What you earn is about what business model you can envision or build for yourself and whether it's sustainable for you over the long term.
Eee-yup. While I realize many of you who write do so for fun, as fanfiction, etc., this is an important read if you’ve flirted with the notion of doing it for pay. It’s also an important read to understand MOST authors do not make that much, even authors of 20+ and 30+ titles. There are a lot of reasons why; this article addresses some of them.
“[W]riting doesn’t pay that well. Not even a minimum wage. So I’m always happy to see the veil lifted. We need more discussion of what writers earn, with specific authors talking about their advances, royalties, sales, expenses, connections that led to earnings and profitable gigs—all of it. In an industry where talking about the money is often taboo or even shameful (few want to admit how little or how much they earn), the more we all open up, then the more we can normalize the practice of talking about art and commerce, and the more people can make the best decisions for their careers.”
