Sentences with phrase «to earn out one's advance»

Quick question, did you actually mean, «1 book in 5 doesn't earn back its advance» Or did you mean 4 books in 5 don't earn out its advance.

A lot of books never earn out their advance.

It doesn't seem to matter that the previous books earned out their advances or that the fans are asking the author for the next book.

Second, you have to take into account that you can earn out your advance on your traditionally published books, too.

That and their authors actually earning out their advances, which is a big selling point for me if I ever do traditional publishing.

And that's if you even earn out your advance.

The author would earn out her advance very quickly, right?

The statistics tell us that the vast majority of traditionally published books never earn out their advances.

I may or may not ever earn out those advances...

In spite of the grumbling among Amazon reader reviews and on other sites, the author will probably earn out her advance and receive royalties she and her husband can spend in their, um, «retirement.»

But once we sold book 8001, I officially earned out the advance and began receiving royalties.

And, in fact, if you're offered $ 3,500 for a book, you will earn out your advance over the course of your publishing career unless your book was incompetently produced and priced.

When I learned that Laura earned out her advance in less than a year, I knew I wanted to share how she did it.

This raises the question: What percentages of books acquired by an advance have sold in significant numbers to earn out the advance???

They know how to do all this stuff, how to make sure you don't give away your subsidiary rights (that is, the film and TV rights, audio book rights, translation rights, graphic novel rights etc., etc.), how to protect you from selling a series of books that are joint accounted (that is, that all the books you sold have to earn out their advance before you get any royalties.

Sales were so disappointing, (This while the first book in the trilogy earned out its advance in three months.)

In this article, she discusses earning out the advance for her book The Trouble with Time (Time Rats Book 1).

However if the book has not earned out the advance within a certain period of time, which could be six months or less, then the publisher will consider it a failure and may not offer another contract to the author.

Of course, if Barry did earn out his advance at SMP, the blue legacy line would have gone up instead of staying static.

Six months later, when her first statement came in, Viehl found that the book's continuing sales had not yet earned out her advance, and so she received no royalty income at all.

Which is why the vast majority of traditionally published books never earn out their advance: which means, publishers pay you once for your book, lose money, and never sign you again... but probably keep your rights anyway so you can't do anything else with the book.

Keep in mind, if you earn that much money and keep earning on a single title, you are doing better than a lot of traditionally published authors who don't ever earn out their advances.

The cons include: three to five years from acceptance by an agent to seeing your book in print, no marketing assistance if you're a first - time author (or minimal assistance until your book earns out its advance, then no more), publisher takes most of your rights, including repurposing.

Add to that the creative bookkeeping these same publishers use to justify a title not earning out its advance and, well, as far as I'm concerned this is no longer such an attractive alternative (For more on the royalty situation, check out Kris Rusch's post which you can find here)

While they were paid an initial advance to sign that contract, studio costs, marketing expenses, touring expenses, etc. also went into the expense column along with that advance... and since many artists signed royalty agreements that paid them pennies per album sold, some never managed to earn out their advance — even if they sold millions of albums.

You don't get the advance all at one time and you aren't going to see any more money from the publisher until you have earned out the advance and, believe me, that doesn't happen very often.

It is incredibly hard to earn out an advance, even with a shiny Big 5 contract signed.

But most trad - pubbed books never earn out their advance, which means they will never earn any royalties at all.

(i.e. getting rights back in the future, non-compete clauses that could prevent you writing in the same genre, what happens if you don't earn out your advance?)

Since most of my books have earned out their advances, this means I get royalty checks on a fairly regular and predictable twice / year schedule (usually around April and October).

The agency pocketed millions in future commissions without costing itself a dime on the other side, since most of the writers who signed the addendum probably hadn't earned out their advances, and probably never would.

Trust me, I love knowing that I earned out my advance earlier than expected and that I'm making money with them.

If an author doesn't earn out their advance, they are far less likely to get another one (except for the mega-bestsellers who, as you say, are really just getting lump - sum payments rather than being paid royalties)

One little quibble, though: Most authors never earn out their advances, so the effective royalty is much higher than 25 % of net.

so for anyone trying to make a career out of writing, failing to earn out the advances isn't getting paid more, it's the end of the road.

But on a more practical matter, if your income is advance - heavy — that is, you expect that it'll take you years to earn out your advances, if you ever do — it is probable that you will make less money in the first year, or perhaps few years, of self - publishing, depending on how fast you write, how big your advances are, and how well you do.

You need to sell 113,600 ebooks to earn out your advance.

Since my first book, It's OK Not to Share (a renegade parenting book), was published in 2012, I've earned out the advance, my sales are still steady four years later, and was I invited to write a sequel by my publisher.

My book also did not earn out the advance.

Only when your royalty account has earned out your advance will you earn additional income from royalties.