Reply #53: Still, an advance is more than the net most author mills pay...

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which is the only point I was trying to make. Marketing and promotion is the most important thing for book sales. You are using and believing the author mill meme used to suck new authors in.

Legitimate small presses pay authors 50 percent of ebook sales.(just to let you know)and that is on top of any advance paid for the rights. Remember..you are selling the rights to the publisher.