Blogger signs deal, then self-pubs, keeps advance...?

If the book was contracted to be 300 pages long but was submitted at only 46 pages long, I can see how the publishers might refuse it.

She's lying through and through, and it's a publicity stunt. Her last sentence is to buy her book. Yep, she's got it all figured out.

"Big advance" is in the eye of the beholder. May have been $2.00 for all we know.

Old Hack said:

I don't see how Trunk's actions might lead to smaller advances in the future; could you clarify?

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She's not a big name, so her actions probably won't have much influence on anyone else, but in a general sense, when folks pull this sort of thing, it means that publisher has less money to sign other, more talented and dedicated writers.

Susan Littlefield said:

"Big advance" is in the eye of the beholder. May have been $2.00 for all we know.

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True. For some folk 5k is a Big advance, for others anything short of a 100k is cheap. Guess it depends on your circumstances, experience, following and expectations.

I haven't seen anything on this specific case. But it and a couple of others came up in convo with a couple of editors recently. Cited as a reason for not self-publishing until I'd made honest attempts at the Big Five. Many houses are now more cautious of self-published authors who may have 'exhausted their market'. So the self-pub to commercial-pub conveyor may not be a good strategy.