Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2015 21:03:08 -0400
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Excerpt:
The earnings of more than half of American authors fell below the US
federal poverty level last year, according to a survey from the Authors
Guild.

Analysing responses from 1,674 authors in its first survey since 2009, the
US organisation found that the median income from writing for an American
author in 2014 was $8,000, down 24% from $10,500 six years ago. The
majority (56%) of writers, it said, earned less from all of their
writing-related activities than the $11,670 judged in 2014 to have been
the minimum income needed by a one-person household in the US.

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. Thirty-nine percent of respondents
to the survey said their sole income came from writing.
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<http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/sep/15/income-for-us-authors-falls-below-federal-poverty-line-survey>

         mark "don't quit your day job"