If you’re an extremely prolific writer—that is, a modern pulp fiction author—you can get to the end zone, theoretically, via a high volume of publishing instead of a high volume of sales. You control publishing, so you can publish 100 shorts stories in a year and by Year 5 have 500
stories (i.e., 500 ebooks and 500 print books) and easily…
If you’re an extremely prolific writer—that is, a modern pulp fiction author—you can get to the end zone, theoretically, via a high volume of publishing instead of a high volume of sales. You control publishing, so you can publish 100 shorts stories in a year and by Year 5 have 500
stories (i.e., 500 ebooks and 500 print books) and easily sell 20 copies of each per year at $2/a pop royalty. You’d make $40,000 (more if you consider some stories might be “hits” and sell 100 or more copies a year). This is doable and fun if, of course, you love short fiction and want to be a new pulp author.
If you’re an extremely prolific writer—that is, a modern pulp fiction author—you can get to the end zone, theoretically, via a high volume of publishing instead of a high volume of sales. You control publishing, so you can publish 100 shorts stories in a year and by Year 5 have 500
stories (i.e., 500 ebooks and 500 print books) and easily sell 20 copies of each per year at $2/a pop royalty. You’d make $40,000 (more if you consider some stories might be “hits” and sell 100 or more copies a year). This is doable and fun if, of course, you love short fiction and want to be a new pulp author.