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Heh, I don't know if broken is the right term, but I've seen the 7 figure advance actually used as a marketing ploy ... given out so that there would then be a huge fuss about the author made and they get mentioned everywhere and the book becomes a best seller because everybody wants to see what is so amazing about a book that it's worth 1M dollars. And what's worth it is the fact that ... by giving the author that much, they have pretty much locked in revenue. Publishers can't play this game too often, but I've seen it a few times over the years.
If it's a debut author, I would bet money on that every time (for fiction, obviously celeb memoirs are their own category)
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