{"id":2270,"date":"2005-09-19T08:44:10","date_gmt":"2005-09-19T08:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2005\/09\/my-brilliant-career.html"},"modified":"2005-09-19T08:44:10","modified_gmt":"2005-09-19T08:44:10","slug":"my-brilliant-career","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2005\/09\/my-brilliant-career.html","title":{"rendered":"My brilliant career"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some of you are under the delusion that I&#8217;m really famous and well-paid. Well, I&#8217;m neither. Who cares, right, but my point is that while I&#8217;m glad my work impacts the people it does, the field is still wide open. For example, to satisfy the curiosity of some (who sometimes post snide comments about my &quot;lucrative&quot; book writing career) I might pull in about $14,000 on book royalties this year &#8211; total. Sounds great? That&#8217;s on <strong>12 books in print<\/strong>. Do the math. Second point &#8211; and this is what actually inspired this post. Someone encountered a diocesan director of youth ministry over the weekend. The fellow had never heard of me, never heard of any of my books &#8211; not the Prove Its, not Here.Now, all of which were specifically written for his constituents. Evidently the crack marketing powers of Catholic publishing have struck again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some of you are under the delusion that I&#8217;m really famous and well-paid. Well, I&#8217;m neither. Who cares, right, but my point is that while I&#8217;m glad my work impacts the people it does, the field is still wide open. 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