The business of writing

“People don’t publish books to make money.” Those were some of the first words the instructor said in my very first Publishing 101 course at Ryerson University. We’ve all seen some miraculous authors hurdle over the roadblocks of the book business and make their fortunes. JK Rowling just might be the literary world’s equivalent to The Beatles and I’m sure Stephen King isn’t worrying too much about his retirement income. But out of the 500,000 titles published in English every year, not many of those are true bestsellers.

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