{"id":6547,"date":"2010-01-09T08:35:59","date_gmt":"2010-01-09T13:35:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/?p=6547"},"modified":"2010-01-09T08:35:59","modified_gmt":"2010-01-09T13:35:59","slug":"earnout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/earnout\/","title":{"rendered":"Earnout!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sxc.hu\/photo\/1022839\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"Here Is a Tip, by Blary 54 at sxc.hu (click for original)\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/johnesimpson.com\/images\/heresatip_blary54_sxc_sm.jpg?resize=275%2C220&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"275\" height=\"220\" \/><\/a>From <a title=\"Studio B\" href=\"http:\/\/www.studiob.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">my tech-writing agent<\/a>, in an email message yesterday:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>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?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It took 7\u00bd years, but <a title=\"O'Reilly &amp; Assoc.: 'XPath and XPointer,' by John E. Simpson\" href=\"http:\/\/oreilly.com\/catalog\/9780596002916\" target=\"_blank\">my last tech book<\/a> finally brought in more for the publisher than the size of the advance.<\/p>\n<p>(And no, I do not take this as a hint to return to tech writing. Heh.)<\/p>\n<p>Woot!<\/p>\n<p>P.S. To answer the obvious question: thirty-six dollars and change, after subtracting the agent&#8217;s commission. Of my five tech books (depending how you count), this is the only one to have crossed the magic threshold.<\/p>\n<p>P.P.S. I&#8217;ll probably request payment by check; I have a feeling I&#8217;ll either want to frame it or (depending on circumstances at the time it arrives) maybe just frame a photocopy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 7\u00bd years, but my last tech book finally brought in more for the publisher than the size of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","h5ap_radio_sources":[],"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[223,19,5,209],"tags":[1586,1587,1588,1589,1590],"class_list":{"0":"post-6547","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-books-as-books","7":"category-internet","8":"category-06_writing","9":"category-the-business","10":"tag-studio-b","11":"tag-oreilly-associates","12":"tag-xpath-and-xpointer","13":"tag-earning-out","14":"tag-royalties","15":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s6kZSG-earnout","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6547"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6553,"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6547\/revisions\/6553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}