{"id":75,"date":"2010-07-30T00:04:16","date_gmt":"2010-07-30T04:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kristinjanz.com\/?p=75"},"modified":"2010-07-30T00:04:16","modified_gmt":"2010-07-30T04:04:16","slug":"how-much-money-do-writers-make","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kristinjanz.com\/?p=75","title":{"rendered":"How much money do writers make?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tobiasbuckell.com\/2005\/10\/05\/author-advance-survey-version-20\/\">This<\/a> is so old that it&#8217;s almost embarrassing to post it!  But I didn&#8217;t have a blog back in 2005.<\/p>\n<p>Author Tobias Buckell collected and analyzed a bunch of data (from a survey he took of published authors), to determine what a typical science fiction or fantasy writer is paid for a novel.  There&#8217;s lots of interesting and useful information here, breaking down the data to look at the typical advance for a first novel, for a subsequent novel, for fantasy vs. science fiction, for a novel sold with the help of an agent vs. a novel you sold all by yourself (the data strongly suggest that you are likely to get paid more if you have an agent, even subtracting their percentage).<\/p>\n<p>I think the vast majority of my writer friends have already seen this post, but I thought the one or two who might not have would find it useful.  Also, it will hopefully convince all my non-writer friends and family that I&#8217;m unlikely to ever get rich from writing.<\/p>\n<p>Median advance for a first novel: $5000<br \/>\nMedian advance for a subsequent novel: $12,500<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re doing it for the money, Starbucks is a better bet.  Better benefits, too!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is so old that it&#8217;s almost embarrassing to post it! But I didn&#8217;t have a blog back in 2005. Author Tobias Buckell collected and analyzed a bunch of data (from a survey he took of published authors), to determine &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kristinjanz.com\/?p=75\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[296],"class_list":["post-75","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kristinjanz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kristinjanz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kristinjanz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kristinjanz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kristinjanz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kristinjanz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kristinjanz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kristinjanz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kristinjanz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}