Monday, February 21, 2011

How to Get Filthy Rich as a Novelist

I know a sure way to make a ton of money writing a novel.

Write a novel about some amazing crime.  How about robbing a casino or Fort Knox or a multinational bank.  Come up with slightly outrageous but lovable characters, an impossibly complex plot and gorgeous and exotic settings.  Spend a lot of time setting up the plans and the relationships between the characters.  Make sure there are lots of close calls.  But this is terribly important: make sure your mastermind gets away with it.

This is also important: do all your own research, meticulous and real world.  Do this by actually committing the crime.  The novel may not make a dime, but at least you will have the proceeds from your remarkable research.

If you get caught and thrown into jail, hey, I said you would be rich, not free to move about the world.

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