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Originally Posted by DaringNovelist
Writers have always survived by delusion.
Camille
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There's a lot of truth to that, and in much of the rest of your post. However, on this one I'd have to disagree somewhat...
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for midlist genre writers, this is a good time to be a writer and getting better.
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For midlist genre writers, this is a really challenging time to be a writer. It has grown significantly harder in the last 10 years to make any decent money with traditional publishers, and in the last 5 years, it's gotten harder even to get a book out in paperback, much less distributed properly. Ebooks are not yet bringing in very much money, on the whole. I know a lot of people who have gone back to their day jobs, or stopped writing fiction altogether.
On the other hand, the new models of publishing may change everything. But most people I know are struggling to find the best way to adapt to the changes. I'm very glad I now have most of my backlist out in ebook form.