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[delurks to emphasize Gillhoughly]
My first advance (for the book in my sig) was four figures.
My book won't hit stores for another 8+ months.
My editor is calling me this weekend to discuss book 2--the contract for which--including a separate advance--is already signed. She's not calling me to get a list of promotion techniques: they have a publicity dept. that is handling that. She's calling me to discuss some of the plot points of book 2--which I'm already writing.
I got an agent through a blind query, and he sold a 3-book deal for a completely unknown author. It happens all the time.
But not with PA. Don't throw your book away. Go for the brass ring!
[relurks]
King's breakout book, Carrie, was published with Doubleday. They gave him a 2,500.00 advance for the HC rights--which is 2,499.00 more than PA offers.
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Rowling had a literary agent who sold the first Potter book to Bloomsbury for a £1500 advance.
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Notice the theme here?
Their books went to real publishing houses and who paid real money for their work.
After signing the contract they were not told by those publishers to "promote-promote-promote" but to "write-write-write."
Yes, we all have to start somewhere.
Just not at Publish America.
My first advance (for the book in my sig) was four figures.
My book won't hit stores for another 8+ months.
My editor is calling me this weekend to discuss book 2--the contract for which--including a separate advance--is already signed. She's not calling me to get a list of promotion techniques: they have a publicity dept. that is handling that. She's calling me to discuss some of the plot points of book 2--which I'm already writing.
I got an agent through a blind query, and he sold a 3-book deal for a completely unknown author. It happens all the time.
But not with PA. Don't throw your book away. Go for the brass ring!
[relurks]