With no other avenues available, Sanghi like those before him turned to self-publishing. She was living most author’s dreams — getting advances, reading at bookstores, selling her books. I self-publish children’s books and it seems like they are a really hard sell. That’s why we love this piece from Forbes on how one author earns $450,000 a year self-publishing on Amazon. Don’t leave things blank. The #1 most competitive nonfiction list is Biographies & Memoirs -> Memoirs, which is dominated by celebrity memoirs like Sheryl Sandberg’s Lean In. Honorée Corder started her writing career as a single mom over a decade ago. The non-fiction ones do MUCH better than the fiction ones. How To Self-Publish A Children's Book: Everything You Need To Know To Write, Illustrate, Publish, And Market Your Paperback And Ebook (How To Write For Children Series) (Volume 1) Many of my initial fans read the books strictly based on the cover design, remember that first impression is SO important.” There are several more examples, these are just the most widely-known. • Amazon author and book pages: I could get very detailed, but here’s the quick rundown: If you self-publish on Amazon, use every space they give you. Self-publishing success stories are all around us… but it’s not often we get a glimpse into how, exactly, these authors manage to sell so many books on Amazon. By 2008, Tata-Westland and Indian publisher saw the indie book for what … In 2007 he sent the book out under the pseudonym Shawn Haigins where it built a reputation for itself. If this list should tell you anything, it’s this: just because your book is self-published, doesn’t mean it can’t be successful. Yet she was dissatisfied with how much money she got. I think it helps that I have added a company name, which makes it look like it isn’t self-published. Today, she is the author of dozens of self-published books, which have collectively sold more than 800,000 copies. Online shopping from a great selection at Books Store. She had previously published books with Attic and Penguin and one indie publisher. With about 10% in royalties, she thought that she could do …