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To: ManyMoose who wrote (2027)	10/16/2009 3:52:35 PM
From: SmoothSail	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9624

If it doesn't see a profit, it don't pick it up. So true, so true. It's a wonder that anyone wants to become an author. For a book selling for $20-$25, the writer get about $1.70, the publisher get about $7.00 and booksellers (Amazon, B&N, bookstores) get the rest. It's even worse with digital books. The writer also needs to shift from being a writer to being a salesman and then to a marketing whiz. IF the book sells to a publisher, the next year has to be spent marketing the book, making appearances, book signings, interviews with anyone who will listen to you.

To: ManyMoose who wrote (2027)	10/16/2009 4:30:59 PM
From: dylan murphy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9624

I look at writing as more of a craft. The more one does it the better you get, provided you have talent in the first place. If I want to carve things out of wood I might put the first piece I work on in a box and not look at it for 15 years. When I come back to it at that time and compare it to what I can do now it would probably look primitive. Same way with authors. I think its a field one should start in during their 20's if not sooner. Write and sell as much as you can to anyone you can. You will define your style and have more fun too. Also starting with novels seems to me like running for governor as your first public office. It may sit your sights too high at first. Start more on the local level first. Work your way up. Not saying the first approach can't work. Some just want to write one or two books because they have something to say or have one good local story they want to preserve. That's different than trying to make a living for 40 years.