Pat just received his semi-annual royalty check

[BudDickman]

https://twitter.com/stealthygeek/status/1514251808889319426?s=20&t=zKHColNGKGSCy4XAKujdrg

Even if he's not lying about earning out and "selling by the hundreds", that would be like tens of dollars after the publisher takes its cut.

But I'm sure the publisher is just sending him a statement about book sales for record keeping purposes and the books have not earned out.

 

[TorqueWheeler]

Just more evidence for Quasi's lawyers to take everything he owns.

 

[IGotATreeOnMyHouse85]

“By their hundreds” not so piggy.

 

[guest]

He'll take Stinky out for a fucking butter burger, or whatever fat Midwestern filth they serve at Hooligan's, and half a dozen beers and blow the whole check.

 

[Stetten's Long Thumbers]

At best he makes 10%. So 999 books at $10 each to be ultra generous and he's made less than $1000 . . . which would be true if he paid off his entire advance. Which he hasn't, so he's not making jack shit actually.

 

[PeteRose]

Just more evidence for Quasi's lawyers to take everything he owns.

he really is bad at this...

the debtors exam is going to be the best content yet!

 

[ThatRetardWhoDoxxdHimself]

“by the hundreds”
So 200 in what, 6 months? You know if he sold 1,001 copies he’d be saying thousands. Who the fuck would brag about that? He’s been doing this for like 10 years and his most successful book’s sales can be counted by a kindergartner.

 

[FurBurger]

I believe his Angry Robot books have earned out, because his advances were only something like $4k each.

To quote Charles Stross, a sci fi author who's had maybe fifteen books published by Tor:

Royalties on mass market paperback editions are set at 8% on the first 150,000 copies of each book, and 10% thereafter, or 5% on copies sold at a discount of more than 55% off SRP.

I can't find any books by Patrick S. Tomilson on Amazon, but looking at similar authors I'd say his books go for maybe $7 new. Assuming 200 books sold - which seems waaay high - Pat might be looking at as much as $112 in royalties.... which he'll need to hand over to Quasi in short order.

EDIT: Here's Pat lying about royalties. I think he's counting his margin on selling the books in with his royalties.

 

[BudDickman]

At best he makes 10%. So 999 books at $10 each to be ultra generous and he's made less than $1000 . . . which would be true if he paid off his entire advance. Which he hasn't, so he's not making jack shit actually.

I fucked up the math, but yeah, he would have made between $1k and $10k even if this is true. Over a 6-month period. Even if true, that is pathetic.

 

[JoeCumiawearsDIAPERS]

Nice, sounds like he can take Niki out to dinner - happy hour menu of course.

 

[Gay Faggot.]

Pat might be looking at as much as $112 in royalties....

Righteous bucks.

 

[NoBacon]

Even if he was selling a lot of books and even if he was making a lot of money, it’s such a low class ghetto move to brag about it. What a fat dickhead.

I mean obviously he’s not selling anything and would have made 10x as much working at target the last 5 years, but still.

 

[TomFromNawlins]

He acknowledges the support but still can’t force himself to add the words “thank you.”

 

[ChildlessHambino]

Oh cool maybe he can buy something for his daughter. Not so, he’ll just take a vacation from fart-couching and go see the killing fields in Cambodia or some awful shit. Fat.

 

[Slackjawed Cow]

The fact he announces each check twice a year for at least 3 years on twitter just shows how insecure he is about it.

 

[guest]

Congrats on the $26.45 royalty check, faggot.

 

[Slackjawed Cow]

He is going blow a nice chunk of that at hooligans today to celebrate.

 

[FurBurger]

I just found some author who looks like Janice Soprano if she was transgender, who writes:

When I do the math on, say, a $20-25k advance (and yes, some now come with like 1% royalties or something, which on a bestseller is great, but is fraction of a real royalty rate), I subtract the 15% for agent, the 20% for taxes, and come up w/$13,000 for 4-6 months of work.

She(?) has done a bunch of writing for Star Wars, Marvel etc.; and has one of her own books at Amazon rank #84,297 (as opposed to In The Black's #1,313,323). She's published by Angry Robot, so if she's not making any money writing books - what hope has Pat?

 

[Slackjawed Cow]

 

[captain_kamala]

he should buy his wife a sunglasses case. but you know he won't.