An interesting post on JA Konrath’s blog about the number of writer’s he knew as he struck his first book and started doing the marketing thing - and how few of them are left nowadays.
He poses a broad question and doesn’t pretend to know the answer - although I am sure that many of his fellow writers have not been published for many reasons - the main reason, I would hazzard-a-guess, would be that the publishers failed to reach their monetary target. It’s a business, first and foremost. And if a book doesn’t sell well enough - then the second or third book by the author won’t get commissioned.
It’s a sad story - and one all too common throughout the internet.
But do the writers stop writing? I doubt it. Though I am sure they would write with greater conviction if they were able to earn directly from their fiction. An experiment I’m trying at the moment is the trialpay method. Give something away for free - and the reader signs up for a trial of another online ’something’. Not that I have spent too much time on the trialpay. I’m busy getting prepped for a marketing launch on the local scene.
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