[ SECRET POST #4018 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4018 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Not OP but an author

[(Anonymous)]

DA.

As someone who is finishing edits on a book and planning an agent, I agree. $3,000 might not be a ton, but to me it is totally worth it. If you're good, and lucky, and people like your work after that you'll get more. That's just the first step. Hardly anyone gets paid a ton for their first steps into publishing.

Re: Not OP but an author

[comma_chameleon]

That's what I thought, I mean, I've only sold one novella so it was only available in ebook and I got royalties and I'm pretty sure I've made maaaybe $50 bucks off it?

I feel like everything thinks writing a book with a 'big' publisher means huge money, but unless you're in the right place at the right time with something hugely marketable (ie JK Rowling), it's not true.

Especially not when you're a new author with no/a very small fanbase.

Re: Not OP but an author

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT

Exactly. I'm not sure why people are so hung up on a living wage. Almost no one gets paid a living wage for a first-time book. I went to school and have a full time day job to pay the bills because it's a known fact that you don't quit your day job to write until you're making more writing than you are at your day job.

And that can take years! It's not a job where you can right out of the gate live off of. Just like how being an artist isn't. Or being a jewelry maker. Or a knitter. Or anything like that.

I honestly don't get why people think it would be a job where one book sold = living wage.