PSA - if you are an author thinking of quitting your day job, please remember that not all books earn out, and that your book can be bumped meaning that you if you are owed money...
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for publication, your payment will also be delayed. And even once your book is published, you turn in your manuscript, etc the money owed to you will take weeks to go through the system, even if you have an agent making a fuss. It's a really hard way to live if you depend on your writerly income for every day use. Much easier to have a PT or FT job and use writing money as 'gravy'.
posted May 15th, 2015 at 1:21pm in
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- this is why people go to kickstarter before they quit their jobs. proof of cocept. 5-15-2015 1:23pm
- oh fuck, there goes my fantasy 5-15-2015 1:23pm
- you live, you learn 5-15-2015 1:24pm
- I think this is pretty standard knowledge. 5-15-2015 1:24pm +2 likes
- No I think people think once you've published a book you are on some kind of gravy train. 5-15-2015 1:26pm
- np: but writers themselves don't think that--your PSA is directed to authors 5-15-2015 1:28pm
- There is a cliched expression: "Don't quit your day job." I don't know what kind of writer you are, but only like 10 percent actually make a living. 5-15-2015 1:28pm
- no one thinks this--most books flop 5-15-2015 1:29pm
- yep. mine did. 5-15-2015 1:32pm
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