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ksmithAn interesting post by an agent tailor-made to burst my little soap bubble dreams.
I dream of the quit-the-day-job deal. I am also a tad security-conscious. I once took one of those on-the-job personality tests--the results were a tie between "entrepreneur" and "security", which is about as conflicted a result as you can get.
To be a full-time writer. The books need to keep selling, and you need to keep writing them. For 20, 30, 40 years or more.
I dream of the quit-the-day-job deal. I am also a tad security-conscious. I once took one of those on-the-job personality tests--the results were a tie between "entrepreneur" and "security", which is about as conflicted a result as you can get.
To be a full-time writer. The books need to keep selling, and you need to keep writing them. For 20, 30, 40 years or more.
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Date: 2006-02-09 06:33 am (UTC)I know that mmpbs have taken the hit for years because of consolidation of distribution and the huge changes in sales outlets, but are trades and hcs affected as well?
Are you thinking electronic distribution or growth of small press or moving away from paper novels into other types of storytelling, or what? If distribution is improved, will more people read the books? Or have we maxed out the book-reading public? Do we need to develop other ways to tell stories to attract non-readers?