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Originally Posted by Fbone
Authors hoping to support themselves by writing full-time live day-to-day in perpetual fear.
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What? I mean, seriously, what?
I'm pretty sure that not ALL authors hoping to support themselves by writing full time live in constant fear. This doesn't pass the exaggeration sniff test.
Heck, *I'm* hoping that very thing, but I'm not fearful about it. It's a nice hopey dream to send me to sleep at night.
Anyway. Authors who "
hope" to support themselves by writing full-time aren't going to get anywhere fast. Authors who
want to support themselves full time aggressively follow at least two major rules:
1. Publish a large body of work so that an addition of ONE fan means TEN sales.
2. Expand your fan base with good editing, slick covers, responsiveness to complaints/contacts, and with as many freebies-deals-promotions as you can bear in the early expansion days.
If someone wants to be a successful indie author and they're pricing their books at $10 a pop, well, they
should "live in fear", because that's not going to fly.