Sites that Pay you to Write Books
The searching for online sites that pay you to write a book is a tricky business. The most dangerous part of it is avoiding the scams. We all know that there are scams there, but not all of us know how easy it really to fall for them.
Associated Content, Google Business Kit, and others may "appear" to be legitimate, but most websites simply put on a professional website face and dummy up a Terms and Conditions page along with a Privacy Policy.
One of the best ways to avoid such scams is to research them before you sign up. Look through user reports, websites such as Ripoff Report or ScamBusters, be suspicious of how much personal information they want from you, and test them.
You can "test" suspicious websites by:
a. Seeing if they have a trademark (this ensures governmental clearance-generally speaking, websites will parade this on their front page)
b. Looking for patents; this also ensures governmental viewing, but BE CAREFUL: this does not mean it is not a scam. Many scam artists are able to fool officials by false advertising and ideas. Don'tlet them do the same to you.
c. Observing how much personal info they are requesting. Most con artists are not stupid enough to put up a request for your social security number, or even the last three or four digits-this is generally a red flag for the average consumer. Instead, they might ask you for your home address or email.Investigate it further-if they let you do a "quick tour," do so before even THINKING about giving your personal information away. You can always give them a backup email with no links to your personal identity in any case; this is always a good way to avoid scam artists from selling your personal information.
As long as you avoid scams and con artists, you can actually make a fair amount of money off of writing at home. Not many websites, however, will literally pay you to write a book-remember, they have to make money too; otherwise theywouldn't be offering the deal!
AuthorHouse has fairly good reviews; Tate Publishing isn'tbad either, and certainly PublishAmerica shouldn't be laughed at. They do not necessarily "pay" you to write a book, but they will, upon accepting your work, publish it for you, with you keeping all rights.
This is not a guaranteed money flow, however, as your book draft could be rejected. Instead, a more subtle, perhaps slower money flow but more effective and fun platform to write for is Triond.
Triond is great for little bits of poetry and excerpts from novels; this is not to say that it'll get you onto the front page of the New York Times, but it is great for a slow but steady money income. Some of the more famous writers for Triondget paid 50+ dollars a month just for writing poetry, publishing photos or other online. And it's not a scam-Triondpays, but you have to work your way up to receive paychecks.
A fair warning is to say that money does not simply roll in the door, or fall off of trees. Unless you wish to engage in a scam, always think of publishing websites from both sides. You want to make money; that'snot a surprise. Who doesn't, especially in the current economic recession? But you have to remember; THEY have to make money as well, especially when times are bad. The chances of finding a source in which will pay YOU to write a novel are very low, unless you know where to look. Triond, for example, makes money off of your work by the number of page views.Advertisers fund Triond, and Triond funds you. They need work to fill their websites, andthat's the only way you can make money off of Triond. The cycle is similar for other online sites such as Bukisa, Oboulo, or other. The worst statistic of it all is that there are over twice as many scams in which will SAY that they will pay YOU to write for them as there are legitimate companies and sites. The sad part is, many people fall for the former, and never manage to locate the latter.
