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my mom belonged to 2 writers groups until last year. over the years, most of the people in her groups were published, and usually by larger publishers. i sure never noticed any support or marketing of any of their books. usually the publishers would dump some paperbacks into a chain and that was it. one of the writers, who published a number of romances and her publisher even requested that she write more, had that publisher pay for economy class air fare and hotel to tour her book, and once she got a standee put in a few walmarts. you wouldn't believe how little money she made, and considering she wasn't paid to tour, it's amazing that she made such a small percentage of each book.
as far as any other attempt at marketing by the publishers, neither the lady i just talked about nor the other published writers saw any of that except that their books were available for sale. most of the marketing they did themselves, and not amazingly they didn't see that many copies sold. if they hadn't loved writing, they could have made more money hourly being paid by the piece to stuff envelopes in their homes.
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