It is difficult to get a nonexistent author to blog or tweet, let alone make author appearances.
My ambition is to get a permanent author portrait-exhibition either in Sweden or in the U.S., where I can donate many portraits so they can be seen by future generations.
Moreover, you can't trade e-books with your neighbor, get an author to sign one for you, read one on a plane that's taking off or landing or donate one to a rummage sale.
"Some people have a negative perception of what it means to get an M.B.A. online," says George Lorenzo, author of The Complete Idiot's Guide To Getting Your M.B.A. Online.
He cranks the books out like some superhuman literary Terminator, often teaming up with a co-author to get an obscene number of words written on a tight deadline.
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"When you look at how much is paid for a mediocre midlist author" in the United States, he said, "and how much you have to pay to get a world-class author who has been translated into 18 languages, it is ridiculous that more people don't invest in buying great literature".
Attending conferences and visiting academics are also a crucial part of the job, both as a sales and marketing opportunity and also editorially, to meet current and potential authors, and to get an invaluable feel for the needs of academics and the current hot topics.
Likewise – they help build the world we live in, most authors are amateurs, partly because the money to be made from writing is so poor, and partly because it's hard to get a job as an author.
