Now that most of us have read Harry Potter, let's go back to our own bestsellers-in-progress ( Read more... )

::Pushes Tumbleweeds off the screen::

Okay - let's be honest, Aspiring Authors: how do you see your career in professional writing turning out? Is it going to be part-time work, modest earnings and minimal fame, or are you expecting to be a bestseller with JKR/Stephan King bank?

I just want to see where people see their talent taking them.

Name: Salome
Age: *cringes* 13 (I'm 14 in November though)
Aspiring to Be: Author
Who influenced you: JKR, Mark Haddon, Meg Rossof, quite a few fanfiction writers, Philip Pullman, Eoin Colfer, Mary Hoffman and I suppose in a roundabout way, George Orwell. That's to name but a few of course :)
Working on: A story currently titled 'The Problems With ( Read more... )