เขียนแล้วรวย

by Alinka Rutkowska, พร่างดาว นุประดิษฐ์ (Translator)

เขียนแล้วจะรวยได้อย่างไร? การเขียนมีหลากหลายวิธี ซึ่งทุกวิธีล้วนนำไปสู่ความสำเร็จทางการเงินทั้งสิ้น.. อ่านกลยุทธ์ 24 เรื่องของนักเขียนและสำนักพิมพ์ที่ประสบความสำเร็จมาแล้ว..

คุณจะพบกับกลุ่มนักเขียนที่น่าทึ่ง พวกเขาเป็นทั้งนักการตลาด ครู และวิทยากรที่ใช้พลังแห่งการเขียนหนุนหลังความสำเร็จ คราวนี้พวกเขามาร่วมกันแบ่งปัน "เคล็ดลับ" ที่ใช้ได้ผลดีที่สุดกับตัวเองมาแล้ว จะอธิบายทีละขั้นตอนว่า.. คุณจะก้าวไปเดินบนเส้นทางนี้จนไปอยู่ในอันดับเดียวกับพวกเขาได้อย่างไร ในเล่มคุณจะได้เรียนรู้จากคำแนะนำของผู้เชี่ยวชาญ เพื่อหลีกเลี่ยงสิ่งที่ควรอยู่ให้ห่างและค้นพบเครื่องมือที่จะช่วยให้คุณคว้าความสำเร็จมาได้เร็วและสบายมากขึ้น

"เขียนแล้วรวย" คือคู่มือความรู้ที่สอดแทรกเคล็ดลับต่าง ๆ ไว้มากมาย คุณจะเรียนรู้การสร้างสรรค์ถ้อยคำให้มีคุณค่ามากกว่าที่คุณคาดคิด ถ้าหากคุณชอบอ่านคำแนะนำจากผู้เชี่ยวชาญ และความคิดเห็นอันหลากหลาย ที่มาในลักษณะคำพูดเรียบง่ายติดดินจากผู้ประกอบการที่ทำได้มาแล้ว รับรองว่าคุณจะชอบหนังสือรวมบทความจากหลากหลายนักเขียนซึ่งเรียบเรียงโดย "อลินกา รุทโควสกา" เล่มนี้อย่างแน่นอน!

Genres: Writing, Business, Nonfiction

288 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2019

About the author

Hi, I'm Alinka Rutkowska and I'm an award-winning and best-selling author and coach.



I've been featured on Fox Business Network, Examiner, She Knows, She Writes, Blog Talk Radio, The Writer’s Life and many more.

I'm giving away presents!

READERS: Go to http://alinkarutkowska.com and get one of my children's books for free!

AUTHORS: Go to http://alinkarutkowska.com/authors-home/ and get my ebook "200 Book Marketing Tips" for free!

Reviews

[Aubree Deimler · Rating 4 out of 5]

I enjoyed the compilation style of this book recounting different advice from authors on: the moment they knew they'd make it as a writer, what motivates them, what tools they couldn't live without, their keys to success, what they'd do if they could go back with the knowledge they have now, and advice for struggling writers.

I picked up gems of great advice throughout and it helped put a bit of a pep in my step and confidence that it is possible to make it as a full time author, which is my ultimate goal! It was great to hear different perspectives of writers making it in different ways.

[Fred Fanning · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book provides a wealth of information on different approaches to managing your books as a business and developing sources of income from books. The author has partnered with other very successful authors who explain their thoughts and processes to writing, selling books, and developing other sources of income around the text. Each author gives a slightly different take. Together they form a rich range of information that can benefit any author who wants to do more with their writing.

[Alexis Chateau · Rating 4 out of 5]

Inspirational but not very informative

I bought this for information but found inspiration instead. That's not a bad thing, per se, but it's not what I signed up for. The first few author contributions were kinda ego trippy to me. The middle onwards were more informative and more inspirational.

I'd been sitting on the first draft of my second novel for six months. After getting to the middle of this book, I resolved to get it out to beta readers, and quit stalling, which I did about a week ago.

[Rachael Stout · Rating 5 out of 5]

A must read for any author!

This book was so full of actionable information from actual authors who are in the market today. The content is well thought out to discuss the ups and downs of publishing. I loved how the authors each talked about their biggest struggles and what they did to overcome them.

I finished this book excited about the possibility of writing again. :)

[Freeread · Rating 2 out of 5]

บทสัมภาษณ์นักเขียน

[John Irvin · Rating 5 out of 5]

Inspirational and Encouraging

I'll tell you what, reading all of these author's stories of their struggles, lessons they learned, and successes really strengthened my hope! These people proved to me that my dreams are obtainable and the struggle of the journey is something I need to appreciate. I recommend this book to any wanna-be full-time writer/author. Because according to these evidences, one day, you and I, won't be wanna-bes.

[Carsten Hansen · Rating 4 out of 5]

Lots of good advice

With a line-up of the kind this book has, there’s bound to be something of value and this book delivers in that department.
Being an author myself, I recognized many of the names and some of the advice, but even so there were new names and pleasant surprises in the bunch.
I’m looking forward to implementing some of the ideas I picked up in this book that is both insightful, valuable and a reasonable quick read.

[Rob Clifton · Rating 5 out of 5]

A real eye-opener

This book consists of a variety of authors answering a series of questions related to their success and the lessons they learned along the way. The real eye-opener for me was finding out there is no "one size fits all" recipe for becoming a successful author, you must go through the process and learn whatworks best for you. I found the advice to be extremely useful, even when 2 different authors gave contradictory advice! The importance of getting help early on, building an e-mail list and learing how to market your book were consistent themes, but each author had at least one valuable piece of information that any aspiring author can benefit from.

[Gail Baugniet · Rating 4 out of 5]

Excellent encouraging advice

Many of the featured authors offer beneficial advice to writers regardless of publishing method or venue. My favorite question posed to each participant focused on their most successful business decisions. This is also a great motivational book to pick up for a quick jolt of enthusiasm; turn to almost any chapter for a success story that will keep you on track to reach your own goals. The hard work is still all on you, but it is nice to have this encouragement at hand.

[Kuang Ting · Rating 4 out of 5]

這本書向24位成功作家取經，詢問他們暢銷的技巧。這24位作家來自六個領域:純作家、傳播業人士、行銷業人士、導師、培訓師、轉型者(企業家)。正如每個行業都有同業工會，作家們也有社群，這是一本集眾人智慧為一體的合輯，就算你跟寫作領域無關，也能從中了解當下”寫作”這門技藝如何跟市場結合。這本書的結構一致，每一章節都由以下幾個問題構成，請每一位作家分享寫作心法:

Q1：你什麼時候意識到自己以作家的身份在經濟上獲得了成功？你出版的第一本書多久取得了成功？你對此感覺如何，為什麼？
Q2：你成功的關鍵因素是什麼？為什麼？
Q3：作為一名作家，你做過的最糟糕的決定是什麼？你如何東山再起並獲得今天的成功？這次失敗是否為你現在的成功奠定了基礎?
Q4：作為一名作家，你最好的決定是什麼？為什麼？
Q5：作為一名作家，你做過的最好的投資是什麼？為什麼？
Q6：如果你失去了所有的行銷工具，只能保留一個，你會選擇哪個？為什麼？
Q7：作為一名作家，你有什麼不尋常的習慣幫助你獲得成功嗎？
Q8：如果用你現在已經掌握的知識重新開始你的寫作職業生涯，你會有什麼不同的做法？
Q9：關於圖書行銷這方面，你經常聽到哪些不好的建議？
Q10：當你感到缺乏動力或者備受打擊的時候，你會怎麼做？
Q11：對於那些仍在艱苦奮鬥的寫作者，你有什麼建議？

每一位作家的態度及技巧各異，這也是這種集各家所長的作品好看的地方! 每個人都有適合自己的方式，只要別違背自己的初心，條條大路通羅馬。

整體讀下來，幾乎每一位作家都”首先”強調建立讀者通訊錄的重要性! 假如認真想要透過寫作賺錢，就必須建立一個屬於自己的平台，可能是粉專或部落格，讓有興趣追隨你的人能跟你聯繫。書中的作家一致同意跟讀者互動的重要性，現代的讀者閱讀通常不是為了文學鑑賞，而是希望自我成長和解決某種問題，所以你寫作要有針對性，先上亞馬遜看一下哪種主題有市場再動筆，不然曲高和寡，書賣不出去自己會先餓死。

他們異口同聲建議有志寫作的人，必須深入了解圖書銷售平台的演算法機制，銷售頁面是否能被消費者點開，往往取決於亞馬遜的”推薦”。假如想被官方推薦，就得達成一些條件，例如書評的數量要超過十條，所以書中有一位作家/書評專家Jason Ladd還特意寫了一本書叫《書評衝鋒法》（Book Review Banzai），教人怎麼快速有效的取得亞馬遜或Goodreads書評。他提及一個有趣的數據，估計來說，一位作家賣出1000本書才能得到一次評論，假如是免費下載的書，下載量5000~10000才會有一次評論。

書中的這些作家大都以電子書為型式出版作品，他們分享了很多關於自助出版的真知灼見。紙本書式微已經不是新聞，印出來放在架上展示幾個月後常常就堆在倉庫，反觀電子書能快速傳播及永久存在，當然能更有效地找到讀者。他們幾乎一致建議雇用封面設計師、編輯、行銷等專業人士來協助出版事業，有些人一開始希望自己一條龍完成，卻發現缺乏效率，成果也不如預期。術業有專攻，既然你是作家，就專心閱讀與寫作，才能產出高質量、有價值的內容，粉絲才會繼續追隨。現在網路已經相當成熟，遠距辦公成為主流，所以他們的團隊幾乎都是遠程助理，並非實體辦公室的同事。

“平易近人”是吸引讀者群的關鍵要素，所謂”全職”作家，經營一段有意義的關係無法一蹴可幾。臉書基本上就是最重要的行銷工具，因為所有人都聚集於此，讀者也會發訊息跟他們聯繫，書中的作家們都相當重視這種一對一的溝通，並盡力回覆每一條訊息，因為讀者希望能跟作者產生聯結，這種小視窗的對話促進彼此的親密感，進而強化支持作家的動力。當讀者群擴大了，作家無法再一對一交談，此時就改以課程、講座、直播等方式一次面向廣大群眾，這也是書中所有作家最終的目標，他們寫書只是先”拋磚引玉”，出版一本書當作名片，之後才有恰當的”身分”開展後續的商業合作。另外很有趣的一點，書中大概2/3的作家也都是某種寫作教練，開課指導其他作家如何成為成功作家(有點繞口令~)，作家是世界上最寂寞的職業，但透過互相支持，除了心靈上的慰藉，更能創造出一股聲浪，進而吸引到讀者的目光。

這本書的訪談都很坦誠，有些人最初抗拒商業化的寫作風格，但是轉個念頭，既然自己能夠幫助他人，對社會總是正面的影響，作家本身也樂在其中，又有適當報酬，何樂而不為呢?

[Carolyn Bowen · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a must-read for how-to become a successful author and/or publisher. The book answers questions that maybe you didn’t know to ask yet in your authors’ journey. If you’re seeking personal and professional growth, this bestseller will lift you up mentally while delivering education that’ll make a difference in your future.

Each of the authors candidly answered the same questions with a variety of descriptive details of their failures and successes plus the tools they used for creating and marketing their products. It’s interesting how the members of the group turned negative events and downfalls into positive learning experiences with a successful outcome.

I made notes while reading and noticed trends for becoming successful and how it was defined individually for the author. You can bet that I’ll follow-up with the resources offered by this group of experts.

[Jodi Ralston · Rating 4 out of 5]

I got a lot of useful and interesting advice from this book, but the number one thing I got? Everyone's path is different. You read these advice books, from people who have had success and speak so authoritatively, and you are sucked into believing if you want to succeed, you have to do it like them, and if you fail, it's because you didn't do it exactly like they specified. There were more differences in methods than similarities in this book. Yet they were all successes. So that means you pick the things that resonate with you, that challenge you, and that spark your imagination, and then you use them to build your own path to success. And you don't give up. Success is possible if you keep in the game, not if you bow out.

[Darrell Gartrell · Rating 5 out of 5]

For both seasoned authors and new, this book is the holy grail of how to become a commercially successful writer and self-publisher. I read this book somewhat casually the first time around, along with a healthy bit of skepticism of course. Midway through I knew this project was for real. Each featured author shares a unique angle in how to break free from the pack. Info I had been, quite frankly, missing. Many of the points raised resonated with me, and I deeply appreciate being able to add this additional knowledge to my endeavors to reach best seller status in the near future! Darrell Gartrell. Author, "21 Years of Wisdom".

[Tin Mayer · Rating 4 out of 5]

Write and Grow Rich is a great book for authors. It features multiple successful authors sharing their experience in writing, marketing, and succeeding. My only concern is that the best practices are only hunted and not really laid out. Which was expected because these authors are successful by selling their secrets.

I would recommend this book to any aspiring writer. There are many things to learn about the self-publishing business and most of them are hinted in this book.

What I took from this book is, again, some hints about things that I need to research for my own upcoming book.

[Cathryn Wellner · Rating 3 out of 5]

The first part of the book read like the intros to those standard, get-rich-with-writing webinars. But later in the book some more potentially useful information was delivered, with more candour. One of the better revelations of the book is that writers approach their craft, and their marketing, differently. So although much of the book read like the ho-hum back patting that's rife on the web, people new to writing and publishing will find some gems in it.

[Ben · Rating 5 out of 5]

Wort investing in this book if you want to prosper as a writer, author, or book marketer.

Well written - the content of book is entertaining and educative. The work is distillation of experience and knowledge of expert writers and author from different niches. Will gladly recommend the book to anyone who wants to learn the rudiments of writing, publishing, and marketing of books. Real value for the price.

[Richie B. · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a well-written book that proves quite useful for budding authors. It is done in a style that can serve as a reference book where you can search anywhere to get the information you require. The broad range of interviews allows you to see that regardless of who you are there is someone who will appeal to you/has similarities to you that writes successfully.

If you ever think of publishing a book, read this book first to short circuit your path to success.

[Tasche · Rating 3 out of 5]

I bought this book when it first came out excited to learn about writing. It's not that kind of book. It took me a while to get back into it but I'm glad I read it. Even though it is geared toward nonfiction, I found a few useful nuggets that made it worth the read.

It's also inspiring to hear many different authors' success stories, and the different paths they followed. It's nice to know there is no ONE right way.

[Chuck · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great advice and some not so great

For the most part, this book is filled with people who are very gifted in writing, marketing, and speaking. Actually, it should be fair to say that all are. However, while most offer sound advice for beginning authors and publishers, a few seemed to be enamored by their own success and were looking to tout their accolades. You will learn much from reading this book. As they say in the South, "Eat the corn; throw away the cobb."

[Marie Theron · Rating 5 out of 5]

Totally inspiring

Once you start this book, and you have your own amazing concept for a book in the back of your mind, things just fall into place. I know that everone of these authors in the interviews are behind me. They truly WANT me to succeed as a writer! Thank you for the priceless encouragement!

[W. Hunt · Rating 4 out of 5]

Solid advice from a variety of authors, including fiction, which is not exceptionally common. Slightly sales pitchy at times, but that is part of the performance of the book: this book and what people do in it (selling services) is how you make money as a writer. Some of the non-fiction advice isn't especially useful, but definitely worth the time.

[Martin Holman · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book took me to school

I decided to buy this book and read it, though for some reason, I am cautious about books penned by multiple authors. I really enjoyed the book however, and learned a lot about today’s publishing industry. I will be putting some of these principles into practice.

[Dave Betts · Rating 1 out of 5]

I hated the title, but the subtitle reeled me in.

This book is utterly useless. Full of self-adoration and arrogance with **very** little advice that is anything more than thinly veiled opportunities to cram some more boasting in.

Do not waste the time it takes to read it!

[C.A. Gray · Rating 4 out of 5]

Inspiring

I always enjoy books like this because they light a fire under me. A lot of contradictory information, but overall it motivates me to get to work on marketing. And that is the most important part.

[C.D. Gill · Rating 3 out of 5]

It was a lot of verbal back patting for these authors who make money from authors, but I learned about a few tools I'd never heard of. While some tooted their own horn, some actually gave legit advice. Checking out Jason Ladd!

[Vincent Zandri · Rating 5 out of 5]

Good book for newbie or vet

Good, informative book on the current state of indie pub. Not so much for the fiction author but if you write nonfiction and run a course or two this is for you.

[Hilary Walker · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love this book and will refer back to it over and over again!

It is a treasure trove of information. The authors interviewed are very diverse in their outlook and approach to writing, with some consistent core messages. There is a wealth of value here for every aspiring author.

[Aaron Daigle · Rating 5 out of 5]

Inspirational and Informative

This book is full of variety. It introduced me to many experts in the field. Many of the stories resonated with me as an author. I encourage all writers, experienced and beginners, to read this book. It’s a great value!

[Rita S. · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book built my confidence and offered great advice.

[N.A.K. Baldron · Rating 2 out of 5]

Smart marketing

This is smart marketing for the author inside, but that's the best I can say about it. It was ok, but nothing special.