Book Talk: To Monetize or Not to Monetize (Part II) —struggles of a penniless writer who once knew a penniless sitar player by Jaye Viner
Two weeks ago I shared with you the beginnings of my deep plunge into web serialization and my decision to post a chapter a week of my fiction trilogy on various social media sites around the web, draw attention to them through other social media sites, and hope to find enough people who love my work that they’ll love me forever , which is what we ultimately want as writers, right? The love of enough people to allow us to eat and keep writing. Making money with fiction writing on the world wide web is two parts high stakes gambling and one part a long minimum wage slog working at McDonald’s. The gamble being it is possible to be noticed but the chances of having that winning formula that catapults your work into publishing industry fame and commendation are slim to none and in the process you could lose money through book editing, cover art design, and advertising , all of which you will need if you want to go through Amazon, or Smashwords, or Barnes and Noble and publish your ...