How many rejection letters from agents and publishers have you collected so far? Most publishers talk about a 1% acceptance rate, so by the time you are working on your 100th proposal, you are probably nearing success, if math is on your side.
>three-five hundred dollars to get into the 'conference' schmoozing?
I think PUA marketing is brilliant. The questions they start with are commedy gold to me. "Are you a sexually frustrated dude? Do you feel that you lacks the natural confidence and success required to be sexual attractive to attractive women?"
"Do you think your life should be more a porno where hot, tight, clean, semi-slut shows up at your fully-furnished, single-occupancy dwelling you bang that shit like a boss, despite this rarely or ever actually happening?"
"In our 3 day long seminar, we will get you in a room with a bunch of dudes who are fall into a few general categories: the generally unsuccessful, those with long work hours, and the physically and/or socially repulsive. All groups share vaguely misogynistic attitudes, and most importantly, paid us $375 to be in the company of to our experts (lmao)"
"Then, after listening to our one or two ramble on about their own philosophy of living, and attitudes toward approaching and having conversations with actual women, with the intention of getting better at scoring."
"Weekends over, you got nothing else done, good luck in your scoring."
Relatedly, you risk finding yourself in a room co-genger group of the these groups: underemployed because 'muh wratin'', barely able to write due to family and work obligations,
unpublished "aspiring" writers, bottom-feeding bloggers, those with unreadable ebooks ($.99* lol). These groups often overlap.
*Amazon, for example, takes .30%. leaving a potential author with $.69 per copy or 10,000 copies sold to clear $6,900 pre-tax.