This myth is so solid, I hear it repeated over and over. The number is total and complete hogwash. And I will use math and how much money can you make writing fiction ugly arguments to show you that this number is a total and complete myth. And I hope to maybe dive a little into why this myth persists. Why beginning writers need it. So hang on. This myth is as ugly as it is stupid. For hardcover fiction, they list about books down to ,00 copies in hardback, for mass market how much money can you make writing fiction book had to sell above thousand copies to even get mentioned, and trade paperbacks are added at certain levels. Now, if you took a hard look at those numbers and authors, you would realize that even with the same author having more than one book on the lists, there are around different names on those fiction lists. I am not on that list anywhere, neither is Kris or any number of writer friends who make their living writing fiction. Then in three or four workshops, I started...