10 Ways to Make $100k with Your Book

When I wrote my book, I thought the biggest change would come from people reading it. I thought the reward would be the message itself, or the sales, or the reviews, or the moment someone said they felt seen by the pages.

All of that mattered. But none of that was the thing that changed my life.

What changed everything was what the book allowed me to become. What it revealed. What it opened. What it clarified.

The book was a doorway. Not a destination. It was the beginning of something that I could not have built without first telling the story that shaped me.

And that is why this deep dive matters. Because most authors still think the win is book sales. They think selling a thousand copies or landing on a list is where the transformation lives.

Yet every author I know who truly leveled up their impact, their income, or their identity did it because their book became a tool that opened doors they did not even know existed before.

This is the deeper truth behind author success. This is what I want to walk you through today.

Let’s go into the ten real ways authors make money from their books, but more importantly, let’s explore why these ten things work and how they transformed my work, my clients, and my entire perspective on what it means to be an author.

1. Consulting: The Beginning of Almost Everything

Consulting is where I now begin every conversation with authors who want to understand their book’s true potential. It is the clearest path because consulting grows out of clarity, and a book is one of the strongest demonstrations of clarity a person can create.

Consulting is your expertise, matching a business or an organization's need to solve a problem that you unlock. This can be over a few months or a few years depending on your services.

I have seen my friend and author Michael Schank unlock opportunities over $100k from a few viral posts on LinkedIn after we got crystal clear on his messaging to who he serves.

This is why StoryBrand became a global force. Donald Miller wrote a book that explained a problem so cleanly and directly that readers could finally see what had been in front of them for years. The consulting empire did not grow because he marketed himself aggressively. It grew because the book made people say, “I need help with this.” The clarity inside the pages created demand for the work outside them.

This was the first time I understood that a book is not just information. It is the way someone decides they trust you.

Every successful author I know has walked this path, whether they label it consulting or not. When readers see how you think, they come to you asking for guidance. They want to apply your lens to their world.

A book makes that possible. A book begins the conversation before the conversation has even begun.

2. Speaking: The Book That Rewrites Your Introduction

When my book came out, something subtle and profound shifted. People finally had a simple, clear way to introduce me. Before the book, I was the designer or the entrepreneur or the guy with the creative background and the refugee story. After reading the book, I became the author who told a story about resilience, identity, and rebuilding oneself from the ground up.

I specifically wrote my book to speak more and leverage my story for higher-paid opportunities. I spent around $20k to write and officially publish my book.

I have earned well over $60k in speaking opportunities since I launched it in 2021, and honestly, I haven't been that aggressive in building my speaking as I have been building Rising Authors Services.

That clarity opened stages. Not because the book was a bestseller, but because the book made my story easier to understand and easier to invite.

Speaking is built on perception. Perception is built on clarity. Clarity often arrives through a book.

The moment a book moves from idea to page, you begin to occupy a different space in the world. You stand on your story differently. You speak from a deeper center. And people feel it.

This is why speaking becomes a natural extension of authorship. Your book creates the platform. Your voice fills it.

3. Coaching: When Your Story Meets Someone Else’s Struggle

Coaching is not about information. It is about recognition. It is about someone reading your work and saying, “This person understands the world the way I feel it.”

My coaching clients found me through my book because they saw themselves in the struggles I talked about. They recognized my perspective. They connected with the way I rebuilt myself and the way I approached identity and clarity.

A book creates resonance long before the coaching relationship begins. It prepares people for the work. It brings alignment before you ever speak.

Coaching becomes powerful when the book has already done the emotional introduction.

4. Services: The Agency Hidden Inside the Book (Rising Authors)

Rising Authors began, quietly, inside the pages of my book. I didn’t know it at the time. But authors began reaching out after reading it, not because they liked my story, but because they wanted their own story to be expressed with the same level of clarity and intention.

The book revealed my standards. It revealed my philosophy. It revealed how deeply I care about identity and voice.

People hired Rising Authors because they knew, from reading my book, that I would handle their story with seriousness.

A book becomes the strongest case study you will ever produce. It is the portfolio piece that proves your expertise more honestly than any pitch deck.

5. Workshops: The Book Brought to Life

Not every author is built for workshops. This is one of the truest things I can say. Workshops require presence, energy, leadership, and the ability to gather people with intention.

But for the authors who can gather, the book becomes the curriculum. The room becomes the transformation. The workshop becomes the embodiment of the message they wrote.

A workshop is your book in three dimensions. It is the live experience of what you hoped readers would feel when they turned the last page.

And when done well, it becomes one of the strongest trust-building experiences an author can create.

6. Communities and Masterminds: Shared Language Becomes Shared Purpose

Books create shared understanding. Shared understanding forms tribes. Tribes naturally grow into a community.

When people connect with you on the level of identity and worldview, they want to stay close. They want to learn more. They want to grow together.

A community grows around the ideas that feel true and necessary. My own work attracts authors who are navigating identity, clarity, purpose, resilience, creativity, and reinvention. These ideas became the foundation for Rising Authors because they already lived inside the book.

A book becomes the manifesto. The community becomes the living expression of it.

7. Raising Capital: The Book That Shows How You Think

Investors study books differently. They are not reading for entertainment. They are reading for structure, discipline, and logic.

A book reveals how your mind works. It reveals whether you are reactive or strategic, whether you see patterns, whether you understand timing, whether you can articulate a coherent vision.

In real estate, philanthropy, startups, coaching, and education, authors use their books to raise capital. The book becomes evidence of thinking that can be trusted with resources.

A well-written book gives investors confidence before the meeting even begins.

8. Attracting High Net Worth Clients: The Book That Speaks Their Language

High net worth clients want expertise. They want precision. They want someone who understands their world and speaks directly to it.

This is why niche nonfiction is one of the most underestimated strategies for authors. When your book tells someone, “I understand you,” the relationship changes. You become the person they trust with complex decisions.

A book aimed at a specific type of reader becomes the quiet magnet that pulls your exact clients toward you.

9. Reinvention: The Book That Reintroduces You to the World

A book is the most powerful way to change how people see you. It is the cleanest identity shift you can create.

Before my book, people saw me through the lens of my business history. After my book, they saw the deeper worldview that shaped everything I had built. They saw the resilience, the clarity, the intentionality, the creative discipline.

The book did not just tell my story. It reframed me. And that reframing became the bridge into the work I do now.

A book is not just something you publish. It is something you step into.

10. Courses and Digital Products: Scaling What the Book Begins

Courses scale the ideas inside your book. They take the structure you already created and turn it into a guided experience.

Most authors already have enough content inside their book to create an entire learning ecosystem. They simply don’t realize it because the book feels like “the finished thing.”

But a book is really the blueprint for everything that follows. Courses become the lighthouse for readers who want more direction. Digital products become the tools that help people apply what your book awakened.

A book begins the transformation. The course carries it forward.

Author Spotlight: Cheri Bergeron

Cheri Bergeron is one of the clearest examples of how a book can transform an identity and open an entirely new path. She wrote her book to give women permission to create motherhood on their own terms, outside of expectations and timelines that never considered the complexity of a woman’s life.

Her message grew from personal truth into a mission. Her mission turned into speaking opportunities. Her speaking turned into advocacy. Her advocacy is also a nonprofit that will serve mothers in meaningful and empowering ways in 2026.

Her book did not close a chapter. It opened one.

Her story is powerful, and her new podcast episode is live now. I encourage you to listen to it. Her journey speaks to every author who has ever questioned whether their book can create real impact. She shows exactly how it can.

So Many Opportunities

There are countless ways to earn from your book that have nothing to do with selling a massive number of copies or relying on a slow, one-sale-at-a-time grind.

What actually matters is choosing the path that aligns with who you are and how you want your book to evolve into something that serves you for years. I call this your author offers. You decide what you create, what you charge, and how premium the experience becomes. The clearer and more valuable the offer, the more it elevates everything else you do.

But none of that happens without clarity. When you launch a book with real clarity behind it, you instantly gain the strongest conversation starter you could ever ask for. It opens doors. It frames your expertise. It positions you to support the exact people who have been searching for someone like you.

This is what I help authors and experts build every day. We take the noise out, create a clean online presence, and shape an ecosystem that meets your audience where they already are.

If you want help setting this up, message me or visit rising-authors.com to book a call. Prices are increasing for 2026, so if working together is something you’ve been considering, now is the time to secure your spot before the new year.

-Hussein