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Originally Posted by leebase
But IF he was picked up by a publisher who would advance him enough money that he could quit his job. THEN his readers would have access to his books that wouldn't even exist if he had to support himself with a regular job and could only write occasionally.
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Last I heard the average publisher advance was $5,000, nowhere near enough to quit your job, and you would still need to have a finished book to get that. Even if you wanted to give 90% of your income to a publisher you would be better off testing the market on Amazon first. Publishers only care about what they think they can sell, so if they can see something that already has a few sales and/or positive feedback they would be more lkely to look at that than some random manuscript someone sent them last year.