Goodreads asked Chris Stead:

What’s your advice for aspiring writers?

Chris Stead I come from a different school than many writers I suspect. I studied to be a molecular biologist, but ended up falling into journalism simply by writing fan articles that got noticed by a magazine editor. I then climbed the ladder and learnt how to be a journalist and a content marketer and a website builder and a sales rep all these things on the battlefield as the war was being fought.

Eventually I got to a point where I was doing everything - writing, designing, selling, editing, coding - and giving a huge piece of the profits to publishers. So for me, it's all about owning what you do. Everything I do I own - it's slower sourcing artists and doing all the design and code work yourself, but at the end of the day I feel if you are going to be a creator, then you want to get the lion's share of whatever your creation earns.

So my advice would be to take control - learn as much as you can about all the things around writing that take it from a word doc to someone's eyeballs on the other side of the world.

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