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The Working Writer's Guide: Making a Living as a Published Author and Professional Writer
The Working Writer's Guide examines the professional life of those who have chosen to pursue writing as a career. People often believe that either that all published authors earn millions or that it's impossible to make a living as a writer. It's certainly possible to make a living based on your writing, but a number of different revenue streams are required. In reality, most full-time writers have multiple sources of income. These include book sales, royalties, teaching, workshops, coaching, editing, public speaking, events, websites, social media, and business and technical writing.
110 pages, Paperback
Published April 8, 2015
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About the author
Simon Rose
184 books63 followersI am the author of The Alchemist's Portrait, The Sorcerer's Letterbox, The Clone Conspiracy, The Emerald Curse, The Heretic's Tomb, The Doomsday Mask, The Time Camera, The Sphere of Septimus, Flashback, Future Imperfect, the Flashback series, the Shadowzone series, The Stone of the Seer series, and An Untimely Death. I'm also the author of eight guides for writers, including The Time Traveler's Guide, The Children's Writer's Guide, The Working Writer's Guide, and The Social Media Writer's Guide, more than a hundred non-fiction books, and many articles on a wide range of topics. I offer a number of services for writers, including editing, coaching, mentoring, consulting, and writing workshops, as well as copywriting services for the business community. I also offer a wide variety of presentations, workshops and author in residence programs for schools and libraries, am an instructor for adults with the University of Calgary and offer a variety of online workshops for both children and adults.
www.simon-rose.com
www.simon-rose.com
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October 6, 2016
It’s not easy making a living as a writer. Gone are the days when book royalties alone would constitute a substantial income. Unless you’re one of those writers who can instantly make it to the top as a best seller and keep your books on the best selling list, then you will have to consider supplementing your income either with a day job and/or doing a number of other things loosely related to your writing.
Simon Rose has published quite a few books, mostly for children, both fiction and nonfiction. He has also written numerous articles and several self-help guides to assist the fledgling and the established writer hone their skills as a writer and actually make some money from it. In his book, “The Working Writer’s Guide: Making a Living as a Published Author and Professional Writer”, Simon takes the reader/writer through many possible means of making money and making a career out of writing. There are the obvious suggestions: doing paid speaking engagements in various public venues (including schools if your book is directed to a young audience), and writing articles for paying publications (both print and online). Then he suggests other possible income generating sources: writing content for advertising material for different companies, content editing, proofreading and copy editing the works of other writers as well as documents for various companies. There’s also money to be made giving writing workshops, teaching writing to students of all ages and running summer writing camps for young people.
The bottom line is that there are means to make a writing career feasible even if you never do become a best selling author. But, like Simon says, “You may of course become very successful and not need this advice, but most authors engage in some or all of the activities described above in order to earn a living. Enjoy the journey.” And that’s what’s most important: we as writers must enjoy our writer’s journey.
A great resource for beginning and established writers.
Reviewed for Readers' Favorite.
Simon Rose has published quite a few books, mostly for children, both fiction and nonfiction. He has also written numerous articles and several self-help guides to assist the fledgling and the established writer hone their skills as a writer and actually make some money from it. In his book, “The Working Writer’s Guide: Making a Living as a Published Author and Professional Writer”, Simon takes the reader/writer through many possible means of making money and making a career out of writing. There are the obvious suggestions: doing paid speaking engagements in various public venues (including schools if your book is directed to a young audience), and writing articles for paying publications (both print and online). Then he suggests other possible income generating sources: writing content for advertising material for different companies, content editing, proofreading and copy editing the works of other writers as well as documents for various companies. There’s also money to be made giving writing workshops, teaching writing to students of all ages and running summer writing camps for young people.
The bottom line is that there are means to make a writing career feasible even if you never do become a best selling author. But, like Simon says, “You may of course become very successful and not need this advice, but most authors engage in some or all of the activities described above in order to earn a living. Enjoy the journey.” And that’s what’s most important: we as writers must enjoy our writer’s journey.
A great resource for beginning and established writers.
Reviewed for Readers' Favorite.
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