering one-third of the book.

    To this day, I’ve earned around $47,000 from the book (before taxes). If I consider the time spent, using a conservative lower bound of 2,000 hours, that comes out to about $23 per hour.

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