Unpacking the “Day Job”

Learning to view my career as a job…and how writers make money.

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Every now and then I’m asked by someone unfamiliar with the publishing world if I still work a job now that I’ve sold my novel…or if I just, like, write now.

It’s an incredibly sweet sentiment, one I have imagined endlessly, but I have to suppress a cackle. How could a person outside the…