From Page to Stage: Inspiration, Tools, and Public Speaking Tips for Writers

* Bowker reports that over one million (1,052,803) books were published in the U.S. in 2009, which is more than triple the number of books published four years earlier (2005) in the U.S. This number has continued to climb over the past nine years.

* An estimated 90 percent of people experience stage fright in some form.

* According to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, more than 131,000 people were officially employed as writers as of 2016; of those, about 1 in 4 worked part time and had to look to work outside of their writing to support their income.