#303 - Published Author Adds Income Source; Makes Additional $21,000 Her First Year
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 30 October 2017
⏱️ 9 minutes
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A successful novelist teaches an online course about productivity for writers, reaching 3,700 students in year one.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome! |
| 0:08.3 | This is Chris Gillebo for Side Usual School, we are starting a brand new week. |
| 0:12.6 | Today is episode 303, and in every episode I'm telling a story of someone who creates |
| 0:17.4 | a new source of income. |
| 0:19.6 | Usually by using the skills they already have, just perhaps applying them in a different |
| 0:22.9 | way. |
| 0:23.9 | Now today's is a great one to kick off the week, it's about a successful, published author, |
| 0:28.1 | who's done books with major publishers including Random House, Simon & Schuster and others, |
| 0:32.4 | but like a lot of people she wanted to diversify her income. |
| 0:35.6 | And not just diversify it, but increase it through a new revenue source. |
| 0:39.5 | I'll tell you how it came about and what she's learned through the process, and she's |
| 0:42.6 | also got some tips, some advice, and a lot of details in this story for you. |
| 0:46.2 | I think you're gonna like this one, it's coming up right after this quick message. |
| 0:58.4 | A recent transplant to Portland, Oregon, Jessica Brody is a seasoned author with over a |
| 1:05.4 | decade of experience under her belt. |
| 1:07.7 | She's written more than 15 novels for teens, kids, and adults. |
| 1:11.4 | Those novels have come out from big publishers including Random House, Simon & Schuster and |
| 1:14.9 | McMillan, and she's also the author of The Descendants, School of Secret Series, published |
| 1:20.0 | by Disney Press and based on the hit Disney Channel original movie Descendants. |
| 1:24.4 | Having found the success many writers dream of, Jessica thought it might be worthwhile to |
| 1:27.8 | share her knowledge with others. |
| 1:29.8 | And like many before her, she started leading in-person workshops on writing with her local |
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