Your periodic reminder: first-time tech authors get $5k~$10k advances and 8~15% royalties. Publishers tell them "Don't do it for the money."
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It is, of course, easy to say "Don't do it for the money" when you're structurally guaranteed to be not doing it for 92% of the money.
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There are ways to make a business which supports oneself writing books, as opposed to using them as extraordinarily expensive marketing.
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Virtually all paths to doing so involve self-publishing the book and owning the marketing/sales outcomes yourself.
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Tech publishers claim to handle marketing/sales for authors, a claim which you can test by taking any tech author out for drinks.
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I recommend that if you take a tech author out for drinks that you buy, because that's the social expectation for commiseration.
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i happened to see this tweet RIGHT AFTER opening up a $184.52 royalty check.
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Living large Mr. 1 Percenter! ;)
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