Unexpected Envelopes

[hrj]

It's always a delight to get one of those little glassine-windowed envelopes that has the unmistakable look of a royalty check. (Not quite as delightful as getting one of those envelopes that has the unmistakable look of a contract, but I don't happen to have any submissions out at the moment.) It seems the Sword & Sorceress series is now appearing in Italian translation. I guess I'll have to try to track down a copy for my collection. (The check only lists volume 12 at the moment.)

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[patsmor.livejournal.com]

Our contracts are slippery, too -- we get a high percentage of the fee that our publisher gets for the rights to publish the book in translation, and then nothing else until it reaches some weird number of copies sold in that language.

True enough, I wasn't thinking short stories, I was thinking "our" books, for which we paid the various contributors out of our advances rather than a royalty. So far, they've made more than we have on the most recent one, I think.