How a Book Advance Gets Paid – (You Don't Get All the Money Up Front!) – and why the news from the London Book Fair re: Kathleen MacMahon's advance is good news for all Irish writers

The news from the London Book Fair that Irish writer, Kathleen MacMahon has received £500,000 for her first book, This is How It Ends is very cheering for writers and the book trade alike. Little, Brown are clearly madly in love with the book, describing it as 'literary commercial fiction', ie a perfect book for [...]