Monetary Report #6

Financially, it's been a huge week! First, I sold a copy of my novel at a $3.00 profit (not because I insisted, but because my buyer insisted on paying me more than $10.00). In addition, there's a colleague of mine who's using my short story collection, Emergency Stopping, in two sections of her ENG 112 course. I sell copies to her students at a discount, but I still turn a bit of a profit on each book. In any case, she gave me the first installment of student cheques this week, and the profits (yes, the profits!) came to $45.00.

So . . . this week saw me making $48.00 -- more than I made in the first five weeks of the year put together.

This brings my total for the year to . . . $67.83.

That means, a D-list writer like me averages $11.30 a week in profits from writing.

Ooh -- kind of takes the glamour out of things, doesn't it?