> But should any of those authors become sick, disabled, or otherwise no longer able to produce, should they end up never making another cent of any of their wo

> But should any of those authors become sick, disabled, or otherwise no longer able to produce, should they end up never making another cent of any of their works? How would they support themselves 5, 10, 15, 20 years? Rick Cook (who wrote the Wizardy Complied series - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Cook_(writer) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Cook_(writer) )... back in 2007 wrote: http://rickcooks.blogspot.com/2007/12/wiz-6-wizard-uncompleted.html http://rickcooks.blogspot.com/2007/12/wiz-6-wizard-uncomplet... > In spring 2000 I was well into Wiz 6: The Wizardry Capitalized when I went into the hospital for emergency heart surgery. The surgery saved my life but a combination of medical problems and the effects of the drugs I take has pretty much ended my fiction career. (Non-fiction I still manage very nicely, thank you.) I've seen this happen to others. Something about the heart medicine prevents some spark of creativity. Its another example of an author who needed to support himself for another 20 years off the royalties from books he wrote a decade before.