Re:An image of an archeologist adventurer who wears a hat an...
by TheOtherHobbes on Thursday April 03, 2025 @06:33PM
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She comes up with new stuff all the time. She's had a separate career as a writer of thrillers, and is still working in the PotterVerse.
She's an awful person for other reasons, but that's beside the point here.
Reality is most trad-pub authors have full-time jobs anyway to pay the bills. If you're not one of a handful of publishing superstars, trad-pub pays incredibly badly as a result of corporate consolidation and monopoly dominance.
To be clear - there are far more people living parasitically off investments, producing nothing at all and extracting value from everyone else, than there are talented creators living the high life.
She's an awful person for other reasons, but that's beside the point here.
Reality is most trad-pub authors have full-time jobs anyway to pay the bills. If you're not one of a handful of publishing superstars, trad-pub pays incredibly badly as a result of corporate consolidation and monopoly dominance.
To be clear - there are far more people living parasitically off investments, producing nothing at all and extracting value from everyone else, than there are talented creators living the high life.