Just sold “My Courtship by Lord Magus: A Diary” and “The Adventures of Trina, Hackersprite” to the Eggplant Literary Productions Library! Hurray!
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Just sold “My Courtship by Lord Magus: A Diary” and “The Adventures of Trina, Hackersprite” to the Eggplant Literary Productions Library! Hurray!
YAY! Congrats!!
Thank you!
how much do you generally make from these sales? hope it’s not rude to ask…just a question from a (hopefully) budding writer.
congrats!
Not rude at all!
It varies greatly from market to market. I’ve received as much as $930+ for a story (paid at the rate of a quarter a word) to as little as $10 for a story (and a couple “shared royalties” anthologies of which I have yet to see a check for . . .).
The ELP Library is a very unusual market in that they take snippets and excerpts of pieces, 300 words or less, and pay a flat rate of $10 per accepted work. So they’re not paying a lot, but on a per word ratio (a little over $.03/word), they’re pretty decent. And it’s not like I can market excerpts of unfinished/incomplete pieces anyplace else.
There’s no way in hell I’d be able to make a living off my writing. But it’s a nice bit of side income.
So it’s hard to make a “generally speaking” estimate. On a pure mean calculation, I guess I’m averaging around $150 a story, but that’s not really a good picture since that includes several very lucrative “pro” sales, and a couple yet-to-see-a-royalty-check anthology projects.
wow…thanks for the information. i really admire the fact that you’re a published author. i’d like to be there someday… and it really helps to see how people like you fit into the market, if that makes sense. i ought to check out some more of your work sometime. you’re a very talented lady.
Congrats, Eugie
Thanks!
COOL!