Just show me the money

A body that collects authors’ revenues is going off-book and asking about their gender

Q WHAT DOES THE average freelance writer like most, apart from large advances, titanic sales, appreciative reviews and peer esteem? The answer is “free money”, here defined as sources of income that are all the more gratifying for being unexpected. Those Bulgarian translation rights? Your annual PLR statement? The US digital deal your agent fixed for some old, out-of-print novels back in 2015 that you forgot about? The amount may be trifling — nobody ever made very much out of East European translation rights — but the pleasure rests in the fact that you didn’t have to lift a finger to earn it. HERE IN THE VALLEY OF THE SHADOW of Books, one of the most reliable sources of free money is an organisation called the Authors’ Licensing and Collecting…

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The Critic (Digital) - 1 Issue, June 2024

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