If you got your book published...

[Halley]

...and that book was just as famous as Twilight or Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, what would you do with the profits? Build a mansion? Save it for college? Get tickets to the World Series? Buy and iPad? All of the above? It's up to you!

[Sydney]

Wow,ive never really thought about it....
But i would say i would donate alot of it to my church,and charities,but also for college. possibly buy me some sort of Apple product =D

[[deleted user]]

Hey guys here is a poem i wrote comparing a rich woman and a poor woman.
Title
Richer than you

As I go shopping,
You will be mopping for money,
As I were diamonds,
You will be sharing your bread,
As I will be greaty with my caviar,
I wil rest in my manshion,
As you will ache on the cement sidewalks of downtown,
I am better than you in so many ways,
And those are some ways to prove it!

[Iviana (The Sign Painter)]

There's a program that I recently found out about (Alliance for Young Artists and Writers) where you can submit a work of one of the many genres of writing to get judged. There is a grand prize, which I believe is a scholarship, however, you can always check the website and correct me if I'm wrong.

[Halley]

Thanks!! I am glad that you showed me this. I'll check it out ASAP!

[Iviana (The Sign Painter)]

The due date was a few days ago, but they do it every year. :D

[Halley]

I'll try next year. Oooh! So excited!

[Iviana (The Sign Painter)]

;D

[[deleted user]]

hmmm....
First if I got published, I would make sure to get a copy of it and run around the mall yelling I got published! :D
But seriously, I'd probably buy a house, marry my fiance, put the rest away for the future, my kids college, and give some to the church and our local animal shelter. I'm not big on the money, though it would totally be the ticket to getting my and my fiance married, and living on our own! But I would just be glad that someone actually liked my book!

So I'd run around telling everyone I passed! :D
I'd probably buy a mustang convertible...If I must admit it...lol.

[Tiffany]

If I got published I would have to agree with Neisa and that I would probably jump around screaming that I got published. I would be so excited. Then if it got to be as big as the twilight and HP series and made the money they do. I'd save for my sons college and buy me a house, then if writing isn't what I solely did then I'd start a business.

[Tony]

Getting now days is not as hard as it use to be. Now you can always self-publish your stories. There are a number of mainstream authors (Kristine Kathryn Rusch and Dean Wesley Smith are two such authors) who are saying new authors should forget about going with mainstream publishing houses and go the self publish router.

If you go back in history and look at some of the early authors, they would kind of now come under the 'self-published' title. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle for example had his stories first published in the local newspaper.

The other sad truth, is most writers do not make enough money to live on. JK Rowling is one of the few lucky authors who can spend all of her time on writing and not have to worry about working for a living.

But getting back to being published, if you have a story and it is ready to be published I'm willing to work with you to published it.