Leveling Up as a Midlist Author
[Technical note: Jane is only heard, not seen, in this video due to a little technical glitch! Author Beth McMullen can be heard AND seen.]
Author Beth McMullen recently published her tenth book with Simon & Schuster. Her advances earn out, but she is not earning a living. She has a spouse who earns more and keeps the ship afloat.
A semi part-time gig writing novels worked well when her kids were little and she was the primary caregiver, but now the kids are older, time isn't as compressed and she's wondering if there is a professional career to be had in writing books. Is writing fiction a decent side hustle but nothing more?
Jane and Beth discuss how it might be possible for her to level up and earn more from her fiction-writing career.