It's Hard out there for a Mid-List Author

It's even harder when you're stupid.

Louise Candlish laments:

Candlish planned to stop after two novels received scant backing from her publisher. “Meanwhile, debuts were getting these huge budgets, posters everywhere for books I thought were no better than my own, and I thought, well, this is ridiculous,” she says.

She's getting maybe 35% from that publisher, btw, who she admits gives her 'scant backing'. All those big books that got all the publisher support, by which she means JK Rowling we suspect, were no better than hers, Candlish needs us to understand.

We don't get support from a big publisher either. The difference is we keep 70 % of my royalties. Despite not selling anywhere near Candlish's 200,000 copies, we've almost certainly made more money than she.

Or at least we're not complaining about our financial situation to The Guardian.