A great post. Maths has never been my strong point, however the article contains some interesting statistics regarding how authors can best promote their work. My brain felt rather like mush having analysed all those stats but useful none the less!
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My degree is in Political Science with an emphasis on Political Economy. To earn this degree, I had to study a lot of statistics *UGH* and to be blunt? I agree with Mark Twain, “There are lies, damn lies and statistics.” Surveys and statistics are a science: number of participants, number of questions, phrasing of the questions, nature of the sample group, geography, etc.
Yada, yada, yada.
But somewhere in the numbers is some truth, which is why I asked one of our WANA instructors, Jami Gold, to do this guest post for me (and yes, she will be presenting at WANACon).
Sure we love to write, but I assume all of us are asking the BIG questions: Is there MONEY in writing? How do we make a GOOD living as writers? Money seems to be the taboo and we don’t want…
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LOL! Imagine how my brain felt after writing about all those statistics. 🙂 Thanks for sharing my guest post!