Thread: Is this a horrible time to be a writer?
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Old 07-04-2010, 06:56 PM   #149
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Originally Posted by NickSpalding View Post
Examples? I'm more than happy to be proved wrong! To my knowledge I can't think of more than one or two authors at most who have gone on to get contracts with agents and had their books published with successful sales - though you might know something I don't.
Well I don't know about successful sales, you just threw that one in, but off the top of my head: David Moody, Scott Sigler, Iain McKinnon, Blake Crouch, David Wellington, James Melzer, Z A Recht, J L Bourne, Max Brooks, David Dunwoody. There's probably more, but those are all ones I am familiar with, some of them from before the publishers came sniffing round.
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