The whole "don't expect to be paid" thing is why I have immense respect for Jim C. Hines for publishing, every year, the exact granular detail of what he makes and from where. Like. Obviously he has several things going for him, but the fact that he's willing to pull back the curtain and say "here is what I make and here is what people have self-reported to me as making when I asked for this" is really useful both to see how little many writers get paid (the assumption that you have a breadwinning spouse, which--I mean, nice gig if you can get it; my husband and I could certainly get by on only one salary, but we'd be a lot more stressed than we are, and personally I have a big vendetta against the idea of being dependent on him for my housing/food/etc. just because it's not that I think he'd be a jerk about it, but if God forbid something happened to him and now I've got to support myself with a resume that has a gap of ?? years on it - nah. No. No thank you. ANYWAY.)
(It also really bothers me that so much of publishing is propped up monetarily by the work of people whom they denigrate - hi, romance authors! - and then you get people making unholy advances that will never earn out because they're white men famous or something, which just fucks over the people writing actually good books because lol we spent what could have been your advance on Memoir From Washed Up Actor #86. I say this, and yet I am absolutely going to buy a copy of Robert Griffin III's book next year for my father, both because he'll love it and because I want to read that damn thing and get ALL the gossip.)
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Date: 2021-12-01 06:29 pm (UTC)(It also really bothers me that so much of publishing is propped up monetarily by the work of people whom they denigrate - hi, romance authors! - and then you get people making unholy advances that will never earn out because they're
white menfamous or something, which just fucks over the people writing actually good books because lol we spent what could have been your advance on Memoir From Washed Up Actor #86. I say this, and yet I am absolutely going to buy a copy of Robert Griffin III's book next year for my father, both because he'll love it and because I want to read that damn thing and get ALL the gossip.)