"Income"?!? Did we read the same article? The author got a pittance. > ...inked a deal with a publishing house - explicitly that means doing it for the money

"Income"?!? Did we read the same article? The author got a pittance. > ...inked a deal with a publishing house - explicitly that means doing it for the money Reads to me much more like in this case, it rather explicitly means doing it for the purpose of getting her story out, knowingly taking the hit of getting just a pittance for it. > and the result is a whinging about how sour they feel about the whole thing. No, the result is a factual account about how prospective authors should go into this stuff knowingly, not expect anything close to a living income just from being an author, and be prepared to take the hit of getting just a pittance for getting their story out, if that purpose is important to them. You really must have read some other article. > The is ain’t Anne Frank’s diary in the slightest. Yeah, TBH I am also not expecting an immortal masterwork. But, hey, won't we both be surprised as fuck if it turns out to be one? It could happen. :-) (And, hey, it's been many decades since I read Anne Frank’s diary... But as I recall it, purely as a piece of literature that really wasn't an immortal masterwork either. So this might well equal or better that level.)