Publishing contract for a book, the second one. (books about videogames series - I wrote in videogames magazines 12 years ago, now it's regular books)
I hadn't been paid the royalties for the first one yet when I signed the second. But I thought "ok... I know I won't earn much anyway, let's do another one"
But I honestly didn't expect to earn so little. I had zero expectations and I was still let down. Imagine 12 months of all-nighters, writing, stressing out, and you don't earn the equivalent of half a normal month salary.
And you realize it's too late, you've signed for a second one.
My publisher has started to translate some of the books through Kickstarter campaigns (from french to english) and told me at least twice that mine would be on the second batch. Well it isn't. I managed for a bit because I was hopeful for an english translation, that would at least double the almost nothingness I got. But nope.
And I had asked for a third book, one that could sell more and also really interested me. Like, it wouldn't have been as bad if I didn't earn money with this one because I felt I could do something special with it. I wanted to do it, regardless of what I would earn for once. And they said "okay, if you want to do it that would be cool, we'll talk about it". We didn't talk about it and someone else is doing it.
For weeks now I've tried to find a way to help them for their second Kickstarter campaign, I wanted to make a thread on ERA because you know, if I don't directly benefit from it, it's not against the rules. It was a bit weak of me to try to help anyway, but friends of mine wrote another book that I think deserve to be translated... And I figured that if they found continuous success, I had a chance to get translated one day too. But fuck it, I've lost hope and I shouldn't be helping.
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