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Originally Posted by MichaelFStewart
LOLs - the average advance for debut genre fiction at a major publishing house is about $5K - there are exceptions, but clearly you have to be in this for the joy of writing and not the money. This aside, a writer writes, an author is also read. So I can understand the hope for distribution too.
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$5k if they're lucky and possibly only half that if the publishing houses adopt the 50/50 approach Random House has with advances (50 up front, 50 on publication).
I think the high-flying life I was talking about is the 'media' image of the famous writer who makes millions on best-sellers and owns various homes, some of them on the French Riviera
