/lit/,

I am a moderately successful novelist. By moderately successful, I mean: almost certainly none of you have heard of me, but I've made a fair bit of money from writing (so far only advances as it's early days).

Anyway, that said I am in a strong position - I have a very good agent and the requisite skill-set and colleagues to produce a novel (not necessarily a "great one", but a publishable one at the very least (although, if I'm honest, I believe I can write a classic, but it's bad taste to say so)).

Now, my question is this: how can I make obscene amounts of money?

What are the repeated component parts, in your fairly broad, intelligent, group opinion, that a commercial book needs? Have you any up-for-grabs ideas or concepts?

Don't just yell: YA with a quirky protagonist and a vanilla love interest. Or ISSUES or POST APOCALYPTIC TEEN DYSTOPIA.

Because A) this is lazy and untrue, for every one of these examples there are five hundred failures and B) I intend to write something mass appeal, that is still good and this shan't be about cancer ridden teenage girls.

Please don't think I'm only interested in money. I am interested in art, but recognise that having money means having freedom and having freedom means having time.

Or, general writing thread.