Gigantic June Royalty Promised by Month’s End

We know the drill, yes? For short story writers royalties are seldom huge and, as is my custom, neither story (nor stories) or publisher will be mentioned here to avoid embarrassment either for payee or payer. Suffice but to say that, if in an anthology, the work in question must share its take with all the other tales there as well. Or, if stand-alone . . . well, it is just a short story.

So too this afternoon’s promised cash cascade for the first quarter of 2023, for not one, but two stories — one in an anthology, the other a small chapbook unto itself. A very small chapbook. But combined together, to whisk to PayPal before the month’s end, well . . . one might say, simply, that if allowed to accrue a certain amount of interest, it could be invested in a cup of coffee.

But then all that means is that coffee, these days, has become quite expensive!