He says they help him with hiring negotiations, family relationships, and even his decision to give up a majority stake in his company and
pursue writing full time.
Most successful authors
who write full time and make a living at it — publish several books a year.
She's done so well with it and the follow - up books in the series that she'll be switching to
writing full time soon.
But we know more an more indie authors are earning enough to
write full time vs. very poor income for the «published» authors (in general).
I used to dream
of writing full time and quitting the day job, but with the huge changes in the publishing industry I don't think that is any longer an option.
Once I
started writing full time and became a mom, my smoothies evolved into more kid - friendly concoctions with frozen strawberries or pulverized salad greens.
She now
writes full time from her home in the quiet lakeside resort village of Grand Bend, Ontario, Canada with her husband.
But of course, many writers
write full time while earning less, and if you have to write, or while you're building your career and your backlist, pursue the dream no matter what you earn from it.
Emigrated from Russia, Ksenia reports through her web site that losing her marketing job two years ago was the opportunity of her life; she
began writing full time, something she'd only dreamed of doing to that point.
I was
writing full time when I got pregnant with my youngest child and I foolishly thought I could still write and take care of a newborn.
If your book wound up on the midlist (which by definition most did) then low volume and a small cut of the books total sales price made it financially impossible for authors to
write full time as their sole source of income.
She is a professional member of the Alliance of Independent Authors and
writes full time although she still fits in creative writing workshops with schools along with volunteering to teach reading to a group of young Myanmar refugees.
I'm a big fan of you, Victoria, and Writer Beware, and I look forward to reading this book (and it's inspiring to hear you've made a
living writing full time!).
By Drucilla Shultz in Publisher's Weekly (7/18/16)-- Kealan Patrick Burke won a 2004 Bram Stoker Award for his novella The Turtle Boy, but he still couldn't make
writing his full time job.
I'm no longer practicing — I went back to school as an adult and spent three years getting certified and practiced for about a year then went back to PR and
writing full time again.
I started teaching
legal writing full time in 1993, at a school where I taught 55 — 60 students per semester; taught three sections, one of which met at 7:30 p.m. on Friday night; was rebuked if the students referred to me as «professor»; became subject to a three - year cap adopted by the faculty while I was there; and was paid $ 30,000 (less than half of my prior law firm job's salary) for the privilege.
When I accepted the job at which I currently work, the job that takes me from my dream, I had just done a stint of
writing full time for six months and my earnings from Amazon were finally consistently over $ 500 per month, hardly enough to live on though, but not bad.
Once I
started writing full time and became a mom, my smoothies evolved into more kid - friendly concoctions with frozen strawberries or pulverized salad greens.
Josh West has spent the last decade doing «the writing thing» as a staffer and freelancer for games, music and comic book magazines, and
now writes full time about games as the features editor for GamesTM.
It's hard to believe it has been seven years, but the advice does make a lot more sense to me now that I've been
writing full time as an indie for the last few years.
She is a professional member of the Alliance of Independent Authors and
writes full time although she still fits in creative writing workshops with schools along wi....
Deborah has been writing for thirty plus years, but only after leaving the AG's office to
write full time did her writing career begin in earnest.