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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	Hi Dan! Sorry I got so busy and didn't respond to you yet, but I can help. I'm more than a little bit swamped through thursday, when I gotta go to a big workshop for my client, present my shite and make a speech, woo! (Only 30 minutes, tough. Remember the words of Winston Churchill!) I've got your mobile number, are you out and about today, it being a red day? If you're around, I could call you maybe about 3:00 or so if that's cool. In the "how much can you earn?" category, some simple maths will give you an idea. Basically, any book comp/design publisher expects to seel a minimum of 10,000 copies, which for them is a bad book, barely break-even. Ideally you'd sell in the range of 30,000 copies, which starts to make things worthwhile. If you get a contract, you get money two different ways, an up front "advance", and a "royalty" based on sales. If you need a big advance, they want to give you less royalty points, and vice versa. Let's assume you get a tiny advance, say $3000. For royalty you can hope for as much as 10%, but might get only 7% for a first book. This percentage is calculated on half the list price of the book, since that's what the publisher sell it for (to the bookstores.) So, the worst case, the book sells only 10k copies, you get only 7%, and let's say the book only costs $20. Basically, you've been screwed, all that time and work, you'll earn only $7000 royalties plus the $3000 advance. At 30,000 copies sold, and a 10% royalty, you'll be doing much better, $30,000 plus the original $3000, now it seems almost worth all those months of work. If your book is a 'general' topic that will not go out of date you could end up being published for a few years, and make some good extra money for years to come. Some books can sell 50k, 100k copies! Do the math, it can turn into a lot of money. (Don't count on this as a first time author, lots depends on how the publisher intends to market the book. They'd probably push a book by Laura Lemay more than they would yours.) Most publishers offer their proposal guidelines online, try this page at New Riders [url=http://www.newriders.com/about/write/]http://www.newriders.com/about/write/[/url] - I have contacts here with the acquisition editors, but you'll need to have one of these form thingies filled out. I used a wild presentation on my first pitch to them, they need that info, but they don't need it in MSWord boring format! Your pal, -doc- [url=http://www.ozones.com/] [img]http://www.ozoneasylum.com/examples/ozoneSIGc.gif[/img] [/url] Loading...
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