Anyone know of any websites where you can actually make money from novels/comics?

[missros_e]

For the 100 subscribers ad thing on here, you need I'm guessing 100, 000 views to make £1 which I know I will never get to. I'll get 100 subscribers for all my work eventually but won't make any money ever. Is there any websites where you can make money based off views and don't need as many views or somewhere where you can monetise your work? Like I have patreon but no patrons and webtoon but barely any views, I know after you get a certain amount of views you can get paid but I'm nowhere near there. Any help or advice?

[BlairFujin]

ad revenue is low nowadays in general and there's no going around it and if you can't get people to subscribe to your patreon it's more likely an issue with your offer or it being too early for you than the platform itself
I'll be honest, with 100 subscribers to a free comic you won't earn money anywhere (also, in general, if it's the money you're after and not passion for storytelling, I suggest you to just drop webcomics/novels, it's not an easy money place)

ok, as for better monetisation options:
https://www.comicad.net - allows other indie comics creators to put their ads on your site, the prices are set with a bidding process and the payout is not per views but per days the ad is being displayed (but the more the views your site has the more likely others will be willing to pay for adspace on it), you need a website that allows you to edit html of it to host your work on, so it's for people with their own websites, or hosting on comic fury (don't know if other comic platforms let you edit html of your comic's page)
flowfo, globalcomix - those are comics platforms that let you both publish your works for free and put them behind a paywall (set price for a release, plus option to sell pdfs on globalcomix, as a patreon-like subscription on flowfo)
itch.io - it's mostly a platform for indie games but you can also sell written/drawn works as pdfs

[cherrystark]

From the writer's perspective, if you want to make any sort of income writing - you have to ween yourself away from free platforms. Don't get me wrong, free platforms are a great place to start. But it gets really exhausting trying to rebuild your audience on every new platform. The people on the free sites are there for free content and often don't want to pay for stories. A lot of writing platforms offer some type of monetization but they only want stories that fit into their specific criteria. You may make more money on those platforms, but you seriously risk losing your rights to your IP. Patreon is a good option to make money but you REALLY have to market yourself and make a solid product.

As a writer, I've had relatively good luck at self-publishing. I keep the rights to my work and basically as long as I'm getting readers - I get money. There is no threshold I have to meet before I can earn. It's a nice change.

[missros_e]

Thanks, yeah I know, free platforms have been a great start from me but it is exhausting trying to constantly rebuild an audience and nothing happening over several years. I tend to stay away from those websites that offer monetisation pretty quickly as my work isn't what they're looking for or they have dodgy contracts I don't want to risk signing.

I'm self published too but haven't had many sales as it's available for free here. I think I'm going to go with my original plan which was to use free websites to promote my work only with just a sample and then they can buy my self published work or become a Patron as I'll make everything available for Patrons and all my future work can be on Patreon because self publishing is also exhausting and time consuming with the amount of editing/checks involved and getting it in the right format for the self publishing site. I just need to work on my Patreon as I've not been using it long and am stuck on tiers, I only have one so far £3 a month for access to uploads ahead of Tapas which pretty cheap and I have multiple novels and a comic with many more to come hopefully but no one is interested so far.

[missros_e]

Thanks, it's real shame as I have the passion, I love writing/drawing and creating novels/comics. Yeah it might be the one tier I have on offer for £3 a month for uploads ahead of Tapas, I need 2 more tiers but not sure what else to offer.

I don't want to join anymore websites, it's exhausting trying to build an audience for several websites already. I think I just need to work on my marketing and promotion as well as my Patreon then hopefully I will get somewhere because this is one of my dream careers which I want to do for the rest of my life.

[BlairFujin]

For patreon tiers, I suggest looking up creators in the same niche as you and checking up what do they offer but yeah, focus on building up audience at all and then try redirecting the more invested part to your patreon

[missros_e]

Thanks, I have actually added more tiers, the first tier being the cheapest for access to only my 1 comic, the next tier for access to all my novels as I have multiple and then the final tier is access to my comic and all my novels. Not sure if that will work, I'll have see what happens but I will have a look to see what others are offering and see how I can change mine if nothing changes.