Publishing Paid Me tag on Twitter
The PublishingPaidMe tag on Twitter is to expose the difference in advances between white and POC, especially Black, writers. There's a lot of data to process, since there are big differences in how much large Big 5 publishers pay compared to small independent publishers and also YA vs adult SF/F vs MG vs mystery/crime etc, and the advances don't take into account royalties, audio and foreign rights, etc.
N.K Jemisin explains a bit about it here: https://twitter.com/nkjemisin/status/1269462374823624709
I posted my numbers here: https://twitter.com/marthawells1/status/1269387266100801538
You can see, my advances are not large. I make most of my income from royalties after 2010, and audio and foreign language rights. For my earlier books, Wheel of the Infinite and the Ile-Rien trilogy all tanked and never produced royalties. The Death of the Necromancer did well, but was jointly accounted with Wheel of the Infinite, so it never produced royalties either.
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N.K Jemisin explains a bit about it here: https://twitter.com/nkjemisin/status/1269462374823624709
I posted my numbers here: https://twitter.com/marthawells1/status/1269387266100801538
You can see, my advances are not large. I make most of my income from royalties after 2010, and audio and foreign language rights. For my earlier books, Wheel of the Infinite and the Ile-Rien trilogy all tanked and never produced royalties. The Death of the Necromancer did well, but was jointly accounted with Wheel of the Infinite, so it never produced royalties either.
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I put my hand up and said that publishers didn't take me on either, so I published my books independently, and I recommended everyone should put their own work out that way without censorship.