The Perils of Writing in Public

The ‘Publish’ button is not your friend

Paul Neuhaus
The Writing Cooperative
5 min readApr 2, 2024

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Image by the author and Midjourney (AI)

Starting in 2018, I wrote several novels for Amazon’s Kindle platform. To date, I’ve made roughly $3800 in royalties. The dream for most of us is to make a full-time living with our writing and 4K in six years isn’t that. Why wasn’t it more? I have several ideas, but my failures with marketing are beyond the scope of this article. What I’ll…

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I write about writing, culture (pop and otherwise), and wacky stuff like UFOs.