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Originally Posted by SteveEisenberg
I don't think anyone would claim that advances are commonly high enough to take away worrying about bills.
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That's certainly how I read this:
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Originally Posted by pwalker8
Basically, an advance allows the author to not worry about the day to day bills and focus on writing.
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Although I may have mis-understood.
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Originally Posted by SteveEisenberg
So, for me as a reader, that day job can be a good thing. However, a lot of non-fiction writing is incompatible with having a continuous day job due to need to spend months traveling to research sites.
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Back in January, I asked:
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Originally Posted by avantman42
This isn't the first time I've seen people say that publishers, and their advances, are necessary for non-fiction. What I haven't seen is much evidence of what sort of advances are paid. Does anyone have any evidence regarding the size of advances for non-fiction? Are they shrinking? Or growing? Or staying steady? Are they large enough to sustain an author while they write their book?
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No-one was able to provide any evidence. The best I'd found was a
2012 article that says "
I saw an article in a trade journal recently that reported that the average advance for a nonfiction book was less than $80,000." I still haven't seen any evidence one way or the other. If you have any, I'd very much like to see it.