Maximize Your Book Earnings

So what happens then? Year two, year three, year four, year five, and like, nobody does the napkin math, but it almost doesn't matter how big the advance is, is that when you take into account the higher royalty, and if you're someone who has an audience and continues pushing it, right, you go from marketing the book that you don't really own, you own 10% of it, to marketing your library that you have majority or all ownership over, and the royalties start outpacing the advance. Most authors, even if they get a million dollar advance, they don't ever see a royalty from their book. So they, they, they just went, I'm going to take the million up front. And sometimes that's the right decision. But if, if you just want to write one book, if you were like, I'm one and done, you made the right decision, you won the status game, probably got a really nice advance, you're, you're good, right? But if you actually enjoy writing and you want to build a library, well, you should own the majority of your library.