I'm going to use a traditional
midlist novel that will earn out around $ 20,000 total over its entire life.
Not exact matches
My first
novels were definitely lower
midlist, with all the dead - end job mentality that entails.
Some
midlist authors will have over twenty
novels up and selling by this time next year.
But even then, and after another ten years and another ten crime
novels, I was still marooned on the
midlist, with no marketing budget, no publisher - paid - for book tours, no nothing.
Librarian Nancy Pearl announces her list of summer reading titles on NPR, picking six
midlist under - the - radar
novels.
Citing that the five big publishing companies seem to want bestselling
novels only, and now have little interest in even well known
midlist authors.
With
midlist advances plummeting, trad pub novelists need to sell several
novels per year to make that, these days.