How does a fiction author make a living? When it comes to finding an agent, working with editors, and getting paid, Stephanie Feldman, author of Saturnalia and The Angel of Losses, is an open book about the good, the bad, and the honestly confusing side of publishing. She shows us just how much “rejection is not personal” matters when it comes to getting your work out into the world. And that perseverance to navigate an often harsh industry has resulted in two published novels, being the co-editor of the multi-genre anthology Who Will Speak for America? and her stories and essays appearing in Asimov’s Science Fiction, Catapult Magazine, Electric Literature, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, The Rumpus, and Vol. 1 Brooklyn. 

This Week on the Get Paid Podcast:

• What it takes before a writer gets royalties
• The journey of 11 years between her 2 books
• Inside the world of book editing and publishing
• What her new book Saturnalia is all about
• Self-publishing vs. traditional publishing deal
• Is there any correlation between the quality of a book with how much it sells?
• How Stephanie gets her advance paid
• Primary parenting, writing, boundaries, and managing it all
• How the Amazon algorithm works
• Intense Twitter trolls

Also Mentioned in this Episode:

• Saturnalia on Amazon
• Saturnalia on Goodreads
• The Angel of Losses
• Vox news on publishers in court
• Stephanie’s short stories

Connect with Stephanie Feldman

• Website
• Twitter
• Instagram

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