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Post by K'Sennia Visitor on Jul 5, 2018 8:40:48 GMT
Nonfiction is popular with scammers and non-author publishers because it's believed to be easier than fiction, but truly worthwhile nonfiction takes just as much time and dedication as good fiction, so don't let anyone fool you into thinking you can become a millionaire by writing short, fluffy, books scraped from wikipedia. My very first book was actually rewritten Wikipedia pages because I believed a WSO. It actually did sell a few copies, but not much. Now maybe if I had done hundreds or thousands of those I'd be rich right now. But I am way too lazy and if you think I have motivation issues when I care about something, try motivating me when it's something I don't give a fuck about! Spoilers - you can't! So my advice to you is only write nonfiction if you genuinely have information you need to share with the world. Info they can't easily get elsewhere. Make your info unique and if it doesn't come from direct experience, test it to see what you are selling is real and not lies packaged as truth.
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Post by possiblyderanged on Jul 8, 2018 13:59:27 GMT
Yeah, the old "nonfiction is a goldmine anybody can make a million with" scam. I've seen so many people (the old KDP forums were full of them), who wrote their short little books, mostly scraped info (they didn't even bother to rewrite it), or their personal opinions about religion, politics, or science, wonder why they can't sell them. It was worse when the PLR stuff was allowed. Hundreds of exactly the same books on the same topics. Urgh.
Anyway, I have some NF projects in the works, but they're doll related topics. How to repair and dress vintage dolls. I have about four I want to get to this year, and maybe some others down the road. I'm not an expert, per se, but someone who's done this stuff for my own collection, so I know what worked for me.
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Post by K'Sennia Visitor on Jul 8, 2018 16:45:12 GMT
Yeah, the old "nonfiction is a goldmine anybody can make a million with" scam. I've seen so many people (the old KDP forums were full of them), who wrote their short little books, mostly scraped info (they didn't even bother to rewrite it), or their personal opinions about religion, politics, or science, wonder why they can't sell them. It was worse when the PLR stuff was allowed. Hundreds of exactly the same books on the same topics. Urgh. Anyway, I have some NF projects in the works, but they're doll related topics. How to repair and dress vintage dolls. I have about four I want to get to this year, and maybe some others down the road. I'm not an expert, per se, but someone who's done this stuff for my own collection, so I know what worked for me. Yep, I remember the PLR and the public domain days when there were hundreds of copies of the exact same books. That's neat you have a specific niche/skill that you can write about. Do you make teddy bears, too? |
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