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#150 - Why I Turned Down a $200k Book Deal (Solo Episode)

The Pathless Path with Paul Millerd

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The Phases of the Pathless Path

I put together a proposal for a sort of book called the phases of the pathless path and it was like two pages. I sent them a word doc and they were like, yes, let's do it. So I can pull up the offer. They offered me 70,000 for the first book. And as you can see, they don't pay you that right away,. The bigger money was on this second book, 130,000 split up into four payments. Here is the payout structure. It's 32,000 for four different payments. Given a traditional publishing timeline could really be over the next three years. so I could actually get a final payment over in 2026.

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