Comments on: It’s Your Fiction – Do Something With It https://booksquare.com/its-your-fiction-do-something-with-it/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&%23038;utm_campaign=its-your-fiction-do-something-with-it Dissecting the publishing industry with love and skepticism Sat, 21 Jan 2006 20:25:31 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Booksquare https://booksquare.com/its-your-fiction-do-something-with-it/#comment-118119 Sat, 21 Jan 2006 20:25:00 +0000 http://www.booksquare.com/archives/2006/01/10/1734/#comment-118119 It’s impressive that you’re doing so. The more ways you have to get your name out there, the better.

]]> By: Bruce Holland Rogers https://booksquare.com/its-your-fiction-do-something-with-it/#comment-118118 Sat, 21 Jan 2006 19:30:42 +0000 http://www.booksquare.com/archives/2006/01/10/1734/#comment-118118 The monthly amount cited above should be about $250, which is what I make from the short story subscriptions. But the subscriptions aren’t the only way that I make money from my stories. I publish the same stories later in more traditional venues — magazines and anthologies.

I still wouldn’t want to try to live exclusively on my income from short stories. Even with traditional sales, I’m probably averaging about $500 a month from stories. But every little bit helps — the subscriptions, the sales to magazines, sales of my collected works in books, speaking gigs, and teaching.

Short story writers used to be able to make a living just through selling what they wrote, but increasingly short story writers make a living as poets do. Full-time poets teach poetry writing, and at the top of the profession, they are in demand as public speakers. It takes as much creativity to make a living out of short forms as it does to write them!

— Bruce Holland Rogers

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