Strange as it may seem, actually there are a few people, probably *at least* a dozen in the world at large, who really *don't* aspire to be writers. Given that all the aspiring writers I know also read, I can't even claim that our justification for existence is to be the market. But still, here we are.

Good luck with your aspirations, in any case.

I was first introduced to the internals of publishing through science fiction fandom -- sitting around the bar / consuite at a convention or even sometimes at panels hearing authors and editors talk about the business side some. That still goes on some -- but since I'm married to an author and have known numerous authors and editors for decades now, I don't go to the intro panels so often, so I may have a mistaken impression of how often they occur these days.