Hard times for authors
Hello, here we go again with another week in the book world. It seems that it isn’t getting any easier for first-time novelists to win a publishing deal, according to yesterday’s Observer newspaper in the UK. The article explains how a two-book deal might yield rarely above £12,000.
March 26th, 2007 at 12:58 pm
in the US the average writer is lucky if the make $5 - $500 per month on a single story… only a rare few like say Stephen King, see any real steady income from their writing and in most cases it’s from movie rights not book sales… sad really, but what it says in the article you posted is true, writers can not provide for their family on writing alone, except in very rare occasions.
~~EK
March 26th, 2007 at 1:22 pm
I guess the moral for budding authors is ‘don’t give up the day job’ even when a publishing deal comes along.
Richard
March 27th, 2007 at 2:40 am
Quite agree. You gotta keep writing or you lose your sanity, but finding the time between day-jobs and other commitments is never easy. Why is it that there are so many obstacles between the greatest novel ever written and recognition of that fact? :)