The World’s Top 10 Earning Authors

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No.  7 Top Earning Author: Janet Evanovich — $24 million

Janet Evanovich’s first pseudonym was Steffie Hall, writer of contemporary romance novels. Yet this approach didn’t give her the public’s response she would get when developing a series of contemporary mysteries featuring Stephanie Plum. After finishing her twelfth romance she realized that she was more interested in writing some action sequences, more adventurous, scenes in her novels, rather than the sex scenes. Her editors were not interested in her change of heart, so she had to produce a very appealing manuscript in order to get her publisher’s attention on what she actually wanted to write. She got it right and her bestselling book has reached the sum of $24 million.

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