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How Much Do Publishers Pay You For A Fiction Or Nonfiction Book?

Learn how much money went to authors from Britney Spears and Wimpy Kid’s creator to a Nobel laureate

Janice Harayda
Published in
8 min readFeb 24, 2024

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“The Poisonwood Bible” and Barbara Kingsolver / Faber & Faber Books

Last week a journalist friend had the kind of conversation with a literary agent that writers dream of.

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Janice Harayda
Lit Life

Critic, novelist, award-winning journalist. Former book editor of the Plain Dealer and book columnist for Glamour. Words in NYT, WSJ, and other major media.