Sentences with phrase «manuscript quitting their day job»

My stomach hurts, though, to think of someone who hasn't even finished a manuscript quitting their day job to join the gold rush.

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Arlene Prunkl quit her day job in January because, after three years of shaping, honing and polishing manuscripts for self - publishing authors in her spare time, she found she had enough business to make a career of it.

In your quest to get your manuscript written, edited, and just done, make sure that you're not rushing so much that you lose sight of the long - term skills needed to be a successful, full - time author — as in, an author who can make enough money from book sales to quit her day job and write for a living.

Beyond that, as I alluded to in the opening, there's sort of been a new expectation / conventional wisdom creeping up that the key to being a Good Hardworking Promoting Author is to blow out your blog, your Facebook page, your website, your Twitter feed, your Goodreads network, and better yet, all of the above and by the way you need to set up your own author tour and try to get some media appearances going we'd love it if you placed some articles and stories and where's your book trailer oh also don't quit your day job and don't forget about your manuscript deadline and make sure the next book is incredible and amazing and could you spend some time with your family please?