Stephen Carver, Guinevere Glasfurd, Brian Needham and Jo McMillan respond to Joanne Harris’s article about horribly low pay in the publishing worldRegarding Joanne Harris’s article (Horribly low pay is pushing out my fellow authors – and yes, that really does matter, 7 December), I guess I’m a professional author, though I never really think of myself as one. I’ve published four books (three nonfiction, one novel), ghost-written another, co-edited an anthology of new writing, and I’m under contract for my fifth book. I have a respectable academic publishing history and have even won an award. I don’t have an agent, but I’m currently writing for three mainstream publishers.I don’t think of myself as a professional author as it has never paid the bills. I survive by teaching other people how to write, through freelance mentoring and manuscript appraisal, supplemented by copy-editing and proofreading. I’m part of what you might call “blue-collar literature”. You won’t have heard of people like me, but we keep on banging out text anyway. My writing is what gets done around the day job, at evenings and weekends. The fees from this are pocket money at best. Continue reading... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'
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