What is the approximate starting salary range for authors?
Using “salary” with fiction writer is like using “sure thing” at the racetrack. When it comes to fiction, there is no regular or predictable income. Fiction writers get an “advance against royalties” and then the royalties themselves-if any. The advance is a portion of what the publisher thinks the book, when published, will earn in sales. First-time novelists, being unknown commodities, do not demand large advances (though there have been exceptions for first novels that publishers thought would be blockbusters. But most of these bombed out, which hurt the authors’ careers.) The average income for fiction writers in the U.S. is something very low, maybe $3,000. But that is skewed. A handful of authors make millions; a number make virtually nothing. My goal, and the goal I advise for new writers, is to try to build your audience progressively by writing better and better books. Gain the publishers’ confidence that you can turn in a solid performance every time. Then you will make some
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