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How I made a living as a writer: 2024-25 edition

The one with the pie chart

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Katie Hale
Apr 08, 2025
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Here she is! The big annual post with the graphs! The one where I break down how I make a living as a writer, and where my income has come from over the past year.

I started doing this back in 2019, after my first novel came out. Partly because it was useful to me to be able to see which aspects of my working life were (and weren’t) making me money, and …

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