The value of my time

The value of my time

What is the value of my time? If I was working in retail, I might perhaps earn £8.50 an hour, though it’s quite a while since I did, so I may have my rates wrong. If I were a typist in an office, a bit more, if I were a junior partner in a legal firm, a bit more still. As an author? Pause for embarrassed silence.

But why? We spend years investing in our books, to say nothing of the cost of producing a product which has all its dots and commas in the right place. That tim...