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Writers Getting Paid is a site all about the tips, tricks, secrets, and strengths of writers who've figured out how to make a living doing what they love. I interview my friends and colleagues who get paid to write; and I share all of their insights here with you. [More...]
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Books Archive
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When is Taking an eBook Stealing?
Posted on April 9, 2010 | View CommentsThe NY Times ethicist advises a reader that downloading an illegal, pirated version of a book is not unethical as long as you’ve paid for the physical version. People who like reading books are delighted! People who like getting paid for books are pissed! I... -
New Book-Trailer for Prequel (!?!?!) to “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies”
Posted on March 26, 2010 | View CommentsWatch this crazy thing: Entertaining, right? And not only does it create viralility for the book, it also makes it a lot easier to imagine a movie option. I bet this would be a lot harder to do if your book was about, say, the... -
The New Yorker’s John McPhee: Reporting Must Lead to Books
Posted on March 24, 2010 | View CommentsThis is required listening: narrative non-fiction author John McPhee, one of those amazing old-timer-reporters (he started at the New Yorker in 1963) discusses his writing process in a recent podcast. The whole interview is a delight — he talks about, among other things, when he... -
Lit Agent Ted Weinstein: Successful Authors do More Than Just Write
Posted on March 23, 2010 | View CommentsTed Weinstein has some scary things to say about writing. “There’s less pay,” he warned me when I reached him by phone last week to talk about making a living as a writer. “People’s attention is divided. And per-column inches, the revenues are dropping.” The... -
Naughty Comic Book Author Justin Hall Gets All Hands-On
Posted on March 15, 2010 | View CommentsA few years back, I wrote about and interviewed Justin Hall for SFist and for a podcast. His book, Hard to Swallow, was so raunchy and obscene that it made some people awfully uncomfortable. (There followed one particularly awkward conversation when a baffled coworker requested... -
Big Time Literary Agent Ted Weinstein Talks About Forming Your Own Nitty Gritty Literary Committee
Posted on March 14, 2010 | View CommentsLast week I had the pleasure of seeing a talk by Ted Weinstein, literary agent TO THE STARS. The stars in this case are mostly nerds: NPR’s math guy, the 826 Valencia people, a webcomic artist who makes jokes about charts. Ted’s talk was about... -
Writers Getting Paid
Posted on March 12, 2010 | View CommentsOh hey welcome! This is the inaugural post of Writers Getting Paid, a blog about exactly what it sounds like: writers whose financial security affords them luxury of being able to focus on their craft. Getting paid to write is not about getting rich! Oh...