Hi, everyone. I've been writing science fiction seriously since 2003. I sold my first two novels in 2007, and my third in 2008 (Sunrise Destiny, published in 2009). Sadly, the publisher of my first two novels went bankrupt in 2008. So I have only one novel currently available (along with an anthology and some short story ebooks), plus a couple of others as yet unsold.
Royalties trickle in, so I still work a full-time job as a technical writer (which, fortunately, pays well). I'm not well-known enough for piracy of my books to be a serious problem, but even a few pirated copies would take a chunk out of my royalties (which is the only money most authors get for months or years of hard work).
I aspire to live off the royalties from my fiction writing, but that won't happen if piracy becomes a problem for me, as it has for others.
Royalties trickle in, so I still work a full-time job as a technical writer (which, fortunately, pays well). I'm not well-known enough for piracy of my books to be a serious problem, but even a few pirated copies would take a chunk out of my royalties (which is the only money most authors get for months or years of hard work).
I aspire to live off the royalties from my fiction writing, but that won't happen if piracy becomes a problem for me, as it has for others.