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Title: Scratch
Subtitle: Writers, Money, and the Art of Making a Living
Author: Manjula Martin
Narrator: Sean Crisden, Robin Eller
Format: Unabridged
Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins
Language: English
Release date: 05-09-17
Publisher: Tantor Audio
Ratings: 2.5 of 5 out of 3 votes
Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians

Publisher's Summary:
In the literary world, the debate around writing and commerce often begs us to take sides: either writers should be paid for everything they do or writers should just pay their dues and count themselves lucky to be published. You should never quit your day job, but your ultimate goal should be to quit your day job. It's an endless, confusing, and often controversial conversation that, despite our bare-it-all culture, still remains taboo. In Scratch, Manjula Martin has gathered interviews and essays from established and rising authors to confront the age-old question: how do creative people make money?
As contributors including Jonathan Franzen, Cheryl Strayed, Roxane Gay, Nick Hornby, Susan Orlean, Alexander Chee, Daniel Jose Older, Jennifer Weiner, and Yiyun Li candidly and emotionally discuss money, MFA programs, teaching fellowships, finally getting published, and what success really means to them, Scratch honestly addresses the tensions between writing and money, work and life, literature and commerce. The result is an entertaining and inspiring book that helps listeners and writers understand what it's really like to make art in a world that runs on money - and why it matters.

Members Reviews:
Get paid what you're owed as a writer!
This was an amazing read. As a writer, I found a lit of myself in MANY of the stories told in this book and it definitely helped me put some things into perspective for myself. If you're a writer, aspiring writer, etc I would HIGHLY recommend this book!

Five Stars
Great stuff

Writing For Money: Interviews and Essays From Notable Authors.....
"Scratch: Writers, Money, And The Art Of Making A Living" is authored by Manjula Martin founder of Scratch Magazine (2013-2015), explores the skilled innovation of writing for self support and profit. Included are over 30 essays by successful and highly acclaimed celebrity authors, as well as those who haven't yet reached that status. Regarding those "day jobs " it was Oscar Wilde that said "The best work (writing) is produced by those who do not depend on it for their daily bread."
"I write for pleasure, but publish for money. Vladimir Nabokov (1955) In these essays the writers used many means to write as much as possible, dealing with editors, literary agents, reviews good and bad, all forms of commerce--whether blogging, tweeting about books liked or disliked, talking about books at dinner parties, book events. These connections are necessary for a serious writer that wishes to publish. Many writers work under extreme stress anxiety and their writing doesn't always bring much satisfaction and can be somewhat disappointing. There are living expenses to be paid, student loans are due, and building a career in writing eats up every spare minute the writer has. According to Leslie Jamison talking about money forces the acknowledgement of aspects of the creative process that makes people uncomfortable. Writers are not only producers but produced.
Like it or not, money is present in the creative arts: an independent book vendor sells his books on the street, Zora Neale Hurston's death in a welfare hospital, Jean Rhys impoverished obscurity and alcoholism, Nellie Bly going undercover in a mental asylum with hopes of a staff writing position at the New York World.