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a week at Clarion SouthPosted by Justine at 1:31, February 11th, 2005 under Musings, State of the World, Sydney/Australia, Travelling | Comments Off
A Few More Words on First Novel Advances
Back in December I posted a little essay about first novel advances. Thanks to John Scalzi linking to it in three different places, but most especially at metafilter, thousands of people have now read all about what my mates got for their first novels and it's been linked to all over the shop. The musing also seems to have served as a wee reminder to Tobias Buckell that he promised to put together a database of first novel advances ...Posted by Justine at 1:34, February 5th, 2005 under Musings, Publishing business, Writing life | Comments Off

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