Daendrew Posted July 24, 2021 Share Posted July 24, 2021 "George R.R. Martin's fantasy trilogy 'A Song of Fire and Ice' sold here for £450,000 after an epic Battle of Dinosaurs between Legend's John 'It's my round!' Jarrold and ultimately victorious Malcolm 'It's your round!' Edwards of HarperCollins." Source: https://news.ansible.uk/a79.html#07 For context, the average first time fantasy author gets a measly $500 advance and make $0 in royalties afterwards, That is not a typo. The average BEST SELLING fantasy or sci fi book nets the author only $30-50k. The executive assistant at a publisher makes more than the average sci fi/fantasy author. They offered George this money with only 90 pages submitted. They knew this was golden. See this thread from SFF publisher John Jarrold, who lost the bidding war here: https://news.ansible.uk/a79.html#07 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ran Posted July 24, 2021 Share Posted July 24, 2021 Hmm, this is a familiar tidbit... That was his UK advance that Ansible reported on. John Jarrold was on the losing side of the bidding there, but on the winning side for the US rights with Random House. At bare minimum RH paid at least as much as HarperCollins, and probably rather more since their rights would cover all territories outside of the UK and the Commonwealth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daendrew Posted July 24, 2021 Author Share Posted July 24, 2021 13 minutes ago, Ran said: Hmm, this is a familiar tidbit... That was his UK advance that Ansible reported on. John Jarrold was on the losing side of the bidding there, but on the winning side for the US rights with Random House. At bare minimum RH paid at least as much as HarperCollins, and probably rather more since their rights would cover all territories outside of the UK and the Commonwealth. I would also guess RH paid a lot more. HC only printed ~3,000 hardcovers of AGOT. You would think more copies would be printed in the UK for a massive sale like this? I am selling my last copy of the UK first printing of AGOT if anyone is interested I no longer collect ASOIAF. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ran Posted July 24, 2021 Share Posted July 24, 2021 I think Bantam only did 50k or so of AGoT as well. But their faith paid off, to say the least. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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