A Writer's Wage

                                       It isn't worth a dime

My earnings from writing this year passed $10. I only managed the figure because of a rush of eBook sales on Apple.

To give you an estimate of the breakdown, that works out to less than nine cents a day, or to use an old US proverb "I ain't worth a plugged nickel."

The adage goes back to the old west when sharpshooters could hit a nickel thrown in the air; once it fell to earth the coin was worthless as it had been damaged.

I would say it is with a sad heart that I stopped writing, but that would be a falsehood, the blog never took off, and sales of my eBooks never amounted to a hill of beans, never mind a cup of coffee to wash "em" down.