For a significant portion
of my Romance Writing career,
I tried to play within
the existing publisher-writer system.
The issue was…
that system isn’t set up
to work for entry to mid-list writers.
It wasn’t working for me.
So I went Independent.
I self-published.
I approached the writing
from an entrepreneur
rather than employee
mindset.
And THAT was when
I found success
in the Romance Novel Writing Business.
Hasan Minhaj,
comic
and entrepreneur,
shares
“A lot of people would be like,
“Hey, this system is rigged.
It’s not set up for you
to survive as
a full-time working comedian.”
Early on
I started to look
at the operational costs
from a macro level.
Like, how does this whole system run?
That got me thinking
entrepreneurially.
The biggest thing
that I realized was
that I didn’t want to live and die
by the two-drink minimum
and the limitations
of the comedy circuit.
How could I rise above this thing?
So I started building an email list
and putting on my own shows.”
If the system isn’t working for you,
think outside of it.