“Novelist” is not a job where lots of people would be expected to be making healthy middle class incomes. An average person is going to be able to read maybe a

“Novelist” is not a job where lots of people would be expected to be making healthy middle class incomes. An average person is going to be able to read maybe a few thousand books in their life and the older books don’t get any worse so there is more competition every year. How many basketball players are earning more than $100,000 a year? Not many, because everyone who likes basketball wants to watch the same few people who are really great at it. The same is true with novels, so unless you have the talent and drive and hustle to get to the top of the game, then you should consider your writing a hobby just like the suburban dad playing basketball with his buddies harbors no thoughts of trying out for the Chicago Bulls.