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Authors in Fitzgerald's time made their money off of short stories. He was apparently making $4,000 per story. http://www.people.vcu.edu/~bmangum/fitzstories.
by jlgray 13y ago
Authors in Fitzgerald's time made their money off of short stories. He was apparently making $4,000 per story.
http://www.people.vcu.edu/~bmangum/fitzstories.html http://www.people.vcu.edu/~bmangum/fitzstories.html
I've also heard that all the 19th century novels were so long because originally they were serialized, and the author was basically paid per chapter.
- ImprovedSilence 13y ago>>I've also heard that all the 19th century novels were so long because originally they were serialized, and the author was basically paid per chapter. That's exactly how A Tale of Two Cities was written.
- commandar 13y agoThat's how Dickens wrote most of his novels, actually.
- abrowne 13y agoDumas’s complete works are over 100,000 pages in part because he was paid by the line. http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2013/may/23/behind-iron-mask-black-count/?pagination=false http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2013/may/23/behind-...