After walking away from a successful portrait photography business, Stephanie launched her personal brand, The Joy Parade, for which she now is a full time author, speaker, and blogger.
Full-time authors did also see their median royalty income rise 13%, to $12,400, since 2013.
According to the Author's Guild, full-time authors have seen a 30% decline in income from 2009-2015, whicorrespondsnds with the introduction of the Kindle.
Earnings for full-time authors dropped 30% between 2009 and 2014, from $25,000 to $17,500, while the median income of part-time writers fell 38% over the period, from $7,250 to $4,500.
Indeed, one obvious explanation for the alcoholism that pervades the lives of full-time authors is that it's impossible to focus on writing for more than a few hours a day, and, well, you've got to make those other hours pass somehow.
"It introduces discipline and regularity into one's life". Indeed, one obvious explanation for the alcoholism that pervades the lives of full-time authors is that it's impossible to focus on writing for more than a few hours a day, and, well, you've got to make those other hours pass somehow.
Maybe, as more and more books are written, and more and more made available for free, full-time authors will become an endangered species.
Before becoming a full time writer, author/poet Anne Serling was an early childhood teacher with a Bachelor of Arts degree in education from Elmira College.
He became a full-time author in 1961.
But he told the interviewer he had no plans to become a full-time author.
He was a child radio actor and journalist before he was a full-time author.
