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Being a writer is a peculiar occupation in lots of ways. It falls somewhere between

job, pastime, hobby and vocation, and might be one several or none of those things at the

same time. Even within the subset of those who write to earn their living, there are plenty

of further divisions. Today you might be a writer of video games, books, scripts, articles,

podcasts, comics, social media posts, or some combination thereof. Even though none

of this work is much like any of the rest, everyone who does it is a writer.

It's a strange job too, because although there is certainly the potential to achieve a

great deal of success and wealth doing it, almost everybody doing it does not become

rich and famous. In fact, a report that came out at the end of 2022 revealed that professional

authors in the UK are earning a median of £7,000 a year. For comparison, the current annual

living wage is around £21,000. This is nothing new. For centuries, writers have taken other

jobs in order to support the writing that they want to do, but which does not pay them

enough to live. And the writers who I talk about on this podcast were no different. Although

the golden age of detective fiction that got going after the First World War was lucrative

for some, even in that era of high demand for crime stories, it was a tough realm to break

into as a newcomer. Today we're following the advertising adventures of Dorothy L. Sayers.

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