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.