Post by account_disabled on Dec 2, 2023 22:49:31 GMT -6
But editing doesn't mean distorting your text, just improving it. Perhaps. Publisher's rejections : I tried to send my manuscript to various publishers – no novel, but an essay – and it was rejected. Oh god, actually almost all of them didn't respond and one first agreed to publish it and then said it wasn't good. But I'm still alive and will continue to send out manuscripts. I sent a couple of ideas to another publisher – he was asking for ideas, meanwhile – and he rejected them. Patience, I'll try again.
There is not just one publisher and there is not just one manuscript to submit. Can writing fiction become a job? This is why I want to ask you: is it possible to transform this overwhelming passion into a "real" job? MZ I have many ideas in mind, many things to think about but in the end it all boils down to one problem, will I make it? MC Good questions, which I certainly can't answer, because I don't live by fiction, on the contrary. I feel like saying that we cannot take American and English writers as examples, firstly because abroad they read more than us and English is read all over the world, unlike Italian, then because Italian publishing works in another way, at least as far as earnings are concerned.
Just do the math. How do you manage to live today? With 1000 euros a month? They are few, but let's keep low. If your book costs 16 euros and you take 5% for each copy sold, you earn 80 cents per copy. To Phone Number Datareach 1000 euros you have to sell over 1,250 fixed copies per month. If you are a complete stranger, can you sell that much? No. It is also true that the more books you publish, the more chance you have of earning. If you have two, to get to 1000 euros per month you have to sell "only" 625 fixed copies per month. To live off a single book, that book must sell at least 20,000 copies in a year.
There is not just one publisher and there is not just one manuscript to submit. Can writing fiction become a job? This is why I want to ask you: is it possible to transform this overwhelming passion into a "real" job? MZ I have many ideas in mind, many things to think about but in the end it all boils down to one problem, will I make it? MC Good questions, which I certainly can't answer, because I don't live by fiction, on the contrary. I feel like saying that we cannot take American and English writers as examples, firstly because abroad they read more than us and English is read all over the world, unlike Italian, then because Italian publishing works in another way, at least as far as earnings are concerned.
Just do the math. How do you manage to live today? With 1000 euros a month? They are few, but let's keep low. If your book costs 16 euros and you take 5% for each copy sold, you earn 80 cents per copy. To Phone Number Datareach 1000 euros you have to sell over 1,250 fixed copies per month. If you are a complete stranger, can you sell that much? No. It is also true that the more books you publish, the more chance you have of earning. If you have two, to get to 1000 euros per month you have to sell "only" 625 fixed copies per month. To live off a single book, that book must sell at least 20,000 copies in a year.