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Apr.14.2013 Another Lesson, Book Biz Style Just when you think you have the book biz figured out - from a writer's viewpoint, that is - smug you gets blindsided. This happened to me just a few days ago. I had had a conversation with the publisher of my just-launched book of short stories a month or so earlier concerning what price...	Feb.24.2012 JK Rowling Leaves Harry Potter for $8M Adult Advance I would, too. In fact, I have a number of adult novels. I am willing to undercut JK Rowling by a few (just a few) millions on an advance. Still, I fully admit she earns every farthing. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * JK Rowling and the dangerous leap: Harry Potter author hopes to be just as...
Sep.23.2011 Beware What You Reveal About Yourself AP Julian Assange was reluctant to write his autobiography Assange fails in bid to suppress own memoirs By Jerome Taylor The autobiography of Julian Assange is published today despite attempts by the WikiLeaks founder to suppress it after a bitter row...	Aug.22.2011 Is The Huge Author Advance Returning? One lives in hope. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Big-League Payday Debut novels are big business again. But what are publishers shelling out for? By Boris Kachka (Photo: Beowulf Sheehan) Poor, lucky Henry Skrimshander: The rangy, corn-fed hero of The Art of Fielding, Chad Harbach’s debut novel...
Mar.24.2011 An eAuthor Comes In Out Of The Cold To those keeping score, Ms. Hocking sold a million of her books - by herself - online in the course of a year. Which is work within itself. Now she has just signed a deal with St. Martin's Press for the release of her next four books at a reputed advance of $2,000,000. Those keeping score might...	Mar.21.2011 Author Turns Down $500,000 Advance I, personally, still want a traditional publisher to produce my novel and (hopefully) give me a half million dollar advance. But when someone who is already offered that decides to walk away and self-publish, I take note. This is a knowledgeable and revealing blog by Barry Eisler...
Nov.08.2010 Mid-List Authors And The Fate Which Awaits Them glass half-full Smaller Presses, Bigger Authors As large publishers increase their expectations of midlist sellers, indie presses see an influx By Rachel Deahl The midlist is dying. That sentiment has been a mantra in publishing circles for years as agents, authors, and editors have decried that...	Sep.30.2010 THERE IS STILL $2.5M TO BE MADE FROM A NOVEL (AND - YES - I HAVE FOUR PAGES, TOO) Knopf Buys 4 Great Pages For $2.5 Million EXCLUSIVE: The deals are popping this week, and publishing is not immune. On the basis of a 4-page proposal, Alfred Knopf's Sonny Mehta has paid $2.5 million for The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny, the new novel by Kiran Desai. She's the Booker Prize-...
Aug.02.2010 IT IS POSSIBLE AUTHORS WILL HAVE TO MAKE THEIR WAGE FROM THE ADVANCE Are the days of the full-time novelist numbered? by Robert J. Sawyer I was the only author invited to give a solo talk at this year’s Canadian Book Summit, which had the theme of “Hot New Models” — the implicit assumption being that new technologies and ways of doing business, such as...	Jul.20.2010 IT THRILLS ME WHEN THRILLERS SELL BIG (Since that's what I'm writing) S&S pays six figures for forensic thriller 20.07.10 \| Graeme Neill Simon & Schuster has paid a six figure sum in a pre-empt deal for UK and Commonwealth rights to a forensic thriller from a husband and wife writing team. Fiction editorial director Maxine Hitchcock bought the rights...

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