My last post in this series is about a lot more than just editing. You see, publishing is not a business with wide and generous margins. Certainly authors can’t expect to earn a tremendous amount of money directly from publishing. But even the biggest wigs in publishing aren’t running around making the Fortune 400 lists.

Now that so much good content is published online for free, these margins are only going to get narrower.

But those of us called to publish and write and edit still have to put food on the table. How does that work? Here’s the last question: 

4. Is it, do you suppose, financially feasible for a single person to live in the suburbs of a major city, with only an entry-level publishing job and very part-time work in the food industry?

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