How do I get a 2 million dollar advance for my novel?

have a rich well connected family

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2k - 5k is standard for good books.

Be a womeme, minority, some made up tumblr gender or all three at once.

>>9524724
In the UK you'd be lucky to get £500

>I ate in the blunt way I had as a child—a glut of spaghetti, mossed with cheese. The nothing jump of soda in my throat.

worth every dollar imo

>>9525954
>The nothing jump
What

>>9524689
Write fucking garbage novels

>>9524689
What you want is not writing a novel, what you want is 2 million dollars, and there are much easier ways to obtain that than writing a novel (hint: work in a high-paying field, save money, and invest in low-cost index funds).

>>9524689
In Greece, we write so we don't kill ourselves or others.

>>9525954
For fucks sake

to get that kind of advance, you would need to be very big celebrity or an extremely well selling author already

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How much money did The Girls even make? How much money did this make (also ~ 2 mil)?

It seems strange for publishers to do this.