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Subj: HamBoy has experience with sausages - he can do it. Posted: Fri Jan 15, 2016 at 06:28:17 pm EST (Viewed 499 times) | Reply Subj: He's not here as far as I know. You may have to leap on that... grenade. Posted: Thu Jan 14, 2016 at 07:58:11 am EST (Viewed 2 times) | ||||||
Quote: I've had to learn the had way that aithors royalties come from net profits. A book can sell hundreds of copies and still be in net loss. Publishers can deduct various expenses before tallying proceeds, including but not limited to marketing, admin, accounting, tax, free copies distributed, proofing and editing costs, ISBN registration, copyright enforcement, and legal costs. I'm always happy to proof anything for you for free. I really enjoyed reading the drafts to Mumph and TTC. Quote: Most of my publishers (I've had eight) have been pretty good at being fair about these. The others won't be seeing me again. But it does mean for some books where publishers have shelled out up-front for print runs or publicity launches there is sometimes simply no net profit for the author to get 60% of.Mon-Mathra had her/his way with numbers. Surely an evilest of villains! Quote: Generally speaking most of the stuff I get published is either "work for hire" (hey, can you do us a Spider story of 15,000 words") or "licenced first use" ("hey, if you write a Sherlock Holmes story of 15,000 words we'll put it out first but afterwards the copyright stays with you"). That sounds cool. Do you have a preference? Or is the work the same in either case? Quote: The exceptions are the Chillwater Press books like Mumph, TTC, and Vinnie, where I get to write what I want without any brief at all. The whole point of that deal was to have an outlet for stuff I didn't think would get past a conventional editor. Rhiannon edited most of the Chillwater volumes and did a more rigorous and testing job than almost anyone else I've experienced.Yep. I bet this was more enjoyable as well? Quote: Payment is either by fixed fee (or sometimed fee per word), by advance and royalty, or by back-end royalty. Back-end royalties are always at-risk and as I said there are several books I've never had any for (there's often a clause saying they won't bother issuing anything under $200 or something because the admin costs are disproportionate). Always ask for a bit up front - noted. Quote: I have had to go to great lengths to get breakdowns of what amounts I'm sent actually represent, even to know which books they are payments for. Publishers always seem surprised that I would ask such things. When I ask for sales figures and breakdowns of overhead costs they get very evasive. At first I thought this was because of commercial sensitivity or fear that I might challenghe expense items. Now I think its mostly because small press companies just don't keep their records that tightly. I recall you mentioning this previously. It seems so strange to me, but what would I know. Quote: The exception is the publisher who charged a couple of thousand dollars of him attending ComicCon or similar to the marketing costs for a book. Nope.Yikes, what a rotter! I hope you gave him a good serve! Quote: Quote: Have you found the self self-publishing you are doing with the "Watsarverse" series is a better reward, or at the very least, you're able to track it better?Quote: Sales on those books are consistently low, even though I think they have the best production values of any of my works and the stories are quite good too. That's down to three things: Quote: 1. Almost no marketing is done, so they don't penetrate the marketplace. I don't Twitter or Facebook about them, or do "blog tours", or any of the things writers are supposed to do these days to develop their "author platform".You know, social media is a fickle thing, but there is a means to it. I could try to get some hits for you? It may or may not work...but if you permit it I'd be happy to give it a go? One thing I have also seen which has worked is offering a teaser - the first chapter (or book in a series) for free at the Kindle store - or something like that. Get them in. Rope them up. Quote: 2. I don't generally do conventions where I sit behind a stall and sign my books so that people notice me and the works. I've been to a convention once now, and I enjoyed it, but it was very clear to me that doing that stuff is a lifestyle choice.I can only imagine. Quote: 3. The actual purpose of those books (apart from the fun of writing them) is to bulk out my portfolio. I get more offers and better fees because I can point to nine published novels and about thirty-five other credits. I was surprised at the convention I mentioned that I was getting better rates than lots of the creators there (because I thought my rates were pathetic) and that I had one of the largest published bodies of work apart from the top-rank bestselling pros.Makes sense. Thanks for sharing these behind-the-scenes stories. It's interesting to see. | |||||||
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