{"id":16571,"date":"2019-06-03T13:28:56","date_gmt":"2019-06-03T17:28:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/asengana.com\/?p=16571"},"modified":"2020-11-27T15:57:17","modified_gmt":"2020-11-27T20:57:17","slug":"how-to-write-a-bestseller-answer-you-dont","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asengana.com\/fr\/how-to-write-a-bestseller-answer-you-dont\/","title":{"rendered":"How to write a bestseller? Answer: You don\u2019t."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[et_pb_section fb_built=\u00a0\u00bb1&Prime; fullwidth=\u00a0\u00bbon\u00a0\u00bb disabled_on=\u00a0\u00bbon|on|on\u00a0\u00bb _builder_version=\u00a0\u00bb4.0.3&Prime; custom_padding=\u00a0\u00bb0px||0px|\u00a0\u00bb disabled=\u00a0\u00bbon\u00a0\u00bb global_module=\u00a0\u00bb15033&Prime;][et_pb_fullwidth_post_title meta=\u00a0\u00bboff\u00a0\u00bb featured_image=\u00a0\u00bboff\u00a0\u00bb _builder_version=\u00a0\u00bb4.0.3&Prime; title_level=\u00a0\u00bbh2&Prime; title_font=\u00a0\u00bb|300|||||||\u00a0\u00bb title_text_align=\u00a0\u00bbleft\u00a0\u00bb title_line_height=\u00a0\u00bb1.3em\u00a0\u00bb custom_padding=\u00a0\u00bb20px||20px|\u00a0\u00bb border_color_all=\u00a0\u00bb#4CABE1&Prime; border_width_left=\u00a0\u00bb10px\u00a0\u00bb border_color_left=\u00a0\u00bb#4cabe1&Prime; border_style_left=\u00a0\u00bbdashed\u00a0\u00bb][\/et_pb_fullwidth_post_title][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=\u00a0\u00bb1&Prime; _builder_version=\u00a0\u00bb3.22.3&Prime;][et_pb_row _builder_version=\u00a0\u00bb3.25&Prime;][et_pb_column type=\u00a0\u00bb4_4&Prime; _builder_version=\u00a0\u00bb3.25&Prime; custom_padding=\u00a0\u00bb|||\u00a0\u00bb custom_padding__hover=\u00a0\u00bb|||\u00a0\u00bb][et_pb_text _builder_version=\u00a0\u00bb4.3.4&Prime;]<\/p>\n<p>There is no such thing as writing a bestseller. A bestseller is not a book you write. It\u2019s product.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s right. You can write a good Final Draft. That\u2019s it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>A bestseller is a product sold in big numbers. A product resulting from the collective work of a writer, a literary agent, a cover designer, an editor, a marketing team, an online store or a bookshop, and many more.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You can be a good writer and write a great book, but so can at least another 300,000 people only in North America.<\/p>\n<p>You might be lucky or talented enough to get away with a cover you designed. You might have a small but passionate group of readers that will aggressively promote your book. Your book will be a bestseller only if you understand that it\u2019s a product which needs investment in editing services and much more.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Editors and literary agents are the new gods of the publishing industry no matter if traditional or indie. 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A product resulting from the collective work of a writer, a literary agent, a cover designer, an editor, a marketing team, an online store or a bookshop, and many more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16574,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[4,6,109],"tags":[112,9,88,111,113,62,99,100,110,79,27],"class_list":["post-16571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-4","category-asengana","category-writing-life","tag-amwriting","tag-asengana","tag-editor","tag-indieauthor","tag-novel-writing","tag-writers-way","tag-writers","tag-writing","tag-writing-software","tag-writingcommunity","tag-writinglife","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asengana.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asengana.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asengana.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asengana.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asengana.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asengana.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16571\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asengana.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asengana.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asengana.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asengana.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}