Splitting Books/Agents/Royalties
OK, I TRIED ABOUT 5 TIMES TO GET THIS UP THIS AM AND IT NEVER WENT THROUGH, SO MY APOLOGIES FOR IT BEING LATE.
Your agent is the person who speaks with your editors on the books only (s)he sold to them. For that, the standard amount is 15%. It's worth every penny.
Since I "negotiated" and sold my first two books, HeartMate and Heart Thief, whenever I have problems with those two titles I usually email my editor (if the issue is minor), and copy my agent, just for FYI. If the issue is large, I'll call and talk to my editor (and sweat every minute).
All my other books, my agent handles. This is important since I just received a royalty statement (and very small check) for HeartMate from Berkley...and no statement on Heart Thief. I'm pretty sure that I'm still in the hole for Heart Thief and will not be getting royalties on that one for a while, since the printing was large and the returns were, too, but I do like to see how much I'm in the hole so I can dream of a future when I may someday get small checks for it, too.
I don't have a fax. I have the capability but haven't set it up. So Berkley will fax Heart Thief's statement to my agent, then they will include it with the other royalty statements that come to them first and I will get it. Bottom line -- I will always have to deal with Berkley on my first two books, and I know it.
May business be far from your mind as you write today.
Robin
Your agent is the person who speaks with your editors on the books only (s)he sold to them. For that, the standard amount is 15%. It's worth every penny.Since I "negotiated" and sold my first two books, HeartMate and Heart Thief, whenever I have problems with those two titles I usually email my editor (if the issue is minor), and copy my agent, just for FYI. If the issue is large, I'll call and talk to my editor (and sweat every minute).
All my other books, my agent handles. This is important since I just received a royalty statement (and very small check) for HeartMate from Berkley...and no statement on Heart Thief. I'm pretty sure that I'm still in the hole for Heart Thief and will not be getting royalties on that one for a while, since the printing was large and the returns were, too, but I do like to see how much I'm in the hole so I can dream of a future when I may someday get small checks for it, too.
I don't have a fax. I have the capability but haven't set it up. So Berkley will fax Heart Thief's statement to my agent, then they will include it with the other royalty statements that come to them first and I will get it. Bottom line -- I will always have to deal with Berkley on my first two books, and I know it.
May business be far from your mind as you write today.
Robin
posted by FantasyAuthor RobinDOwens | 6:28 AM
3 Comments:
Um... You have already posted this. A week ago or so. I think
Well, shoot! Sorry about that. I thought I'd kept my blogs striaght...Fooey! Of course there was one day where I posted tow and I was feeling stingy so deleted one...
So I owe you all another, and I'll think one up for you. I have TOPICS.
My apologies,
Robin
All right, I mistook this for the blog on Royalties, which I just loaded...so that's why this went up twice...and I'll take it down in a while.
Robin
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