It's a hard knock life for us
To become a writer means you have a love of words. We're definitely not doing it for the money. Don't get me wrong, there are rich authors out there, but it came from a lot of HARD work. No one does it overnight. If you want to be famous, don't become an author. I watch a lot of movies and anytime the lead character is an author -- I cringe. Take The Best Man , for example, Harper's first book was picked up by Oprah's book club, he was walking around with this sexy preview copy and telling all of his friends about his book. But we never saw this dude write. Never saw him talk to his editor. It all just looked so easy. That's not even close to the world an author lives in. In the real world, he probably would've had to skip the wedding, put his romantic life on hold while hammering out such a great book and unless he had a hell of a day job (especially in the economy) he wouldn't have been able to afford such a great place off the strength of an unp...