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I am not sure how this is true. Look at past serial writers and they all seem to be making a better living then $25,000 a year. Stephen King, John Grisham, De
by joshfinnie 17y ago
I am not sure how this is true. Look at past serial writers and they all seem to be making a better living then $25,000 a year. Stephen King, John Grisham, Dean Koontz, Harry Potter lady, they all have done very well for themselves.
Even making only $25000 on one book a year, if you have written 5-10 books the past 5 to 10 years, you have to be making money off those books as well... Especially if her advance is $50,000 a book!
I have to agree that I have no real sympathy for this.
- barry-cotter 17y ago"I am not sure how this is true. Look at past serial writers and they all seem to be making a better living then $25,000 a year." Serial writing is practically dead. Short story rates have stayed constant in nominal terms for decades, soinflation has eaten them. "Stephen King, John Grisham, Dean Koontz, Harry Potter lady, they all have done very well for themselves." Those authors combined are less than 0.0001% of the professionally published novel writing population but I would be surprised if they took less than 5% of all US author royalty dollars. Very, very skewed distribution.