The struggle to make a living as a writer

Amanda Steel
4 min readFeb 16, 2020

I once read an article about how most authors don’t make enough money to live on from their books and I can believe that. Marketing beyond your immediate friends and family can be expensive and it’s hard to know what will work. (I might write a separate article on the different marketing tactics I’ve tried.) If you want to make a living from your writing, you might have to expand into other types of writing. I’ve…

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Amanda Steel

Author, editor of Printed Words, co-host of Reading in Bed (podcast). copywriter and ghostwriter. https://amandasteelwriter.wordpress.com/