What first drew me to Eyes on the Dollar was the fact that she’s an optometrist. I spent three years working for ophthalmologists, so I have a passing interest in those who care for eyes for a living. I’ve stuck around because Kim’s writing is clear, funny, and easy to read. She is a storyteller at heart, and that makes for the best kind of blogging, especially when your topic might be considered kind of boring, like personal finance. (I cannot read a blog that’s written like a text book or journal article.)

And even better, Kim does animal rescue.

Have you ever wanted to be able to sit around all day doing nothing and still have money rolling in? Even if you weren’t born with a trust fund, it is possible to make your money work for you, and not the other way around, though it may require some hard work for you at first.

Over at Creating a Passive Income, Derek and his staff writers are always looking at new ways you could be earning money without doing much of anything, once the initial investment of time and money has been made. This week, they investigated publishing royalties.