How much will a new author be paid?

answers1: $100000000
answers2: Mark Twain began to jot down interior the 1860's, his works
are seen realism. maximum of Twain's books have been bought by skill
of subscription. Canvassers went homestead to homestead around the
country and have been given orders for his books from human beings one
after the different. Twain made an incredible variety of money
merchandising his books by skill of subscription.
answers3: Youll get paid depending on how much books you sell <br>
plus you have to pay your publisher and your agent and the editor
answers4: Very little. <br>
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Authors are generally paid either solely in royalties, or with an
'advance' which is a one-off payment, off-set against royalties. The
idea is that your book will make the publisher enough money to pay
back this advance, and the publisher then doesn't start paying you
royalties until this advance has been recouped for the publisher.
However, if your book doesn't make enough to do this, you don't have
to pay your advance back. Realistically, a new author would be very
lucky to get as much as £1,000 (sorry, don't know what that is in US
dollars - about $1500 - $2000, I'd guess) for their first advance. You
will hear tales in the press of authors who got a £50,000 advance, but
it's incredibly rare. <br>
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So, you get paid in royalties, which is a percentage of the profits of
your book. But other people have to make profits from your book too,
such as the bookstore who sells it, and your publisher, and your
agent, if you have one (and you'd be unlikely to get a book deal
without one, as very few publishers accept unsolicited manuscripts
from new authors). So, it really does depend on how many books you
sell. Your royalties are a small (ie, low single figures) percentage
of the book's cover price, but only if it's sold at full price. <br>
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This link is a useful guide. However, I would say that their figures
are actually rather generous in comparison to reality. <br>
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<a href="http://www.poewar.com/the-basics-of-book-profits/"
rel="nofollow"class=Clr-b>http://www.poewar.com/the-basics-of-book...</a>
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Most novelists don't even make a living wage out of writing. They do
other things as well. Terry Pratchett is one of the UK's best-selling
authors - he was the best-selling author of the 1990s in the UK, has
sold 55 million books worldwide, is translated into over 30 languages,
is one of the top-ten best-selling non-American authors in the US, etc
etc. He's very prolific, and he's written a huge number of books.
However... his first novel was published in 1971, and he didn't manage
to enough to give up his day job as a press officer until 1987. By
1987, he'd already had four Discworld novels published. That's one of
the most successful book series in the world. But it took that long
before he earned enough to write full-time. <br>
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The absolute last reason anyone should write a book is money.