How I Make Money Writing
Hao Nguyen, Justin Glawe, Emma Sloley, Rhian Sasseen, AJ AyersHonest conversations with working writers about how they make money.
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Interview #252: How Paola Ferrante Makes Money Writing
In this interview, Paola advocates for a stable day job, arguing that the anxiety of relying on grants and advances to pay her bills would destroy her creative drive.
Paola Ferrante is a writer and educator whose work seamlessly navigates...
Interview #251: How Michael Vadney Makes Money Writing
In this interview Michael breaks down the reality of reader attrition and why the first book in a franchise is almost always the strongest performer.
Michael Vadney is a software engineer and self-published fantasy author who recently rele...
Interview #250: How Sophie Vershbow Makes Money Writing
In this interview, Sophie explains why she left the book publishing industry to work in tech so she could afford to keep writing.
Until April, Sophie Vershbow spent her days running social media for Eventbrite and her nights writing for ou...
Interview #249: How Joanna Demkiewicz Makes Money Writing
In this interview, Joanna discusses the reality of winning a major PEN short story prize without relying on writing for income.
Joanna Demkiewicz is a fiction writer, certified massage therapist, and the co-founder of the now-retired indep...
Interview #248: How Elisabeth Sherman Makes Money Writing
In this interview, Elisabeth reveals how living with her in-laws provided the financial lifeline needed to raise a toddler without leaving the media industry.
Elisabeth Sherman is an Associate Editor at Parents.com who spent a full decade...
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I talk to writers about how they make money.
Author + journalist at Zeteo, Guardian, etc. Subscribe to American Doom to support my work and order my award-winning dark American memoir: https://tinyurl.com/mtas2dca
Writer and author of the novels The Islands of Last Things and Disaster's Children
Writer. Words at The Atlantic, BOMB, The Baffler, Granta, The Nation, The Paris Review, and more.
AJ Ayers, CFP®, is Co-Founder and CEO of Brooklyn Fi, a financial planning, tax, and investment firm. Her book Creative Money: New Financial Rules for Artists, Innovators, and Misfits is out November 10 from Penguin Random House.
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