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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Willie the Duck" data-source="post: 8701649" data-attributes="member: 6799660"><p>Just to clarify -- I was very aware that, on average, being an author is not a great way to make a living. I just thought it was more similar to actors and musicians -- 99-99.99% of people do not make it big, but the people I can name off the top of my head make far and away more than my work peers and I. I just thought that the Weis and Hickmans of the worlds, while not Mick Jaggers and Meryl Streep's, would have been like maybe Zach Braff and Peter Cetera. Perhaps I'm adding a 0 or two to how many units sold being on the bestseller list implies (since you are right, there are about 5-6 cuts taken out of $5-20 books before they get back to the author).</p></blockquote><p></p>