What One Novelist Earns

The Stranger talked to author Jonathan Evison about how much he earns as a novelist, and Evison respectably reveals some of his numbers, including the advance he was given for his first published novel, All About Lulu ($4,500), the advance he got for his third published novel, The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving ($75,000), and the film rights for Lulu ($15,000), which has yet to be made into a movie. [Thanks Kirstin!]

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