#1327 - Q&A: How can an author succeed in this day and age?
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 19 August 2020
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Our caller today has been working on her first novel, and she doesn’t want it to be confined to a drawer forever. She wants to sell it! But she’s also feeling discouraged, because so many books are commercially unsuccessful. What should she consider?
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| 0:23.0 | Welcome to Sideosol School. |
| 0:27.0 | What's up? |
| 0:28.0 | My name is Chris Gillibot. |
| 0:29.0 | So glad you're here. |
| 0:31.0 | Our caller today, one of our listeners, has been working on her first novel, |
| 0:35.0 | and she doesn't want it to be confined to a drawer forever. |
| 0:38.0 | I've got a couple of those myself. |
| 0:40.0 | Now, she wants to sell it, but she's also feeling discouraged because so many books are commercially unsuccessful. |
| 0:47.0 | Okay, she wants to be commercially successful. |
| 0:49.0 | Crazy idea. |
| 0:50.0 | What should she consider? |
| 0:51.0 | Now, this isn't a question near and dear to my heart. |
| 0:54.0 | I love the world of books as an author. |
| 0:56.0 | I would say, I'd be the first to say it's not necessarily the most profitable medium. |
| 1:00.0 | Like, in fact, in some ways, you could probably say that most other mediums have more profit potential, |
| 1:05.0 | but that doesn't mean that every book is destined to be stuck in that drawer, |
| 1:09.0 | or published, but not discovered by anyone, which is another faith that sadly all too many books meet. |
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