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Old 09-13-2013, 03:49 AM   #163
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Originally Posted by fjtorres View Post
That is why many don't quit the day job even when making (relatively) good money: uncertainty over sales. Unless you have your "thousand true fans" and are prolific enough to have multiple new releases each year there will be peaks and valleys. And being that productive mean full-time writing.

Something of a chicken and egg quandary, no?
Which is the problem a publisher can solve by advances and multi-book contracts. This is one of the intended purposes with a publisher.
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