Help: How-to for fiction writers Niche?

Yes, interesting. Well, maybe promising?

Generally, they don't care. They want content because it strikes them in such a way that they want to share it with their own readers/visitors/subscribers/traffic because of its quality.

There are people who imagine that "bloggers won't re-publish articles already published" but anyone doing a bit of research can see for themselves that it's just nonsense: plenty of people syndicate articles from Ezine Articles and from other places, too. All you have to do is find top-quality articles and see how widely some of them have been published. Not everyone thinks of their business in terms of "search engine traffic only". :p

There are always a few people who - in spite of the enormous and consistent lengths Google goes to, to clarify this - will imagine that syndicated content is "duplicate content" (:rolleyes and that they'll somehow "get in trouble from Google" if they re-publish it, but one can just ignore them (recommended, because it's certainly a pain in the neck trying to re-educate them!).

However, you can also send articles to people whose sites announce that they don't accept previously published work and find that they'll publish it anyway. If they want the article enough, they'll sometimes change their minds, I think. (I haven't done this a lot, but again, I know people who have).

Yes, it might be ... but that's perhaps more because the owners of those sites may see you as a competitor? Competing sites, in any niche, are hardly going to sydnicate your articles? (I think this is a problem that people in "IM niches" have).

Don't know - only time and experience will tell (not my niche!).

I've never done this at all. I know there are people who do. It doesn't suit me. I don't like to do anything to draw potential publishers' attention to my site at all. (I have a link to my landing-page, of course, so they can find it when they check, which I imagine many do, but that's all). I want to send them every individual article they publish and build a relationship with them.

First piece of advice: Don't listen to idiots. :p

The size of your checks will be determined by a few factors...

1. You will get anywhere from 4% to 8% on the sale of a book, depending on your monthly sales volume.

2. The price of the book being sold. If you are selling 99 cent books, you will see commissions on the sale of a book of between 4c and 8c. But most of the best books in this niche will be priced at between $9 and $50, so you will be seeing commissions from 4% x $9 = 36c and 8% x $50 = $4.00.

3. The amount of traffic volume you can push through your site, and by extension, the number of people buying books based on your recommendations. If you suck at traffic, don't count on the money that hasn't arrived yet. If you can get 10,000 visitors to your site each month and 1% of those buy something from you, that would amount to 100 sales per month.

4. When you start creating your own book titles for fiction writers to sell in the online bookstores, you can put a link to your website inside of your books, and as a result, you might just find that your traffic will go up and your sales conversion rate will also go up since more of your traffic will be better targeted.