I occasionally update you on the impressive scale of my earnings as a writer. I started doing this because of trolling by shooters about how I was coining it in! But I’ve noticed that quite a lot of people think that every book one writes pays for an expensive new car.
This is the latest Statement from one of my publishers, Pelagic, with whom I published Fighting for Birds (2012), Behind the Binoculars (2015, with Keith Betton) and Behind more Binoculars (2017, also with Keith Betton).
Pelagic has just paid me £62.82 for my share of these three titles – woohoo! That covers a 12-month period because, as I told you then, the first 6 months of 2020 didn’t generate £50 and so the authors have to wait until the pile of pennies overtops that level.
Pelagic is a good publisher – strightforward, friendly and reliable.
I was thinking of writing Fighting for Birds 10 years ago, and I was in my last few months at the RSPB and planning a trip to the USA. I was also setting up this blog as a plaything for my post-RSPB life. All that seems a long time ago – and it is!
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“every book one writes pays for an expensive new car”
For someone, possibly, just not for the author or the copy-editor or the proof-reader
Not exactly the whole Bank of England is it? Amazes me in fact how little authors earn unless they’re John Grisham et al.