World’s Highest-Paid Authors (Damn! Missed The List Again!)
Forbes Magazine has listed the world’s highest paid authors.
I can’t BELIEVE it, but I missed the list AGAIN! (What? What was that? … My wife just reminded me that our checking account balance is way closer to the decimal point than these folks’s.)
First, Forbes gives us the bad news that most authors are well aware of thanks to their intimate relationship with the decimal point:
“The golden era of books is over. Sales of adult hardcovers, the most expensive and lucrative category of books, were down 23 percent in the first half of 2011 after falling 5.1 percent in 2010. Yet the world’s top-selling authors — people like Stephenie Meyer, Stephen King, Janet Evanovich and, especially, James Patterson — aren’t exactly hurting.”
And who are these lucky folk:
- James Patterson ($84 million)
- Danielle Steel ($35 million)
- Stephen King ($28 million)
- Janet Evanovich ($22 million)
- Stephenie Meyer ($21 million)
- Rick Riordan ($21 million)
- Dean Koontz ($19 million)
- John Grisham ($18 million)
- Jeff Kinney ($17 million)
- Nicholas Sparks ($16 million)
Ah HAH! I’m looking at the article and realize that I must have just barely missed the list. And I can’t understand why my wife is laughing hysterically.
