Let's Talk Figures: Traditional Publishing, Money, & Marketing

What about the remaining 1%?

Thank you so much for this!!!

I’m going into submission this week, so I am anxious! 😅😅 I love your videos.

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That sounds like a massive amount of promotion. Can you update on your 2nd book to see if they continued to do an equal amount of promotion? From what I've seen other trad published authors, they do seem to imply the marketing isn't that robust, but this seems incredible. Congrats on all the support.

I always love hearing you break down things like this! I wish more people did this for authortube, I’m just living off of your and Liselle’s videos lol

New sub! Thx for the transparency and sharing

How much are the advances usually for a 1st time author $$ or is it different for each individual situation?

‪“Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.”-The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli‬

You forgot to add your husband's tshirt to your marketing budget. It was a key part of your marketing strategy!

What a great idea!! I would love to see more of these. Maybe give the dog cozies a chance? LOL!

you nailed this video!!!!

This is an incredible breakdown! Thank you so much for sharing it! I still love my book box so much! I’m also glad to see you break down income and stuff like that. 💜💕

I also need an author/screenwriter website because I have short stories published and my traditional publishing debut (short story) is out in October. It’s nice to find out what other people do.

Looks great. Love what they did with the cover and all the materials you made.

Omg I loved this!!!! I love hearing about all the different parts and behind the scenes of being an author

Extremely informative! Thank you.

Love this video! In between querying right now and these videos give me information about author life as well as keep me motivated and sane😂 Also your excitement on all videos is just so contagious🥺❤️❤️

That was really helpful, thank you. That's such a good idea, using a separate card. I would have never thought of that!

I'm not a math person, but when you add "trad pub, money, marketing" in the same sentence with "graphs and pies", suddenly my world is enlightened and I finally understand what's being discussed. So this is how mathematicians feel like when they look at charts and understand all those numerical gobbledygook 😂

This was so insightful and helpful! Thanks for sharing!✨

Thank you so much for sharing this so transparently! My first book is coming out in June, so it's really helpful to hear what did/didn't work for other new authors.

Also, I just noticed When the Sea Came for Us in the background! Is this under contract now? Is it coming out?

Love the video! Btw I drove past a road called cranberry hollow rd (lane?, I forget) but it made me think of you

This is wonderful information. I'm really curious about the book box - where did you get the box itself? Did you get all the items from different places and assemble them yourself, or is there a 'book box' business that does this?

Thanks for making this video!! It was so fun and interesting!!

Love videos like this

How did you learn to do taxes for author money? Is there a cheat sheet?

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Really liked thus breakdown and seeing where the money went and the like!

That was really interesting, Lindsay :) Thank you for doing it.

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Yay! I’m glad you made this video, I’m always so curious about this stuff ☺️ also I loved the line drawing haha but honestly I feel like it’s helpful for people to understand the different payment splits and how that affects income

This was such an awesome, informative video. Thank you for sharing! btw I'm an accountant and you did a great job on the math ;)

Do you cold-call bookstores for signings?

Thank you so, so much for this!! It's great to see you, as always :) Sending love!!!! xo

Now a lot of the things you talked about in your book deal videos make A LOT of sense. Again thank you. We really appreciate this. 💛

Thank you so much for doing this.💛 I wish we had more trad pub authors on authortube. 🥺

P.S. This is off topic but do you know if your publisher has plans for a GW paperback?

Love these types of videos! Thank you for the great info, Lindsay!