![]() ![]() ![]() Prominent black authors also joined the conversation, highlighting the low book advances they received. “We knew it was there, and we knew it was big, but we didn’t know it was that big,” she said. But once non-black authors shared their book advances, the disparity became plain. That conversation isn’t necessarily new within the publishing world, McKinney told the PBS NewsHour’s Jeffrey Brown. Tochi Onyebuchi aka Big Head June 7, 2020 If you'd like to contribute anonymously with what #PublishingPaidMe, we have a survey for you. McKinney said she and fellow author Tochi Onyebuchi, both of whom are black, said they wanted non-black writers to share their advances - the amount a publisher will pay for a book before it’s released - to open up an “uncomfortable conversation regarding numbers.” In recent days, hundreds of authors have shared how much they were paid with the hashtag #PublishingPaidMe, a push to reveal the economic disparities between black and non-black authors. ![]()
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