Colossal Royalty Announced for June

Well, technically announced in June, the wheels of royalties like much else grinding exceedingly slowly. So actually this is to be a payment for copies of stories (or story) sold in the first quarter of 2024. And royalties, anyway, for short stories are rare — some might be for one as part of an anthology, but a story alone? How much money could it have earned?

How much indeed. To follow the custom of these occasional reports (cf. January 14, et a number of al.), neither the publisher nor the amount will be revealed here — to avoid embarrassment at either end. But nevertheless, as e-received today: I’ve attached your Q1 2024 Royalty Statement. All payments will be made by June 30. I think that will probably be via PayPal, since the cost of a stamp could seriously compromise the average single-quarter royalty take for short fiction.

Let it build up though, and before you know it, it could be enough to make a down payment on a small sandwich! (Or sometimes, in honesty, maybe more.)