How, Exactly, Do You THINK Authors Make Money?

There is a strange event that keeps recurring like I'm stuck in some digital version of Groundhog Day. In short, I'll be online giving an update on my current releases, or sharing around something I've made, and there will without fail be someone leaping into the comments who will say something along the lines of, "I'm not here to support your lifestyle! If you aren't making enough money, then go get a real job!"

And I'm not even mad... I'm just honestly confused. So while the title is a bit of a rhetorical question, I do genuinely find myself wondering how it is the general public thinks creators make money if this is the way they act toward us?

Seriously... I am befuddled by this behavior.

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All Right, Let Me Break It Down One More Time

I cannot stress this enough, and even though I feel like I've gotten up on this stump before, apparently the people who need to hear this message haven't come across it yet. But the public, the audience, are what make creators money! You can write 100 novels, or make 1,000 YouTube videos, or put together 10 whole seasons of a podcast, but if you don't have an audience propping you up and helping you actually get consumed, seen, listened to, or read, then you may as well have been blowing raspberries and picking your nose for all that's going to actually get you paid.

I made a whole video about this a while back, in fact, over on the Azukail Games YouTube channel.

All right, let me back up a second to explain something that a lot of folks don't seem to understand. People who write books or blogs? People who create roleplaying games? People who make YouTube videos, or any other kind of art? We don't get paid for that! Unless the artist in-question is a staff member for a company who is paying them to create things (a rather rare position overall), or the person is working on a commission or as a ghostwriter, we do not get paid for making the things we make. We are making things, and then trying to sell them so we can turn a profit off the finished story, game, video, etc. we have made for people to enjoy.

When I wrote my novel Marked Territory about my hardboiled Maine Coon solving mysteries in New York City, I didn't get paid for writing that book. I did not receive an advance from my publisher (that's not really a thing anyone does except at the highest levels). If I expect that book to make me money, I need people to buy copies of it. When I wrote the 13 supplements in my 100 Kinfolk Bundle for Werewolf: The Apocalypse, I wasn't paid for that. I do, however, get 30% of the earnings on every sale those supplements make. I don't get paid for writing articles on Vocal, like my RPG character concept The Cult Born. I do, however, earn a certain amount of money based on how many reads all of those articles get from the audience.

And I feel like a lot of people out there just don't get this on a fundamental level.

When you see an author, or an illustrator, or a YouTuber talking about the stuff they've done, or asking folks who like their work to buy copies, or support them on a crowdfunding site, it's not that we aren't making enough money from our publishers and we need the audience to supplement our incomes. It's that our audience IS the source of our incomes! Whether you're buying copies of our books, or watching videos that have ads on them, or pledging to give us $5 a month so we can keep our bills paid, you out there, the people consuming our content, are where the money comes from.

You Aren't Supplementing Creators... You Are The Main Source

This is a point I feel people really need to internalize, because it's important for this to be understood. Creators can't just go to companies and apply for jobs, because we don't get hired to work for direct pay like that. And the few positions like that which do exist are highly competitive. A lot of us may pick up some freelance work, or we may get signed to short-term projects, but at the end of the day our success is directly laid at your feet... the audience.

You decide if we live or die in a very literal sense.

Which is why your cheers matter so damn much.

Again, you are not required to spend your time or money supporting creators whose work you aren't interested in, or which you don't like. But if you see creators out there posting links to their work, telling people about their Patreon, asking for folks to like, follow, subscribe, etc., understand that this is the way creators get paid. We don't get paid when we finish a piece unless we've got a contract with someone for it, and for a lot of us we depend on our crowdfunding audience, and our royalties (whether that's from book sales, merch sales, or from people's eyes on our articles and videos).

If you don't want to support, you don't have to. The ball is in your court. But if you do like that artist, and you want to see more of their work, and you want them to succeed, then you need to understand there isn't some phantom boss our there signing our paychecks. There's just you, and what you choose to do to help support the creators you care about.

And if you want to know exactly how you can make everyone's lives easier, I have the full breakdown for you in Care And Feeding Of Your Creators (5 Steps All Fans Should Take) that provides a bulleted list for you!

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That's all for this week's Business of Writing! For more of my work, check out my Vocal archive, or at My Amazon Author Page where you can find books like my sci-fi dystopian thriller Old Soldiers, the Hardboiled Cat series about a mystery solving Maine Coon in Marked Territory and Painted Cats, my sword and sorcery novel Crier's Knife, or my most recent short story collection The Rejects!

 

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Care and Feeding of Your Creators (5 Steps All Fans Should Take)

So, you've been out wilding on the Internet, or maybe you were in real space at a convention, and you found someone who makes things you like. You want this person to be able to keep doing what they're doing, but you've never had a pet creator before. How do you take care of them? How do you ensure they've got enough enrichment in their enclosures to keep their creative juices flowing properly? What do creators even eat?

Don't worry. Just take a deep breath. I'm going to give you the inside scoop on just what your creator needs, and how you can make sure that they continue to do that thing you love for years to come!

Stimulants may be necessary, but we'll get there when we get there...

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The 5 Steps To Taking Care Of Your Creators

In the old days, artists had patrons who would give them money, food, a place to live, and so one. Whether it was rich nobles who wanted to show off by having a pet artist, or the church who needed their skills to create works of art to ensure the proper feeling of reverence in the populace, these old style patrons handled the day-to-day expenses of the creators so they could focus on using their skills to make art.

The world has changed since then. These days it's possible for anyone to support the work of an artist they like, though, and we definitely need all the help we can get.

Just follow these 5 Steps, and your artist will be perking up in no time!

Method #1: Direct Patronage

Seriously, every little bit helps.

You may not be a member of the Medicis, but you can still help creators directly. Whether you want to become a Patreon patron and give them a specific amount every month, or just toss them a tip using a platform like Ko-Fi when you have a little bit to spare, these tips can add up when there's a lot of people participating. Never underestimate the power of a lot of people doing something small in large numbers... that is going to become a running theme throughout this post, for folks who are wondering.

And if you want to give me a hand up, consider become one of my Patreon patrons, or giving me a tip on my Ko-Fi.

#2: Buy Their Merch

Since a lot of folks haven't checked out this novel yet...

Did you know that a band makes way more money from the purchase of a tee shirt or a CD than buying a ticket to their concert does, more often than not? In fact, most of the money made from concerts (even those that sell out) often go to pay for the expenses of the show. Even some tours that seem really successful from the outside can barely break even... or in some case leave the performers in debt if they don't sell enough merch to actually make a profit.

So if you have a creator you like, take a look at their merch. Authors have novels, RPG rule books, and so on, which makes them easy to support in this regard. But even if you have a YouTuber, a painter, or any other kind of creator, ask what kind of merch they put out. Do they have stickers? Tee shirts? Shaker cups? Prints of their artwork? Or do they have a sponsorship deal with a product or service that you would actually use (since every purchase through the creator's link puts money in their pockets)?

For those interested in novels and short stories, check out my Amazon author page. If you're more of an RPG players, I've got nearly 200 titles on Drive Thru RPG. And if you're a fan of energy drinks that I can attest absolutely get the job done, consider clicking right here to check out Dubby!

Method #3: Consume Their Content

If a creator you follow makes content that is free for you to consume (they have a YouTube channel, a podcast, or they publish articles on a website or a blog), then make sure you're actually watching, reading, and listening to the things they make! In some cases that free content does have a method of getting the creator paid, such as how YouTube gives a portion of ad revenue to the person who runs a channel once they've met the website's qualifications. Your reads, views, etc. will only be a tiny fraction of what they'd need to make a living, but it costs you nothing, and increases the creator's numbers, which matters a lot.

Why does it matter? Because the algorithm, which can decide our success or failure, pays attention to numbers. Videos, articles, podcast episodes, etc., that get a lot of interaction (which is both watches/views/listens, but also shares, upvotes, reviews, etc.) are the things the algorithm chooses to signal boost because it believes they're more popular. So the more you can add to a creator's numbers, the better they look overall. As such you should listen, but also like, comment, subscribe, and all those other things that can help them push the rock up the hill a little further.

For those who'd like to help me in this regard, I help out with the Azukail Games YouTube channel, but I also have an archive of 329 articles and growing on Vocal.media (and every 3 articles read basically puts a penny in my earnings cup... so reading even 1 article a day would make a big difference if enough people did it).

Method #4: Actively Follow Them on Social Media

On it, chief!

Social media is the lifeblood of how a lot of us stay in touch, as well as how we find new things. The problem is that thanks to platform decay, only those with the loudest followings and the largest numbers actually seem to get anywhere... everyone else is just drowned out by the sea of noise, ads, and bots that exists on these platforms.

Again, if you want the algorithm to notice the creators you like (and possibly pay them, as apparently that's a thing that can happen if your following is big enough), do your part to increase their numbers!

That means you should absolutely follow/subscribe to the creators you like on all the platforms they're active on, but that's just the start. Interact with their posts by liking, commenting, and sharing them. Turn on notifications if that's an option so you don't miss posts. Make sure you're plugged-in so that you see the things they put up, and if possible try to persuade your friends to do the same! Pushing someone's signal up takes literally tens of thousands of people, but it can be done if folks show up and keep the energy going. Like the other stuff above, this isn't a one-and-done... make this a part of your regular routine. It will only take a few minutes a day, if that, and it does make an impact.

All of my social media links are at the end of this blog for folks who are interested... Hope to see you there!

Method #5: Make Sure You Tell Them How Much You Like Their Work

Being told that people like your work, that people are excited for a thing you made, is like a straight shot in the arm for a lot of creators out there. We put hours of time, energy, editing, an often collaborating to make our creations into things that can be experienced... and when we do all that, and no one ever reads, watches, listens, etc., it can feel like it was for nothing.

I wrote Waking Dogs Part 3: Warhounds a few months ago, and the audio drama above by the YouTube channel A Vox in The Void gave me chills to listen to. Even more than hearing someone else's interpretation of my work, though, were the comments folks left behind!

I'll be honest, I wrote the first story abotu Crixus and his bloody adventures in the grimdark galaxy because I was hoping folks would then turn around and check out my novel Old Soldiers... but this little fanfiction series has taken on a life of its own. And seeing just how excited folks were not just to have a new installment of the series, but how stoked they were to know I had plans to keep it going... that's a great feeling to have, and it's one that we don't get as often as you might think.

So if you love a creator's work, tell them. Because a lot of the time we might be wondering if anyone actually cares, and if there's anyone actually rooting for us to keep going. Sometimes a little cheering from the sidelines really does help us keep putting one foot in front of the other just a little bit longer.

Final Thoughts

I want to make it clear to folks that this advice is universal. Any creator you're following, whether they're an author or a graphic artists, a YouTuber, a podcaster, a voice actor, or an essayist, they need you to help them keep their career alive. You are literally the life blood of art. PBS wasn't screwing around when they said we can only do what we do because of viewers like you... without your support, a lot of us will have to stop making art... so support the people whose work you want to see flourish!

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Like, Follow, and Come Back Again!

That's all for this week's Business of Writing! For more of my work, check out my Vocal archive, or at My Amazon Author Page where you can find books like my sci-fi dystopian thriller Old Soldiers, the Hardboiled Cat series about a mystery solving Maine Coon in Marked Territory and Painted Cats, my sword and sorcery novel Crier's Knife, or my most recent short story collection The Rejects!

 

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It Is Exhausting To Always Be Hustling

"I respect the hustle, but why are you posting in so many places? I swear all I can see in my timeline is the stuff you're sharing."

This is a question I have been asked dozens of times over the years on nearly every social media platform I utilize. I've been messaged it on Facebook, Reddit, and once or twice I've even had people call me out on MeWe, and every time they start it with the same sentiment. They respect the amount of work I'm putting in, but why am I promoting my work in so many places?

I should think the answer is obvious, but just in case folks don't know, it's because I want people to see it, read/watch it, buy copies, and perhaps follow me to get more updates.

That's it. That's the whole reason. And let me tell you right now that it... is... exhausting that not only do creators have to be constantly on the grind like this, but that people will look at what we're doing and then deadass ask us why we're grinding so hard.

Because we have bills to pay, and not enough fans. We are poor. It's not that deep.

I don't know why this is so confusing to so many people.

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If I Didn't Have To Do This, I Wouldn't Be!

Again, to answer the obvious, the only reason creators post so much about their work is because we need to. No one, and I mean no one, is making self-promotion posts for the fun of it. For a majority of us, if we could just hole up in our studios and work on our projects, collect a check, and never have to engage with the public except for occasional interviews and cryptic forum posts once a year, that's what we would do.

While I can't give details for other creators, I can tell folks that I spend hours every day making promotional posts. Every day I go through Reddit, Facebook, MeWe, Bluesky, and I try to go through the comment section on YouTube, attempting to share, boost engagement, and get opinions from my audience. I make probably between 50 and 100+ posts a day, and that's just enough to get noticed by a handful of people. And while that eats up a lot of time, it also devours a lot of my energy for the day, because even a relatively mindless activity still takes time and effort to get through.

But "the hustle" as so many folks refer to trying to blast my signal across social media loudly enough to overcome the algorithm, is the backbone of my earnings. I could write dozens of books and hundreds of TTRPG guides, but if I don't tell anyone, no one is going to find them and buy them.

For example, did you see this one drop last weekend?

On those days where either a particular social media site is down, or when my Internet connection isn't working, I get so much more work done because it gives me back 3-4 hours a day I can use to write short stories, expand adventure modules, work on scripts for my podcast, record and edit videos and audio dramas, or any of the dozen other things I have deadlines for.

This is where the reality of being a professional creative, and the perception people have of the profession, deviate. Because it does not matter at the end of the day how much stuff I (or anyone else) creates. It matters what we sell. So if no one is watching, reading, or buying, we don't get paid, and that can very quickly turn into a death spiral for our careers.

I talked about this very thing a while back on Tabletop Mercenary over on the Azukail Games YouTube channel, and it was a truth that a lot of people didn't want to hear.

Active Audience Members Reduce The Need For The Hustle

As I said back in You Can't Make A Living Doing That? Says Who!?, an active audience makes a world of difference to any creator. Because even a relatively small number of active supports can be what makes or breaks a creator's career. And just so we're all on the same page, an active supporter is someone who interacts with a creator's content, and who does their best to deliberately support said creator. That might mean they leave them a tip every now and again, it might mean they support them on Patreon, or it could mean they buy that creator's merch whether it be tee shirts and hoodies, or books and TTRPG supplements. Alternatively, it could be people who read free articles which still pay the creator, who watch YouTube videos, and who follow on social media, share posts around, and leave comments of at least 7 words (since the algorithm has decided that's the big number).

Just to throw some numbers at you, let's say I had 500 people who wanted to actively support me. What kind of benefit would that be?

- $500 a month in Patreon/Ko-Fi earnings ($1 per supporter) would mean I could easily and reliably pay my portion of the rent with no sweating (and it would be an increase of nearly $300 in what I pull in every month). And if those supporters wanted to do $2 a month? Holy damn would I have a massive weight off my shoulders!

- 500 novel sales per month would be roughly $1,000 in royalties. And given that I have 4 novels and 2 short story collections on the market, those 500 supporters could easily earn me $6,000 or more over the course of half a year just buying 1 book a month... something that, for a lot of folks, isn't that big of a cost.

- 500 people reading 1 article per day on my Vocal.media archive would net me 15,000 additional reads... and at $6 per 1K reads, would net me a bonus $90 a month. Not as life-changing, but it would be a nice little bonus, and it would take most of a year for those supporters to read my entire archive only going through 1 article a day!

- 500 people watching 1 YouTube video a day over at the Azukail Games YouTube channel would be a bonus 15,000 additional views at the end of the month. While numbers vary for ad revenue, that would earn somewhere between $30 and $50 on average. Not a huge impact, but sharing those videos, and leaving comments on them, would massively help, and it would likely give the channel the huge visibility boost it would need to grow large enough to become semi-self sustaining. And if we just grew 500 additional subscribers, that would both put us over 2,000 subs, while also sending a message to the algorithm to pay more attention to us.

Now, 500 people sounds like a lot of folks... but there are FB groups and subreddits with tens of thousands of members. Getting 500 people is a fraction of the people who populate those places. The problem is that most people take a very passive role when it comes to how they consume art. They look casually, and then they move on, rather than interacting and supporting, which is what creators need in order to survive. It is, after all, the reason we spend so much damn time making posts and promoting our work.

So if you want to see the creators you love make fewer social media posts about their books, videos, supplements, etc.? Become an active supporter, and try to recruit some of your circle into doing the same. Because every, single one of you is making a real difference in the lives of an artist... whether you feel like it, or not!

Also, if you think an artist has so much support that they don't need you to help, I'd like to remind you that audience size is a reverse iceberg... however big it looks, it's likely not even 10% the size of what you're seeing.

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And if you happen to have some spare dosh lying around, and you want to be sure my supply doesn't run low, consider become a Patreon patron, or leaving a tip by Buying Me a Ko-Fi!

Also, if you're curious about how to write for tabletop RPGs, don't forget to check out my show Tabletop Mercenary, which you can find on both the Azukail Games channel, as well as my Rumble channel listed above!

Like, Follow, and Come Back Again!

That's all for this week's Business of Writing! For more of my work, check out my Vocal archive, or at My Amazon Author Page where you can find books like my sci-fi dystopian thriller Old Soldiers, the Hardboiled Cat series about a mystery solving Maine Coon in Marked Territory and Painted Cats, my sword and sorcery novel Crier's Knife, or my most recent short story collection The Rejects!

 

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The Insincerity of Crowds (Trying To Separate Genuine Demand From Hot Air)

Most authors pay at least a modicum of attention to the audience when they decide what projects they're going to work on next. Whether it's figuring out what kinds of blog entries are popular, what sort of novels people want to read, what kinds of YouTube videos get the most views, etc. we are all (whether we like it or not) paying attention to what kinds of projects succeed, and what kinds of projects fail.

Because unless you are extremely wealthy, most authors don't want to spend 1-3 years on a passion project just to have it met by thunderous indifference.

To help hedge our bets, most of us will reach out to members of our audience, as well as potential members of our audience, and ask what it is they'd like to see. It sounds like a good practice, since it should take the guesswork out of figuring out what people want, allowing you to make sure that at least part of your audience is going to be ready and eager for your project when it drops.

The problem is that a lot of people will say one thing, and then do another. And I mean a lot of them!

Which makes giving the stamp of approval to one thing over another a difficult choice.

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Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is

I cannot count the number of times I've spoken with fellow creators who've had fans stridently demand something, given them what they asked for, and then found that no one was willing to actually support that project once it was completed. For example, I've had people say that they don't read short stories, but they'd love to hear an audio drama version of my book The Rejects... despite that, though, those folks didn't check out the audio versions of either the Weird Western Dead Man's Bluff or the dark modern fantasy story Suffer The Children, even though both of them are from that book, and they are free to listen to on my channel The Literary Mercenary. My partner and fellow author Alice Liddell (whom you should go follow on YouTube at Alice The Author if you haven't yet) has had readers tell her with enthusiasm that they'd love her to write something darker, more historical, and with vampires... yet when her book Succumb To Darkness dropped, there was only a fraction of folks who loudly proclaimed it was exactly what they wanted who showed up to buy a copy.

Every author, RPG designer, YouTuber, blogger, and general creator that I know has had to deal with this problem, and it is one of the most exhausting things that crops up time and time again in this profession. Because if you have hundreds (or sometimes thousands) of people who all say they'd love to see X, Y, or Z project made into a reality, then you would expect them to actually turn up to check out the project when it's done. And even if all of them don't, you'd expect maybe half of them to give it a look, right?

Well, as I said in my recent Tabletop Mercenary episode, Audience Support is a Reverse Iceberg, you're lucky if 1 in 10 people in your audience sees that something when it exists, and then if as much as 1 in 10 of those people actually does something to support it.

This is where I'm going to repeat something I've said time and time again on this blog, and which you likely heard in the video above if you watched it (which you should, it's an important topic). In short, creators need the support of their audience if we're going to keep making art. Period, full stop, end of story. If you don't show up for the artists you love, then eventually they're going to give up, and you won't get anything else from them. All we can do is make the art... we depend on you to actually appreciate and consume it so we can get paid at the end of the day.

Now, to be clear, I'm not saying that you need to subscribe to every Patreon for the creators you like, or that you need to buy every book and every piece of art they come out with. That's ridiculous. Yes, it's always good to directly support artists by throwing money at us (we appreciate it very much), but that's not the only way to show your support.

Other things you can (and should) do include:

- Engaging with things creators make (watch videos, read articles, etc.)

- Subscribe to their social media pages, channels, etc. (so your presence weighs on the algorithm scales)

- Boosting their social media signal (leaving comments, heart reacts, sharing posts, and so on)

- Leaving reviews and ratings on the things you do buy

Lastly, and this is perhaps the most important... if you're going to lend your voice to a call for a project, please be sincere about it. You don't have to throw a handful of Benjamins at someone's Kickstarter, or be the first one to get their new art print or plushie, but don't pull a Morbius and say you really want something, only to be a no-show when the creator puts in the work to try to give you what you asked for.

Because Sony might be able to eat that kind of ghosting... but most artists, authors, and others who are just trying to scrape by really can't.

Support The Literary Mercenary

If you want to see me produce more work, consider some of the following options!

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- The A.L.I.C.E. Files (an ongoing audio drama YouTube channel)

And if you happen to have some spare dosh lying around, and you want to be sure my supply doesn't run low, consider become a Patreon patron, or leaving a tip by Buying Me a Ko-Fi!

Also, if you're curious about how to write for tabletop RPGs, don't forget to check out my show Tabletop Mercenary, which you can find on both the Azukail Games channel, as well as my Rumble channel listed above!

Like, Follow, and Come Back Again!

That's all for this week's Business of Writing! For more of my work, check out my Vocal archive, or at My Amazon Author Page where you can find books like my sci-fi dystopian thriller Old Soldiers, the Hardboiled Cat series about a mystery solving Maine Coon in Marked Territory and Painted Cats, my sword and sorcery novel Crier's Knife, or my most recent short story collection The Rejects!

 

And to stay on top of all my latest news and releases, collected once a week, make sure you subscribe to The Literary Mercenary's mailing list.