Savvy authors have recently been choosing to self-publish their first 10,000 copies and then transition afterwards into a publishing deal. If you’re able to go this route, you’ll receive full royalties from the first 10k sales (worth approximately $55k more than the royalties you’d receive from a publisher on that number of copies sold[2]) and can then enter contract negotiations from a position of strength since your book is already de-risked.
