It's a pretty grim situation out there.
I have a fallback plan - swim teaching!
Seriously - with TAFE student numbers falling, book sales for mid-list writers dropping, I - and others - may have to make serious career adjustments. I'm not good in hospitality - and anyway, I'm the wrong age to get good tips. I may as well utilise my teaching skills, spend some time with children (and, possibly, get ideas for stories) and get free gym membership as well!
It's Plan B.
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Thanks for the link, Catty. As someone once wrote in The Australian Author, years ago, 'If you think mid-list sounds okay, remember the next step down is the bargain bin.'
Well, you've really cheered me up, not that on some gut level I didn't know this.
Sorry Jo - but there must be an up-side? I'm already buying self-published e-books in the knitting community. So there will be opportunities, it's just a matter, surely, of finding them?
Oh - and learning a dozen different things to do with lentils!
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