When you become an author, you will have opportunities literally thrown at you. Struggling for awareness, acceptance, and opportunities to advance yourself will end. The opportunities I am talking about would quite often not be available to people who have not written a book. In fact, a coach I know said point blank that she would not have gotten the job as a radio co-host if it was not for the fact she was the author of a book.

When you have all your book salesmen out in the universe working for you, your random opportunities will take a huge leap in numbers. Doors that you never thought would open to you are now open in previously hard to imagine opportunities.

Not only will there be more random opportunities, but you will find the quality and nature of the opportunities to be more significant than you may have been offered in the past. Write and publish your book and get your army of public relations and sales people attracting the magic to you that you deserve and have created.

More opportunities mean more money, but so do book sales! You can easily make six figures and more each year by leveraging the fact that you are a published author. Many authors miss the financial jackpot when they write their book because they are focused on the old publishing model.

Will book royalties alone make you rich? Probably not, but who would ever turn down money for something that they wrote years ago? The truth is that you can earn royalties years after your book is published. Wouldn’t it be great to show up at work for one day and get paid for it time and time again? Publishing a book is like money in the bank for years to come.

As an author, your best source of revenue will likely derive from the fact that you will be able to market yourself as a published author and generate an impressive stream of income through information products, coaching, continuity programs consulting, public speaking and other similar avenues. What will be your most effective marketing tool? Your book, of course.

New opportunities and more money are certainly fun but so are the perks of being an author. From the day you publish, and every day after that, you will find that you will be introduced as the author of a book. You will have more people take notice of you and many will listen closer to what you have to say. You will be famous in the eyes of many who read your book.

When you walk into a store, do people know you? Do you wish that they did? How would you feel if someone came up to you and said, “I loved your last book?" Wouldn’t that feel great? When you author a book, people will know you. They will know your name and they will want to know more about you. As a result of their interest, you may even have certain opportunities to appear on television, in newspaper and magazine articles or heard through radio interviews.

Fame, fortune, and an easy life, three great reasons to become an author.