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Brandon Sanderson (Best-Selling Author) on Writing, Careers and Finding Your Passion

Not Overthinking

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How Does the Advance Work in Non Fiction?

In fiction do not sell on proposal, unless you are a celebrity that already has a bilt on fan base. A s really about five thousand per novel advance, every year for four years. So the advance is kind of to pay for your next book, but then we're not talking big money. Once in a while,. a book'll just take off even before it's published, and a lot of publishers will want it. It hits the whatever's going on in the market just right, or evern gets really excited. And you do hear of these things happening, a book selling for 250 thousands dollars, or things like this by a first time author - which is so wildly unlikely

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