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This is so much fun. While we've found that Cat Rambo, the crazy cat lady who gave Patrick $100K from SFWA sells on average 12 copies of her book (you read that right, her Tabat novel sold TWELVE copies), Scalzi does a magnitude more, but it's clear he's losing gobs of money for Tor books.
His major latest novel, The Last Emperox only moved 12,000 units. Now I've only had one book personally that's sold more than that, but I also do not have a blue check, a whole fucking industry behind me giving me awards and NYT interviews, a big marketing department, or a $5 million contract. I just do this myself, by contrast, so it's pure profit. He needs to make $357,000 per book to be profitable, and at these sales numbers he is NOWHERE NEAR THAT. He's sunk.
His whole deal has been a grift. Tor is losing hundreds of thousands per book of his. No one wants his woke fake-Heinlein crap.
His major latest novel, The Last Emperox only moved 12,000 units. Now I've only had one book personally that's sold more than that, but I also do not have a blue check, a whole fucking industry behind me giving me awards and NYT interviews, a big marketing department, or a $5 million contract. I just do this myself, by contrast, so it's pure profit. He needs to make $357,000 per book to be profitable, and at these sales numbers he is NOWHERE NEAR THAT. He's sunk.
His whole deal has been a grift. Tor is losing hundreds of thousands per book of his. No one wants his woke fake-Heinlein crap.