Best Paid Authors
Forbes came out with a list of the top paid authors from the past year. Here are the top five.
1. J. K. Rowling–$300 million!
2. James Patterson–$50 million
3. Stephen King–$45 million
4. Tom Clancy–$35 million
5. Danielle Steel–$30 million
Most of the money comes from movie deals and such like. Most of it also comes from writing about the enjoyments of sin sin sin.
Posted: October 5th, 2008 under General Book-Related Stuff.
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