becoming a published author?

answers1: No salary. You are self employed. Most authors earn less
than half of what minimum wage would pay from writing, that's why they
have day jobs. <br>
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No benefits. If you want health insurance, you will have to pay for
all of the premium costs or get it paid through your day job. <br>
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Hours worked depends on how much time you are willing to work outside
of your day job. <br>
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Your responsibilities are to yourself until you are under contract
with an agent or publisher (in which case you return editorial
corrections, alleys, contracts, etc. on time if you want to get paid).
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interesting fact - less than 3% of all manuscripts submitted to the
industry in a year will get published.
answers2: What is the range of the " salary " ? <br>
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depends how many books u publish--if you are 'fairly' good at this
art, you get about $10000/book. if you are a full time published
author, you can probably write about 1 to 2 books a year. so about
$10000-$20000 <br>
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What benefits do you have? <br>
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respect from your fans...? you can take breaks whenever you want and
your job is very fun! you are also your own boss and you can never be
fired. you can also quit whenever you want and you can have two jobs
at once---eg, a doctor and a writer/lawyer and writer. <br>
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How many hours does the average author work ( writing ) ? <br>
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depends... if you want to publish a book/ year, write at least an hour
a day. i wrote my first book in 4 months (about 2 hours a day), but it
was very rushed. <br>
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What respondsibilities do you have? <br>
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writing good and non offensive books to prevent people from insulting you. <br>
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any thing interesting facts about becoming an author? <br>
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-it is awesome! <br>
-the inspiration you gain from your fans is just phenomenal