Laughing at Myself

"So when are you going to quit the day job?"

I can't blame folks for asking the question … again and again and again.  We've all seen the movies, the writers living in luxurious homes, sharing a limo with their agents on the way to the big booksigning, and so on.  J. K. Rowling has her own castle.  And didn't Stephen King buy Maine a while back?  Dan Brown's GDP is expected to surpass Canada's by 2011.

No matter how many times I explain that most of us are getting four or low five digit advances,