NPR has been tapping WMRA's Martha Woodroof to provide advice for aspiring novelists. Martha tells about some cases of big money going to newly/never published writers. Martha's column is on the NPR.org "Monkey See" culture blog.
(Martha is a good mentor about such matters since she wrote and wrote for years with little fanfare before her book, Small Blessings, was finally accepted by a major publishing house.)
