My Book Numbers VS Hilary Clinton's

Ha.

Hahahahahahahaha. Thought that'd would get your attention.

Billary released their income tax information, including 2007's, to the public. Since both of them are published authors, I was curious about their book income deets.

Hilary made $10,457,083 for two books: Senator Clinton's book income is comprised of earnings for Living History ($10,267,895), including an $8,000,000 advance, and It Takes a Village ($189,188).

President Clinton's book income is comprised of earnings for My Life ($23,280,525), including a $15,000,000 advance, and Giving ($6,300,000).

For those unfamiliar with terms, advance means money that's paid out immediately (or sometimes divided in stages of a book, but I doubt this is so with Billary) after signing the book contract. Just so you can make a comparison, most authors' advances fall between the $5000 to $10000 area. Then, they have to wait till the books earn out their advances before they see any royalties. Most authors have a printrun of 20,000-30,000, so with, let's say, a $5000 advance, said author will have to sell 10,000 books before she sees any kind of income. Let's just say that it is very hard to earn out an advance that is really high...like, let's say, $8,000,000. Heh heh. Doing some Saturday morning quick math, and without math genius RB around, Hilary's book sold, oh, about 2 million copies (2,000,000).

Sigh. I'm not greedy. I'd be happy at 500,000 copies. At 50 cents royalty per book, I can forget about roofing for a while, yes? And not scrounge around to make sure all the bills are paid before buying that air ticket to Pittsburgh, yes? (The ticket, btw, was so ridiculously priced, I had to get it. It's CHEAPER to fly than to drive there, can you believe it?)

Well, there you have it. There are no starving artists among the elite, not with an $8 million advance...heck, I could take off a whole year to write a book then, huh? ;-)

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Turbo Tax Moi

It's that time of the year that I'm hunkered down doing business taxes. It sucks the life out of life, I tell you, when you have to sort out coffee-stained and sun-lightened receipts (courtesy of a certain man) and then figure out where to put the numbers in which column. It also doesn't help when you know at the end of it, you have to write the powers-that-be a big fat cheque that will empty your bank account! Sucks, sucks, sucks.

So y'all will just have to bear with sporadic postings for the next few days. Usually, I entertain myself by looking at pictures of men. Any complaints? ;-P

As you can see, still on my Carlson Twins kick. I'm using this as my wallpaper for now but I switch back to my 300 one now and then. Gerard's manliness rules!

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Hey, ladies, it's Mammogram Month, so here is an important announcement:

Many women are anxious about mammograms, but there is no need to worry.By taking a few minutes each day for a week preceding the exam and doing the following exercises, you will be totally prepared for the test and best of all, you can do these simple exercises right in and around your home.

EXERCISE ONE:

Open your refrigerator door and insert one breast in door. Shut the door as hard as possible and lean on the door for good measure. Hold that position for five seconds. Repeat again in case the first time wasn't effective enough.

EXERCISE TWO:

Visit your garage at 3AM when the temperature of the cement floor is just perfect. Take off all your clothes and lie comfortably on the floor with one breast wedged under the rear tire of the car. Ask a friend to slowly back the car up until your breast is sufficiently flattened and chilled.Turn over and repeat with the other breast.

EXERCISE THREE:

Freeze two metal bookends overnight. Strip to the waist. Invite a stranger into the room. Press the bookends against one of your breasts. Smash the bookends together as hard as you can. Set up an appointment with the stranger to meet next year and do it again.

Heh, heh, YOU ARE TOTALLY PREPARED!

For those who have never experienced the wonders of mammograms, now you have something to look forward to.

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I'm looking forward to buying the first, in a long, LONG time, Silhouette contemporary-length story from my Goddess, La Linda Howard. It's in the Nocturne Line, titled Raintree: Inferno. I heard it's available for download from eharlequin already but I'm going to wait for the paperback. Has any of you read it yet? Opinions? What book are you looking forward to buying next?

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