For Love or Money

by Susan Kaye Quinn

Do you write for love or money? With the advent of indie publishing, this question vexes writers like it never has before—for the first time, you can literally chase trends, feeding the fans of that lucrative genre that’s flying off the shelves. But what if the stories you love to write aren’t the kind that are selling like ice water in July? How do you create a career in writing that you both love and hits the financial success you need to justify the hours spent at the keyboard?

For Love or Money talks about writing for love (and how to sell that) as well as writing for money (and how to love it). It contains serious strategies about making money with your books, living the freedom of indie publishing, and stretching yourself creatively in your career. For authors willing to take a hard look at themselves and the market, this book will lay out the necessary steps to create your dream writing career.

For Love or Money is meant to be used in tandem with The Indie Author Survival Guide (Second Edition), the first book in the Crafting a Self-Publishing Career series. Together, these two books will set you on a path of turning your love for storytelling into a career.

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**Table of Contents**
Author's Note
Crafting Your Dream Writer Life
1.1 Choosing Your Mountain
1.2 Park Your Biases At The Curb
1.3 Embrace Your Freedom
1.4 My Journey
1.5 Decide For Yourself
1.6 Bite-Sized Summary
Writing For Love
2.1 Writing Challenges Me
2.2 Forget About Readers
2.3 Joyful Writing
2.4 Take Your Craft Up A Level
2.5 It Will Always Be Hard
2.6 Bite-Sized Summary
Turning Love Into Money
3.1 Don't Give Up Too Soon
3.2 All The Marketing Tricks
3.3 Making What You Love More Commercial
3.4 My Biggest Failure/Learning Experience
3.5 Why Isn't My Book Selling
3.6 Build Your Backlist
3.7 Bite-Sized Summary
Writing For Money
4.1 Writing What Sells
4.2 What's In Your Wheelhouse
4.3 Don't Try This At Home
4.4 Bite-Sized Summary
Balancing Writing And Life
5.1 Staying Sane in a Crazy (Indie Publishing) World
Managing Your Career
Appendix: Your Self-Publishing Toolkit

Genres: Writing, Nonfiction, Crafts, Self Help

201 pages, Kindle Edition

First published July 2, 2015

About the author

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Susan Kaye Quinn is a rocket scientist turned speculative fiction author who now uses her PhD to invent cool stuff in books. Her works range from young adult science fiction to adult future-noir, with side trips into royal fantasy romance and middle grade. Her bestselling novels and short stories have been optioned for Virtual Reality, translated into German and French, and featured in several anthologies.

She writes full-time from Chicago, inventing mind powers and dreaming of the Singularity.

All of Sue's books:

YOUNG ADULT SCIENCE FICTION
Singularity Novel Series
The Legacy Human (Singularity #1)
The Duality Bridge (Singularity #2)
The Illusory Prophet (Singularity 3)

Stories of Singularity
Restore (Stories of Singularity #1)
Containment (Stories of Singularity #2)
Augment (Stories of Singularity #3)
Awakening (Stories of Singularity #4)
Harvest (Stories of Singularity #5)
Defiance (Stories of Singularity #6)
Resistance (Stories of Singularity #7)

Mindjack Series
Open Minds Book #1)
Closed Hearts (Book #2)
Free Souls (Book #3)
Locked Tight (Book #4)
Cracked Open (Book #5)
Broken Wide (Book #6)
Mindjack Short Story Collection (Book #7)

WATCH the award-winning live-action Mindjack Book Trailer!

SWEET, ROYAL ROMANCE
Third Daughter (The Royals of Dharia #1)
Second Daughter (The Royals of Dharia #2)
First Daughter (The Royals of Dharia #3)

ADULT FUTURE NOIR
The Debt Collector: LIRIUM (Season One)
The Debt Collector: WRAITH (Season Two)
WATCH the Debt Collector Book Trailer

ANTHOLOGIES
Synchronic
Telepath Chronicles
AI Chronicles
Dark Beyond The Stars
Future Chronicles
Cyborg Chronicles
CLONES: The Anthology

MIDDLE GRADE
Faery Swap
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CONTACT SUSAN
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Susan's Email: susankayequinn@comcast.net