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I worked four years on the book - took pride in my writing, and ALL the time I had the reader in mind. The readers curiosity and interest was my number one goal.
I spend hundreds of hours on research, corrections and editing...... so for my four years of hard and strenuous work....... I would like to get paid.
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I would like to be paid $5 for every post I make here, but that isn't going to happen. It really doesn't matter how much or little you put into it in the end. It is about the book's marketability. Getting a publisher to commit to marketing your book is going to be the hardest hurdle for anyone not self-publishing. I have known people to spend lots of time as you have, and have a publisher, and still net very few copies sold. It is a saturated field and people are not just that into books compared to a generation ago, at least outside the celebrity and sci-fi genres.