{"id":432,"date":"2010-04-24T12:03:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-24T12:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/how-much-money-does-a-new-york-times-bestseller-make-part-2.html"},"modified":"2010-04-24T12:03:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-24T12:03:00","slug":"how-much-money-does-new-york-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/how-much-money-does-new-york-times\/","title":{"rendered":"How Much Money Does A New York Times Bestseller Make &#8211; Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_l0Jv-SLk81k\/S9LeM7xGjBI\/AAAAAAAADhU\/-6_taCzzPhQ\/s1600\/money_and_laptop.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 400px;\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_l0Jv-SLk81k\/S9LeM7xGjBI\/AAAAAAAADhU\/-6_taCzzPhQ\/s400\/money_and_laptop.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5463673611737271314\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lynn Viehl, author of <strong>Twilight Fall<\/strong>, a New York Times mass market bestseller, was kind enough to share her first two royalty statements on her blog. I posted about the first royalty statement <a href=\"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.blogspot.com\/2009\/10\/how-much-money-does-new-york-times.html\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>You can find the information about her second statement<a href=\"http:\/\/www.genreality.net\/more-on-the-reality-of-a-times-bestseller\"> here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>There are a few things that I wanted to highlight about her second blog post:<\/p>\n<p>#1. The <em><strong>net<\/strong><\/em> sales units are 61,663 copies<br \/>#2. According to the statement, the author made a net amount of $30,155.69. <strong>HOWEVER,<\/strong> after you subtract her agent&#8217;s commission and taxes, the amount she actually kept for herself was <strong>$24,517.36<\/strong>!<br \/>#3. If she were forced to live solely upon the $24,517.36, for her family of four for one year, she would only be slightly above the US poverty level! \ud83d\ude41<br \/>#4. The author mentioned that she wondered how her numbers compared to other New York Times mass market bestsellers. It&#8217;s hard to say because other authors don&#8217;t offer up this information, publishers don&#8217;t offer up this information, or, if they do, it&#8217;s always done anonymously!<br \/>#5. She still hasn&#8217;t earned out her $50,000 advance yet!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d like to take a moment to tell what I heard about advances and earning out recently. I was listening to the CDs from the last American Christian Fiction Writers Conference. One of the workshops was on advances. I heard an industry professional state that more than 80% of the advances they pay DON&#8217;T earn out! That&#8217;s shocking! I&#8217;m thinking that Lynn&#8217;s numbers might be comparable to other authors.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d like to publicly thank Lynn for offering this information to her blog readers. She&#8217;s answered questions that I&#8217;ve often wondered about.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\">~Cecelia Dowdy~<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lynn Viehl, author of Twilight Fall, a New York Times mass market bestseller, was kind enough to share her first two royalty statements on her blog. I posted about the first royalty statement here. You can find the information about her second statement here. 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