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An insider’s look at royalties

I’m on my way to San Francisco today to begin my book tour tomorrow, so I thought I’d send you over to my best writing pal Barry Lyga’s blog today, for an insider’s look at authors’ royalty statements. One of the things I’m enjoying so much about watching my writing career and Barry’s develop the way they have is that we finally get to learn all this cool behind-the-scenes stuff about the publishing business. Now it’s your turn.

See you in S.F.

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Posted on Sunday, March 18th, 2007 at 5:08 am under Writing . Subscribe to responses: RSS 2.0 Comment Feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

12 Responses to “An insider’s look at royalties”

  1. Patrick Says:
    March 18th, 2007 at 7:59 am

    Yeah, and check out THIS!

    And one wonders how I became a Space Lord…

    Elections? HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

  2. Patrick Says:
    March 18th, 2007 at 7:52 pm

    BTW - A Massive Petfood recall is underway.

    http://www.menufoods.com/recall/

    Seems to be mostly canned food.

  3. robin Says:
    March 18th, 2007 at 8:50 pm

    Thanks, P Dawg (which I’ve decided to call you). I heard about that, but I appreciate the heads up, and I’m happy to pass it along. The wet foods on this list (canned and in pouches) have killed some pets–kidney failure. So definitely worth looking at the list if you have a pet.

  4. bj Says:
    March 18th, 2007 at 9:21 pm

    What I found both interesting and disgusting about that list is that if you pay top dollar for Iams, Science Diet or Eukanuba you’re getting EXACTLY the same crappy diseased cat food as you would if you bought bargain brand America’s Choice (A&P house brand), Wegman’s house brand, Fine Feline (Aldi Discount Foods House brand), Lil Red (Agway house brand), Save a Lot house brand, or Winn Dixie house brand.

    At least I’ve been paying bottom dollar for MY brand on the list, though luckily I didn’t ever buy the type that’s been recalled.

    And the Briggster is now getting chicken and fish I cook for him.

    Years ago you never heard of animals dying of cancer. Now it seems to be a normal occurence.

  5. robin Says:
    March 18th, 2007 at 9:39 pm

    I know, BJ, I had that same thought. When we first got Bear as a puppy, his mother’s owner told us she secretly screened people by asking if they would feed the dog one of those cheapo brands on the list. Since we were all about premium dog foods, we passed that test. But now I see it’s the same manufacturer, just a different label. Doy.

  6. bj Says:
    March 19th, 2007 at 5:37 am

    I was clued in on this brand thing years ago by a guy whose name is Campbell (think Campbell’s Soup) who told me that well over half the canned soups on the shelves of all the stores in the US come out of Campbell’s factories no matter what label is on them. Why should dog or cat food be different? Or pasta, or window cleaner, or anything else? It’s the “economy of scale”. Maybe we pay less in some ways but in others we pay much more. Like the fuel to get the ingredients to the ONE factory that makes this stuff, and then the fuel to transport the finished goods from that ONE factory to everywhere else in the country (and sometimes the world.) And when things like this recall happen it has much bigger repercussions than if things were more localized and smaller scale.

    That Fine Feline cat food I just threw out was made in Thailand. Think about how insane that is, from numerous perspectives.

  7. Vc Says:
    March 19th, 2007 at 6:39 pm

    Purina, Friskies…. that’s all I buy. Never had any problems with them…. dog gets dry, cat gets wet and dry. If it’s not labeled Purina or one of its subsidiaries, I don’t buy it. For one cat and one dog it doesn’t cost THAT much more.

  8. bj Says:
    March 20th, 2007 at 11:21 am

    Um, Vc? I live not far from one of the Purina processing plants. The rumors and stories that have come out of that place are enough to ensure that I never ever ever feed any animal Purina. There have been a few scandals locally about the processing plant being caught buying diseased (cancerous) meat. There was a time they were shut down for awhile. I’d rethink that if I were you.

  9. Vc Says:
    March 20th, 2007 at 2:08 pm

    Nope. I’ve got the world’s healthiest animals. If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.

  10. annette Says:
    March 21st, 2007 at 12:28 pm

    wow barry, seems like everyone was pretty interested in your blog. by the way where is your head?

  11. Vc Says:
    March 21st, 2007 at 5:16 pm

    Annette…. um gosh girl, I’m not sure you should - like - ask…. I mean…. hrmmmm….

  12. Barry Says:
    March 24th, 2007 at 1:06 pm

    Annette,

    I need to stay incognito. You know, so THEY don’t find me.