Amanda M Lee: Unconventionally Successful Author

When you Google Search: “Amanda M Lee”, you might be surprised that she has gained enough online fame that Google Search has a dedicated feature of her profile in its search results.

She has made enough money in the few short years that she’s been writing novels that she’s now a certified millionaire many times over, even buying a new house using cash from her book earnings. This is how much she’s earned from her book sales.

As you can see, she’s an author that you should watch out for and even emulate if you want to be a successful author yourself. Another interesting thing about her career as an author is that she has no previous book writing experience before she became a successful author.

Also, she too wasn’t an instant success. With her first few novels only selling a few copies after a couple of months of no sales at all. Her career as an author is well recommended for studying as it doesn’t follow the usual route of many instantly successful celebrity authors.

The Details:

1. Who Is Amanda M Lee?

Amanda M Lee is an American from Michigan, USA. She is best known for her supernatural-themed novels of which her witch characters are very popular and feature prominently in many of her novels.

She first started writing novels when she got laid off from her job as a reporter from the local newspaper. She said that her job as a reporter before prepared her for the grueling discipline she has instilled in her writing which enabled her to produce between two to three novels a month.

She admits that one of her writing routines or luxury was to go to her favorite coffee shop and write there for hours before returning home to do more writing. She also says that unlike other authors, she can almost write anywhere, in any setting.

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2. She was a Reporter Before

Just like such successful authors like Neil Gaiman who was originally an author but became a journalist because he initially didn’t find success as an author, Amanda didn’t start her writing career as an author but as a journalist instead.

She admits that being a journalist honed her writing skills although not for writing novels which she claimed she needed time to be good at. But being a journalist gave her the work ethic she needed for her very productive novel writing output.

She also states that her decades long experience as a journalist helped her draw from it some of the stories and characters she would later on use in her novels. She follows the writing mantra: “Write What You Know.”

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3. A Careful Approach to Writing Success

After she got fired from her reporter job at the local newspaper, she started writing novels of which she didn’t initially find success. But gradually, her books started selling until it gave her an income on a monthly basis which was more than what she was earning as a reporter before.

But when her local newspaper asked her to return to her old job as a reporter, she returned to it even though she was already making more money as an author. She reasoned that what drove her to do this was her fear that her career as an author won’t last and she needed regular income.

But she continued being an author even though she already had her old job as a reporter. It was only after she realized that she cannot do both at the same time that she decided that she would rather become a full-time author because contrary to her previous fears, it was giving her a stable monthly income.

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4. Being Very Productive

Here is where she deviates from the norm of other successful and rich authors: She writes between two to three novels a month which averages to about 70,000 words long. This is how productive she is.

If you’re thinking that because she’s producing high volumes of work, her writing quality would suffer, think again. The proof of the quality of her writing is in how many of her novels she sells in a month which averages between $90,000 to $138,000 a month.

If you think that writing a minimum of 7,000 words a day like she does is nearly impossible, think again. The late Michael Crichton who is one of the most successful authors of all time, is known to write more than 10,000 words a day.

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5. Distractions Don’t Faze Her Writing

She admits that she can almost write under any situation, including with a lot of distractions to her writing. It has already been said before that one of her writing routines or luxury would be to go to her favorite coffeeshop and write there for hours on end.

She also states that once she returns home, she writes while entertaining herself by watching reruns of her old favorite television shows. She also admits that she writes while monitoring her social media pages.

As you can see, unlike other successful authors like Stephen King who himself is already a very productive author who writes six pages a day or about 2,500 words, but needs silence when he works, she can write more even while entertaining herself.

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6. She Does Her Own Book Covers

As if being a much more productive author and having the ability to write even with distractions around her unlike other authors, she still has the time and the skills to do her own book covers which she admits that she enjoys doing.

She has a subscription with an online stock photo site and have skills in image manipulation which she states she learned from her previous job as a reporter. She even proofreads her novels herself, doing so after each chapter she has written.

As you can see, she can do it all and have been doing so even before the beginning of her author career. If you think that you need to spend a lot of money on professionals who would assist you in creating your book, she is proof that you can do everything yourself and still be successful.

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7. She Makes Close to $1 Million a Year

The figures might fluctuate, but she reportedly makes close to $1 million a year. Remember that she also states that she makes between $90,000 and $138,000 a month, so $1 million a year is a good indicator of what she’s earning.

This means that she’s earning about $83,000 a month and about $21,000 a week. Assuming that these are her stable earnings figures, then she is already a certified millionaire many times over in the less than a decade, or 2014, since she has been writing novels.

In her parting tip, she stated that adult fiction of which she writes in the supernatural genre, is one of the most profitable genres in book writing and unless you’re writing adult fiction, you might struggle to make money off writing novels. Of course, this is her personal assessment.

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Final Words

As you can see, Amanda M Lee is not your typical author. For one, she is already a certified millionaire many times over in the less than a decade since she has written her first novel. She is unlike the majority of authors today who struggle even making a living wage with their book writing.

But she’s also very different in the way she writes novels. She writes several novels a month, entertains herself while writing her novels, and can almost write anywhere. She is unlike other authors who only writes about two to three novels a year at most, and needs complete silence while they’re writing.

She is proof that you don’t have to follow the writing advice of many successful authors who espouse that to succeed, you need months or even years to write a book and must work with no distractions at all and in complete silence.

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