What if the skills that made you a successful writer start to ruin your life?

I used to make most of my money at shows, but after COVID doing them is literally killing me. How can you keep your author business afloat when the skills you relied on start destroying you?

Hi,

I’ve been doing conventions for about ten years. I started in May 2014, so not quite ten years, but I’ve done close to 200 shows during that time, which makes it feel like I’ve been doing them since I was a zygote.

This is peak Russell at conventions. Also, the first time I realized SELL was right there in my name.

I won’t say it was ever “fun”. It h…