I write full-time and make a good living at it. In fact, I make more money writing than I ever made at any of my previous jobs (and they were good...
7000 words is not even 30 typed pages. That doesn't qualify as a book under any circumstances. However, you can always self-publish as an ebook...
Well, you'll have to do a lot of editing, rewriting, more editing... But just because it's your first novel it doesn't mean you have to put it...
Yes, there are TONS of people making good money with ebooks. Did I say everybody? No, I didn't. A lot of people are making nothing or very little....
There are tons of people making good money with ebooks. So yeah, it's possible. I'm still not entirely sure why you're combining poetry and short...
Ok, let me rephrase -- Once the OP becomes as famous as Asimov, he can go ahead and try to sell this to a publisher. Until then... just no.
Even if you skip agents and go directly to publishers, you still need a query letter. The best thing you can do is start learning about how to...
Have you researched Idea #2? It doesn't sound historically plausible and I think you got some of the details wrong. In any case, like others have...
7000 words is too short, but you also have another problem: Combining poems and short stories into a single book is not going to work. If you want...
Separate names with a comma.