I wish biographies spent 10x as much time on the “struggle years” and 1/10 the time on the “now they are rich and successful and donating to a bunch of charities” years
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My impression is that meat-and-potatoes execution on the playbook, and it is a playbook, gets about one $40k launch for a book which took 6 to 16 weeks to write.
As nearly as I can tell, the issue is one of quality. In most areas, a good book will take a 1-5 years of fulltime work to write. My guess is that for @Austen's original wish to be fulfilled requires on the high end of that, usually 3+ years.
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Of course, the books you're talking about can be very useful, & written quite quickly. But they're not the Wright Bros bio...
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I have a hypothesis that the future of writing is self publishing. If you can eliminate the 80-90% a publisher captures it’s relatively easy to sell enough copies to make, say, $100k/book. (I self published my book and made more than 99% of authors)
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