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Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2025 11:47:00 +0100
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On Mon, 5 Jan 2025, rbowman wrote:

> On Sun, 5 Jan 2025 13:12:16 +0100, D wrote:
>
>> I spoke with a science fiction author on a mailinglist I'm a member of,
>> and he said, for the love of god, never write a book because you expect
>> to earn money on it. Apparently it is not the royal road to riches.
>
> For every Martin or Clancy there are many starving authors. One of the
> benefits of outlets like Amazon/Kindle is an author can self publish and
> possibly make a few dollars rather than the vanity press model that was a
> dollar sink. From a reader's viewpoint it means I have a selection of
> authors I enjoy that never would have appeared in the conventional
> publishing industry.
>
> Amazon Prime offers a selection of free books every month. I've found a
> few gems but the selections are heavily oriented toward chick lit and not
> very good. I don't know how well the attempted jump start works. I do
> better with the 'because you read...' suggestions.

This is the truth! I once met a man who's wife was a semi-famous author in 
brazil. Apparently, she started self publishing erotic novels on amazon 
and out of all countries on the planet, brazil seemed to like them. So a 
time or two per year, she went on a tour to brazil to sign autographs and 
sell her latest book.