At Electric Literature, Lincoln Michel talks about the “taboo” topic of book sales, and offers some advice for writers:
Writers should absolutely write with an eye toward art, not markets. Thinking about sales while creating art rarely produces anything good. But I’m still naïve enough to think that knowledge is always better than ignorance, and that after the book is written, writers should come to publishing with a basic understanding of what is going on.
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