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Originally Posted by cjcherryh
It is a serious question, because a writer has to live for a year after finishing a book before revenue starts. If pay is instant, and larger, this might be enough, but if it is slow coming, and in small checks, a writer could lose the house waiting for funds.
As an example, a writer gets 20,000 on signing. Has to write the book. This takes the better part of a year. Gets another 20,000 on pub. But this takes the better part of the next year...you're working for 20,000 a year, and have to pedal hard to keep up.
But e-book publishers are small and can't float the massive bank loans that let a NYC publisher front that kind of money. So a writer languishes, hoping for a total of 1000.00 next month to meet the mortgage, not to mention groceries...and it may or may not come...or come on time.
Or if the small publisher folds, and rights are tangled, it gets even scarier.
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Sounds like the writer in question should have a day-job, since their writing in and of itself does not properly support their present standard of living.
- Ahi