how profitable is genre fiction?

very, if you do it right

not very, if you do it wrong

pretty average if you do it mediocrely

>>9270295
not bad, if you half-ass it

terrible, if you overexert yourself

>>9270295
pretty good if you don't try at all

>>9270295
Recently on Australia's weekly art program (on the ABC) a publisher said the average Australian author makes around 5k per year.

>>9270295

>how profitable is Harry Potter
>how profitable is Lord of the Rings
>how profitable is A Song of Ice and Fire

you tell me

>>9270549
this it sells like candy to the unwashed masses who want to live in other people's imaginations.

>>9270914
I don't like any of those series either but you are a fucking git. Call your mother and apologize for you who are.

>>9270295
I honestly think you could make a living writing fantasy series. Those idiots will read anything.

delightful, if you are clarifying with eels