“However warm the fuzzies might get because we love reading, there’s still a bottom line.”— Heather Demetrios, medium.comTagged: How to be a writer, Money, Writers and money, Publishing, Books
“No writer I knew had a person they trusted to advise on finance: it’s a notoriously predatory industry and our unconventional earnings make getting clear advise difficult indeed.”— Heather Demetrios, medium.comTagged: How to be a writer, Money, Writers and money, Publishing, Books
“Did anyone working with me — agency, publishing team — tell me that a staggering advance was not something I should depend on or get used to and that, in fact, it’s extraordinarily common in the publishing industry for untested debuts to be paid large sums they will never see again? No.”— Heather Demetrios, medium.comTagged: How to be a writer, Money, Writers and money, Publishing, Books