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Originally Posted by Hellmark
The anticipated amount and type of content. Certain types of material, even in fiction, require more time. Which is quicker to write, the 50 page book for first graders, or the 1500 page historical novel?
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OK, so you mean from the point of view of the writer, not from the point of view of the publisher. She did say on the blog that it took 5 years to finish, which means that it's done now. I don't know if it was finished at the moment of signing the contract, but if she finished just before the blog post, she would have been over 3 years into the writing.
I'm also confused about the sum of money that she got. Her books from Random House are trade paperback and sell for $15. The hardback of her new book would be $30. She gets 25% per book, meaning $7.5, which means that the publisher would expect her to sell only 2500 books. That isn't much.