Sentences with phrase «dollar advance»

A cash advance is a short - term, small dollar advance that covers unexpected expenses until your next payday.

I love to cite the example of Meredith Wild, an author who self - published her series, built a brand around her imprint, and scored a multimillion dollar advance for five books.

In the part one, the authors pivot off Eisler's announcement that he passed on a half - a-million dollar advance from a big name publisher in favor of self publishing, claiming he made the decision for monetary as well as creative reasons, and was inspired in part by Konrath's move away the world of legacy publishing and his proselytizing to other writers to make the same choice.

Stars align to lift US dollar The US dollar advanced strongly late in the week, particularly against the euro, lifted in part by the ECB's relatively dovish shift toward a less accommodative monetary policy.

That seemed to resonate, but it obscured an agenda Melvoin's backers have spent years and millions of dollars advancing, one that Trump's education secretary Betsy DeVos shares: the school choice marketplace not just as the means, but as the goal.

In other words, this high - dollar advance payment method of audiobook creation was not conducive to the publish - it - and - let - it - fend - for - itself kind of publishing business I was running.

You may get a $ 10,000 dollar advance given in two payments (for example, $ 5,000 upon signing and $ 5,000 upon completion), but you will not see a cent more from your book until it sells enough copies for your percentage of the royalties to surpass $ 10,000.

Nvidia earned a 150 million dollars advance due to the increase in interest for cryptocurrency miners, according to the company's quarterly revenue report.

Maintained, troubleshot, and operated two multi-million dollar advanced electronic weapons systems.

NRT Inc. realized the biggest dollar advance — an increase of $ 30.06 billion.

And that's depending on whether or not Nelly signed a good deal with Universal, because in many cases artists agree to an unfavorable royalty split in return for a multi-million dollar advance, or signs over a regrettably large cut to a manager.

With no intention of saving his soul, Brock took a million dollar advance for a book on Hillary Clinton.

Barry just walked away from a half - million - dollar advance from St. Martin's Press so he can publish his next book himself.

(New throughout, updates prices, market activity and comments; adds second byline and NEW YORK) NEW YORK / LONDON, May 2 (Reuters)- Gold prices hovered near four - month lows on Wednesday as the dollar advanced, and were expected to remain under pressure from a significantly stronger U.S. currency and weak investment demand.

However, it would be unwise and unrealistic with regard to your financial planning to assume you will be that rare, unknown author who garners a multimillion - dollar advance.

We've all heard about authors paid million - dollar advances.

Is a book only respectable IF it earns a million dollar advance, earns best seller status on the New York Times, and is published traditionally?

Writing a book that does not earn a million dollar advance is easier than writing a book that does.

And of those million dollar advances that Dan Brown gets from traditional publishers.

Publishers will only promote on their dime if a book is a monthly or quarterly list leader — i.e., a book by a Big - Name Author for which they have paid a top - dollar advance.

That book sold last week in the US to Spiegel & Grau, a division of Random House, for what is said to be a multi-million dollar advance.

We're # 1 on Publishers Marketplace for Fiction and Nonfiction, in both the number of deals and dollars advanced.