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Author Income Streams, 4 of 15: Events — Flat Fee
Flat fee events. These are author events where you get paid a set cost to show up and do your thing, whether that’s an appearance and book signing, speaking gig, class, tour, workshop, school assembly, conference session, or something exciting and out-of-the-box you whip up and sell to a paying customer.
Cottage Industry
A big first thing to know about flat fee events — and events in general — is that along with volume sales and unique-to-you grand ideas, they are a pillar of nearly every successful cottage industry I’ve seen authors build around their books over the years.
Author Events
What is an author event? Any situation in which you’re using your status as an author to increase visibility for you and your book/s and, in this case, to make money from that status, your books, or some combination of each. Whether you have one self-published ebook, a dozen traditionally published books, scholarly and professional titles, or a tasty smorgasboard of book formats and publishing types, you can do author…
