tl;dr: An author (and, not an especially good one) is willfully irresponsible in spending her large publishing advance, and blames absolutely everyone except herself.
Blames everyone but herself? The subtitle of this article is ”As a young writer, my naiveté about the publishing process nearly led me to financial ruin. Here’s how to avoid my mistakes.”
Other quotes from the article:
”I’d somehow missed several critical aspects of the business, and that was on me (to some extent)”
”My publisher didn’t tell me I had to get that website. And no one said I should be buying fancy cocktails. That was all my choice”
”Despite making some poor choices”
”Let’s take a pause. What could I have done differently [list of 6 things she could have done differently] But I didn’t do any of those things.”
”All I could think was that I had wasted the one opportunity the universe had given me to write my way out”
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