The greatest area of growth in the writing profession is among the group that used to be scurrilously called ‘hobby writers’.
A recent study of British authors reveals that fifty-nine per cent will write only one book in their writing careers.
Using this figure and extrapolating from the 3500 applicants for Public Lending Right here, there are at least 2100, maybe 3000, people in Australia who have written one book and either have run out of the spirit to write another, or maybe have encountered such frustrations with contracts, editors, and distributors that it is not worth it to write another.
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