Writing a Free eBook for a Cause

As a writer many people ask me; How do you make a living? Well, I am pretty much retired really so for me it is not a chosen profession and I am well aware that most writers are broke and well, I just never wanted to be broke I guess? Incidentally I am a retired entrepreneur; a doer in my opinion and all my life I always considered writers to be writers and not doers. In fact I use to have an extremely low opinion of writers for that reason.

Nevertheless along my entrepreneurial journeys, I had actually written many things, such as Operations Manuals for my Companies, 1000s upon 1000s of pages in all. I had accidentally ended up a co-author of a book due to the fact I was on the board of directors for an industry group. Then I had written of all thing an eBook for the public, way back in 1997 when there really was no such thing called; How To Run a Successful Car Wash Fundraiser. Recently someone wrote me an email thanking me for writing this book, which I had completely forgotten about. But it remains online free and has been downloaded almost 100,000 times over the years and it is popular but it will never go Platinum? So I told the gentleman;