The Economics of Writing Books (with practical numbers)

Hey, folks!

So, I am preparing to schedule my writing activities for the rest of the year and figure out what I will be publishing in 2026. As such, I needed to figure out what my profitable series/books are.

So, I made a spreadsheet. And I was pretty cruel about it, I’m not going to lie. I calculated how long it takes me to write a 100,000 word book, and then I did some fancy math so I knew exactly how much, per word, I needed to be paid from that book to cover my living expenses from the...