I’m the #author of three books, including the best-selling and most highlighted book for Airbnb hosts. I make anywhere from $700 to $5,800 per month from book sales. I find this is comical because I come from a past of mediocre, at best, grades in all writing classes I ever took. But, I always knew something was there. Hindsight is twenty-twenty, as they say, but three things in my early life make it very apparent that I’m a writer in spite of my writing classes. First, when I was very young, I remember getting very excited at the thought of writing one of those ‘Choose Your Own Adventure’ books where you read a page then make a decision at the end of the page and based on that decision you create your own story. Remember those? Second, when I was 11 years old, I started a journal that I’ve written in ever since at least once per month. Almost 1,000 pages as of today. Third, in college, I elected to take a grammar class just for fun and I enjoyed it! For someone getting terrible grades in writing class and not enjoying those classes, this decision seems peculiar. I’ve pretty much always been a reader. I remember in high school reading books on my PDA, an iPhone-looking device from the early 2000’s. I…was…a nerd. “No one makes money from books!” We hear it all the time. But, have you ever thought about who’s saying it? Most definitely not the successful author who made a living selling books. It’s true, there’s more failed authors than successful ones. For me, writing my first book was one of the most rewarding and profitable things I’ve ever done. Almost two years later I’m still receiving a similar amount of monthly income from the book as I did when I first started selling it. Even better, there’s a similar book published four years before me that still does about half as well as I do. It’s the ultimate #passiveincome business. #howtowriteabook #authorsofinstagram #writersofinstagram #bookstagram #authorlife #writerscommunity #writingcommunity #authorsofig #indieauthors #reading #bookworm #publishing #publisher #publishers #books #published #publishedauthor #publishme #publishedwork #selfpublish #passiveincomestreams (en New York, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/CA_iSCgJKXF/?igshid=6q9s4kwvbvsm