Top-selling authors. Top-selling authors. Meh. When I was in college I had to fight the natural fascination of becoming an artist who would appear in the art history books. It’s the wrong intention.
It’s so tempting to look at this list and wish to be on it. I’d rather have a small group of people engaged with what I do.
Aside from an author’s reason from writing, it is fun to see if any of your favorite authors is on the list. It’s sorta like fantasy baseball, but for literature. Hmmm, now there’s an idea… (i’ll have to expand on fantasy literature bestsellers sometime)
I haven’t read anybody on the top 15 . If you are too lazy to click-through to the list, here it is:
James Patterson: $94 million
Stephen King: $39 million
Janet Evanovich: $33 million
John Grisham: $26 million
Jeff Kinney, $25 million
Bill O’Reilly: $24 million
Nora Roberts: $23 million
Danielle Steel: $23 million
Suzanne Collins: $20 million
Dean Koontz: $19 million
J.K. Rowling: $17 million
George R.R. Martin: $15 million
Stephenie Meyer: $14 million
Ken Follett: $14 million
Rick Riordan: $13 million