She actually posts her royalty statements and gives a good insight into the tough career that is known
as authordom.
And perhaps, if the predictables and the unpredictables were aligned, we'd accelerate our quests toward
published authordom.
Book tours, autographs, travel, books piled high on bookstore shelves, everyone wanting to know me, Oprah, awards, greatest American novel: these were the dreams shoving me onto the road
of authordom.
It was a time when a small number of gatekeepers acted as the bouncers as the pearly gates of
authordom, denying writers the freedom to publish and deciding what readers could read.