Not to mention: Advances. No not for the big celebrity writers doing memoirs/biographies. Those are already out of the realm of imagination for indies. It’s t

Not to mention: Advances. No not for the big celebrity writers doing memoirs/biographies. Those are already out of the realm of imagination for indies. It’s the advances given to up-and-comers out of the MFAs, and the advances given to professors teaching at said programs. An indie book house will not be able to front 100k to an author for a book in the way the big 4 does (funded in part by the celebrity books they sell).