Jane Austen is still making serious coin.

It has to feel good, as a writer, to know there's a solid chance you'll reach the height of fame and success once you're dead.

Good news for Jane Austen then! An unfinished manuscript from early in her career, titled The Watsons, just sold for $1.6 million at a Sotheby's auction.

So you know all those unfinished haikus you have from high school? They're seriously going to reap in some major cash for your great-great-great-great-great grandchildren. Unless you die childless.

But don't let that get you down. Jane Austen died childless, too. And she's doing okay these days.