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Originally Posted by Quoth
Most full time authors are on welfare as people on Zero Hours / Minimum wage make more. Only a small fraction of authors published by big publishers make enough to live on.
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Even an author like Piers Anthony had to keep his day job (I think as a teacher) well into his career and long after he had a "household name" in the SF genre. It kind of floored me when I first read that.
Looks like I'm misremembering. Apparently Piers Anthony quit his day job in 1966 and about 10 years later he published his first "big hit," the first Xanth novel,
A Spell for Chameleon. Should have fact checked first... I must be confusing him with someone else.
https://www.famousauthors.org/piers-anthony