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“In literary fiction, I would say it is more normal for advances to be in the hundreds rather than the thousands of euro. Royalty rates in Ireland are often based on net receipts rather than list price, so if you’re looking at a book that sells for a tenner, the author might expect to get something between 50c and €1.20 for it.
“If you look at the top 1,000 books sold in Ireland last year, you are doing well to sell somewhere between 1,000 and 2,000 books, so if you multiply that by – for simplicity’s sake – a euro, you’re making between €1,000-€2,000 for your book. If you make that, you’ve done well, and that is more normal than the great big advances.” - Donal Ryan (winner the Guardian First Book Award and Dublin Book Festival’s Irish Book of the Decade as well as making the shortlist for the Booker prize) on returning to his day job
You still want to become a professional writer?
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>implying people become writers for the big bux
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>>9068363
yeah.....but half of /lit/ and students in literature degrees are under the false impression that they can make a frugal living from it.
it would be easier to become a rockstar....and i don't think many people even listen to rock music anymore
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If you're writing to make shekels, odds are your shit isn't gonna sell anyway.
Unless it's one of those dumb ass novelty books about "how to make a million dollars" or finding happines or whatever, and even then they become succesful only through sheer luck and a little marketing push that'll end up costing you.
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>>9068354
Damn, that sets it out pretty starkly. It is funny how many people seem to have no idea about (a) their chances of being published and (b) how much money they'd make if they were. Even when people try to sound realistic ('I know I probably won't get rich'...) they are actually being wildly optimistic.
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>>9069610
...on the other hand, the OP might just make a really compelling case for writing genre fiction.
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The dream is to write for a living but I know that's unlikely, so I'd settle for doing my current full time job as well as writing. So how I currently am, pretty much, only published.
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So? Anthony Trollope worked at a post office.
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