More ill-gotten gains
Aug. 1st, 2016 04:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
I have, once again, persuaded Philip Purser-Hallard to pay me cold hard cash to write a story. It's another City of the Saved short story (i.e., another spin off of a spin off of a spin off of Doctor Who) in an anthology entitled Tales of the Civil War which details events after death returns to the denizens of the City of the Saved (where all humans have ended up after their deaths and where, up until this point, they appeared to be immune to physical harm).
This time, it has to be said, the book I purchased for research (a biography of Anne Boleyn) cost more than I was paid. I think I'm currently running about evens on this "professional author" lark.
This time, it has to be said, the book I purchased for research (a biography of Anne Boleyn) cost more than I was paid. I think I'm currently running about evens on this "professional author" lark.
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Date: 2016-08-01 04:47 pm (UTC)Btw, I recently had my first real taste of being a professional author myself (I came close in the past but never actually got paid...) when I got paid to write a pseudonymous piece about my experience of OCD for a website. Quite exciting!
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Date: 2016-08-02 05:51 pm (UTC)I don't think I've ever been paid directly for the vast amount of non-fiction stuff I publish, but of course it's implicit in my job description that I will do it.
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Date: 2016-08-02 05:57 pm (UTC)Lately I've been kicking around the vague idea of trying to put some old blog posts together into a book (self-published or otherwise), but I've never got very far with it.
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Date: 2016-08-09 01:14 pm (UTC)I'm also still trying to find my 'level' in the much wider, more complex and more vibrant Jewish community where I now live, but that's been going on for a year, since my parents and I moved to the area when I was still living with them (we moved as a family last August and then I moved out to a nearby studio flat in June this year). Again, I think that's going to take time, and will partly depend on my mental health and self-confidence.
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Date: 2016-08-02 01:52 pm (UTC)Congrats:)
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