From my tech-writing agent, in an email message yesterday:
Did you want us to send you a check for the payment due, or did you want an electronic funds transfer to your bank acct?
It took 7½ years, but my last tech book finally brought in more for the publisher than the size of the advance.
(And no, I do not take this as a hint to return to tech writing. Heh.)
Woot!
P.S. To answer the obvious question: thirty-six dollars and change, after subtracting the agent’s commission. Of my five tech books (depending how you count), this is the only one to have crossed the magic threshold.
P.P.S. I’ll probably request payment by check; I have a feeling I’ll either want to frame it or (depending on circumstances at the time it arrives) maybe just frame a photocopy.
DarcKnyt says
Congratulations! Great stuff! That’s pretty cool!
marta says
Wow. A check for writing. That is something!
recaptcha: House nerf
I just wish I knew what that was.
Jules says
Well, that’s just neat. Congrats!
Miriam says
Hooray!
John says
All: Thanks! (And I’ll try not to spend it all at once in the same place. :))
Eileen says
Congrats! I’m kind of surprised a tech book would earn out seven years later as my first thought would be that the tech has changed so much that the book is obsolete … but obviously you have something more valuable than that! :)