The World's Top Earning Authors of 2013

Hello Everyone!
Forbes Magazine has just published its list of the authors who made the most money this year. You may ask "This year? Not over their entire lifetime?" once you see the figures below, but, believe me, each author did indeed make all that money THIS YEAR (and this is ONLY the money they made off stuff relating to their books - not investments, etc.).
To the list:
  1. E.L. James - $95 million
  2. James Patterson - $91 million
  3. Suzanne Collins - $55 million
  4. Bill O'Reilly - $28 million
  5. Danielle Steel - $26 million
  6. Jeff Kinney - $24 million
  7. Janet Evanovich - $24 million
  8. Nora Roberts - $23 million
  9. Dan Brown - $22 million
  10. Stephen King - $20 million
  11. Dean Koontz - $20 million
  12. John Grisham - $18 million
  13. David Baldacci - $15 million
  14. Rick Riordan - $14 million
  15. J.K. Rowling - $13 million
  16. George R.R. Martin - $12 million
Never let it again be said that writing can't pay well. Regardless, something is seriously wrong in a society where disgusting books like Fifty Shades of Grey and terrible quality writing like there is in almost everything James Patterson writes make millions - just saying.

Check out the full article here:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffbercovici/2013/08/12/the-worlds-top-earning-authors-with-50-shades-e-l-james-debuts-at-no-1/

2 comments:

  1. Who is E. L. James and how in the world does he make $95 million in a year???!!!

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  2. SHE is the woman who wrote the Fifty Shades of Grey trilogy.
    The books started as a twilight fanfiction called Master of the Universe. Probably the most scandalous series of the year - steamy romance full of... twisted scenes of scoodly-pooping (to use polite terms). Read the article and you'll see what I mean. The majority of her money came from ebook sales, as ebooks make for more... discreet... reading. She also, of course, got money from hardcopy sales and a chunk of change from a movie adaptation that's being developed as we speak.

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