4 Things Bestselling Authors Don’t Want You To Know

Why success seems so out of reach for the everyday writer

Elise L. Blake
Becoming An Author

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A bestselling author with millions of book sales, thousands of devoted fans, and a large online following can seem like a god among the rest of us writers who may be struggling to get our foot through the doorway let alone climb to the highest room in the tower.

Many of us stuck on the tower’s lowest level may be asking ourselves, “What’s their secret? What do they know that the rest of us don’t?”

Turns out there are a few tricks they've kept hidden up their sleeves from the rest of us, but it’s time to pull back the curtain and let it all be exposed.

Overnight Success Is A Myth

While social media may make it seem like some of these writers went to bed with dreams of hitting the big-time writing leagues and woke up full-fledged best-selling authors that couldn’t be further from the truth.

It was even recently exposed that several writers on TikTok who started claiming that it was all due to their accounts being found by agents that they had received a book deal — had lied — they had the deal almost a year before they started posting on TikTok but wanted to use the tools they had to grow their account and attempt to…

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Elise L. Blake
Becoming An Author

Full-time writing coach and novelist. Elise is a recent college graduate where she earned her BA in Creative Writing.