Low advances? I guess it's all relative but in 1950 Gold Medal paid a
typical advance of $3,000. That equates to about $25,000 in today's money,
when the average advance is around $5,000.
Al
----- Original Message -----
From: "James Michael Rogers" <jeddak5@cox.net>
>I doubt that the hard drinking helped many of Thomson's books, but I think
>the erratic quality stems primarily from the fact that he really had to
>churn the stuff out to make a living with the low advances of the paperback
>originals.
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