In December last year, R J Ellory posted on the reality of the Fiction Publishing Business and how much most authors earn from their hard work and emotional investment.
http://rjellory.blogspot.com/2007/12/some-surprising-facts-and-figures.html
It is not for the faint-hearted.
For Romance authors some of this data is already familiar through the online communities and sites such as this:
http://www.brendahiatt.com/id2.html
The harsh reallity is that the ability of an author to support themselves through their writing truly does depend on both;
*their productivity [ more titles = more income as their brand becomes established] and
*their ability to stick their heads out, above the 1000s of the other titles published and get noticed. Quality. Content. Visibility. Presence.
In other words, hard work. And then harder work. Day after day.
But you already knew that. Because you are a professional.
