[ SECRET POST #4018 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4018 ⌋

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Comments

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.