Top ten richest authors in the world.

  You can make cool cash from writing, I mean cool cash. As long as you write something cool too.

Here is a list of ten richest authors in the world.

10.   Stephenie Meyer : Meyer is the author of the twilight series,The host and recently, The chemist. She is best known for the twilight series. She was born December,24 ,1973. 

    Twilight, has sold over 100 million copies, with translations into 37 different languages. Meyer was the bestselling author of 2008 and 2009 in the U.S., having sold over 29 million books in 2008, and 26.5 million in 2009. Meyer received the 2009 Children's Book of the Year award from the British Book Awards for her Twilight series finale Breaking Dawn.

   With no prior experience as an author, the idea for the Twilight series came to her in a dream. Influenced by the work of Jane Austen and William Shakespeare, she wrote Twilight soon thereafter. After many rejections, Little, Brown and Company offered her a $750,000 three-book deal which led to a four-book series, several spin-off novels and novellas, and a series of commercially successful film adaptations. It is worth mentioning that she was rejected 14 times by publishers. Her estimated net worth is  $180million.

9.    John Grisham: John Ray  Grisham Jr is well known for writing legal thriller novels that keeps me turning pages all through the night. John is an attorney, politician, author and activist born on the 8th of February,1955. He was a Member of the Mississippi House of Representatives from the 7th district between the years  1984–1990. John is a democrat. 

   Let's talk about John's writing,His first novel, A Time to Kill, was published in June 1989, four years after he began writing it. As of 2012, his books had sold over 275 million copies worldwide. A Galaxy British Book Awards winner, Grisham is one of only three authors to sell two million copies on a first printing, the other two being Tom Clancyand J. K. Rowling.

Grisham's first bestseller, The Firm, sold more than seven million copies. The book was adapted into a 1993 feature film of the same name, starring Tom Cruise, and a 2012 TV series which continues the story ten years after the events of the film and novel.  Eight of his other novels have also been adapted into films: The Chamber, The Client, A Painted House, The Pelican Brief, The Rainmaker, The Runaway Jury, Skipping Christmas, and A Time to Kill. Grisham's latest book (which is also his 40th published novel), The Guardians, explores the story of Cullen Post, a defense attorney and Episcopal priest, who works to overturn a wrongful conviction. 

    His estimated net worth is $200 million.

8. Dean Koontz: you must have probably heard of this awesome author, especially during this time. His book ,Eyes of darkness has been trending due to the fictional virus written about  in the book originating in Wuhan bearing some similar qualities with corona virus. I don't know if Dean can see the future ,but what I do know is ,Dean is a terrific writer. 

    Born,July, 8,1945. Dean has written a lot of suspense thrillers, horror, fantasy,science fiction, mystery and satire. 

Many of his books have appeared on The New York Times Best Seller list, with 14 hardcovers and 16 paperbacks reaching the number-one position.Koontz wrote under a number of pen names earlier in his career, including "David Axton", "Deanna Dwyer" , "K.R. Dwyer" , "Leigh Nichols", and "Brian Coffey". He has published over 105 novels, a number of novellas and collections of short stories, and has sold over 450 million copies of his work. 

His estimated net worth is $275 million. 

7. Tom Clancy:   Clancy was known for writing military-science  novels. His notable works include, The Sums of all Fear,Patriot Games, The hunt for Red October.  His estimated net worth is $300 million. 

6. James Patterson:   Born March,22 ,1946. James Patterson has a Guinness world record of 1 million ebooks.  He is well known for his Alex Cross Series ,in which the main character is a psychologist.  He has written 114 best sellers. Since his debut novel Mrs Bridge. His estimated net worth is $310 million.

   

5.   Daneilee Steel: born August 14, 1947 is an American writer, best known for her romance novels. She is the bestselling author alive and the fourth bestselling fiction author of all time, with over 800 million copies sold.  She has written 179 books, including over 146 novels. 

  Her novels have been bestsellers, including those issued in hardback. Her formula is fairly consistent, often involving rich families facing a crisis, threatened by dark elements such as prison, fraud, blackmail and suicide. Steel has also published children's fiction and poetry, as well as raising funds for the treatment of mental disorders. Her books have been translated into 43 languages, with 22 adapted for television, including two that have received Golden Globe nominations. Her estimated net worth is $375 million. 

4. Stephen King : Stephen Edwin King born ,September 21, 1947 is an American author of horror, supernatural fiction, suspense, and fantasy novels. His books have sold more than 350 million copies, many of which have been adapted into feature films, miniseries, television series, and comic books. King has published 61 novels (including seven under the pen name Richard Bachman) and six non-fiction books. He has written approximately 200 short stories, most of which have been published in book collections.  His estimated net worth is $ 400 million. 

3.   Candy Spelling:  Carole Gene "Candy" Spelling née Marer; born September 20, 1945is an American author, theater producer, and philanthropist. She was married to Aaron Spelling, who produced  Charlie's angels and Beverly hills from 1968 until his death in 2006. She regularly writes for the Huffington post ,Los Angeles confidential and TMZ.com. Spelling's autobiography, Stories from Candyland, released in March 2009, hit The New York Times best seller list two weeks after publication. Her memoir, Candy at Last, was published by Wiley in May 2014.

   In December 2011 and January 2012, Spelling produced and starred in Selling Spelling Manor, a two-episode special for HGTV that documented the process of moving from and selling her 123-room, 56,500 square foot home. In 2013, she produced and starred in Beyond Spelling Manor, a three-episode series about the construction of her subsequent residence, a $35m condominium, and her search for an apartment in New York City. The series also aired on HGTV. 

Candy Spelling's Manor.

2.   Jim Davis:  James Robert Davis (born July 28, 1945) is an American cartoonist, best known as the creator of the comic strips Garfield and U.S. Acres (a.k.a. Orson's Farm). Published since 1978, Garfield is one of the world's most widely syndicated comic strips.Davis's other comics work includes Tumbleweeds, Gnorm Gnat and Mr. Potato Head.  His estimated net worth is $800 million. 

1.JK Rowling:  The Harry Potter series is the best selling book series of all history. 

The Harry Potter series was written by JK Rowling.  

Born 31 July 1965 ,better known by her pen name J. K. Rowling, is a British author, film producer, television producer, screenwriter, and philanthropist. She is best known for writing the Harry Potter fantasy series, which has won multiple awards and sold more than 500 million copies,becoming the best-selling book series in history. The books are the basis of a popular film series, over which Rowling had overall approval on the scripts and was a producer on the final films. She also writes crime fiction under the name Robert Galbraith.

 Harry Potter is now a global brand worth an estimated US$15 billion,and the last four Harry Potter books have consecutively set records as the fastest-selling books in history. The series, totalling 4,195 pages,has been translated, in whole or in part, into 65 languages. Her estimated net worth is $1billion.