{"id":551,"date":"2009-10-06T11:06:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-06T11:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/how-much-money-does-a-new-york-times-bestseller-make.html"},"modified":"2009-10-06T11:06:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-06T11:06:00","slug":"how-much-money-does-new-york-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/how-much-money-does-new-york-times\/","title":{"rendered":"How Much Money Does A New York Times Bestseller Make?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_l0Jv-SLk81k\/Ssskw81cdWI\/AAAAAAAAC-Q\/TerYSuFVx1g\/s1600-h\/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:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_l0Jv-SLk81k\/Ssskw81cdWI\/AAAAAAAAC-Q\/TerYSuFVx1g\/s400\/money_and_laptop.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5389441802461541730\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If interested, see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.genreality.net\/the-reality-of-a-times-bestseller\">this link<\/a>. I&#8217;d meant to place this on my blog awhile back, but I forgot to do it! I know a lot of authors dream about making the NY Times Bestseller&#8217;s list (myself included). Here are the highlights of the post:<\/p>\n<p>The author&#8217;s book, Twilight Fall, debuted at #19 on the New York Times mass-market list back in July 2008. <br \/>She received the first royalty statement for this NYT novel in April 2009 (Yes, publishing can be quite slow at times.)<br \/>First print run was 88,500 copies.<br \/>Total sales units, as of this royalty statement, are <strong>64,925<\/strong><br \/><strong>Royalties = $40,484.00<\/strong> (this amount does not include the reserves against returns)<br \/>The author received <strong>an advance of $50,000<\/strong><br \/>She\u2019ll be receiving the next royalty statement October or November 2009.<\/p>\n<p>So take a look at the link to glean more information if interested. I&#8217;m glad the author shared her royalty statement with the rest of us!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Chesapeake-Weddings-Romancing-America-Cecelia\/dp\/1602608024\/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&#038;s=books&#038;qid=1253149065&#038;sr=8-2\">~Cecelia Dowdy~<\/a><\/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>If interested, see this link. I&#8217;d meant to place this on my blog awhile back, but I forgot to do it! I know a lot of authors dream about making the NY Times Bestseller&#8217;s list (myself included). Here are the highlights of the post: The author&#8217;s book, Twilight Fall, debuted at #19 on the New [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-royalties-and-advances"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paovYP-8T","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}