This was from anonymous person. Accidentally deleted.
------------ It's kind of a double-edged sword for a writer.
I'm one of those writers you'd probably consider "pretty awful" and who originally published on the web. Enough people liked my stuff that a "start up" lesbian pub wanted my book. I made a small amount of money and the company decamped to parts unknown, although my book is still apparently in print if you look on Amazon.com and other sites. There are even audio versions of it available on other websites which I never authorized.
Sometimes I get angry about that.
Then I think about this author event I did where someone told me that she took a cross-country trainride (she was afraid to fly) because she saw I was going to be there. And this other woman who had been in the service and taken that book everywhere she had been stationed. My book has been more places than I will ever see. And I will never forget walking into an academic conference and hearing the speaker ask if anyone had seen me (I was on a different panel later in the conference) because she had cited my book in hers.
That's kinda cool.
And no, I didn't get paid for any of it.
Maybe I'm just stupid. I keep writing anyway. No, I still don't get paid.
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It's kind of a double-edged sword for a writer.
I'm one of those writers you'd probably consider "pretty awful" and who originally published on the web. Enough people liked my stuff that a "start up" lesbian pub wanted my book. I made a small amount of money and the company decamped to parts unknown, although my book is still apparently in print if you look on Amazon.com and other sites. There are even audio versions of it available on other websites which I never authorized.
Sometimes I get angry about that.
Then I think about this author event I did where someone told me that she took a cross-country trainride (she was afraid to fly) because she saw I was going to be there. And this other woman who had been in the service and taken that book everywhere she had been stationed. My book has been more places than I will ever see. And I will never forget walking into an academic conference and hearing the speaker ask if anyone had seen me (I was on a different panel later in the conference) because she had cited my book in hers.
That's kinda cool.
And no, I didn't get paid for any of it.
Maybe I'm just stupid. I keep writing anyway. No, I still don't get paid.