[pxue]

You nailed it.

Thank you.

So just to clarify I didn't have an audience when I wrote the book. I took the time and told people my story over the past 6 months, and while I did that - sold books.

I think good storytellers should be able to build an audience regardless of the format - highly recommend any aspiring author to try it.

[vidarh]

The thing is, most storytellers don't have nearly as compelling a value proposition. E.g. the best value a fiction writer can provide is a good story. Your value proposition is selling at least the hope of learning ways of bringing in money. It doesn't need to have a very high chance of success before it's perceived net present value is higher than the cost of your book, while fiction writers are competing with enormous amount of free or already paid for entertainment and fiction from a writer you don't know is often seen as having a sufficiently high risk of being a waste of time that the perceived risk adjusted value for a lot of people is negative.

Getting people to take unknown fiction even for free is an uphill battle.