Author Advance Survey
This one is a bit old, but still worth passing along.
Being a numbers man, I can’t say that spending two years writing a book for a $5,000 advance sounds all that thrilling. Instead, we should all get degrees in computer game design, where the average computer game artist makes $42,500 3 years out, the average computer game programmer makes $54,300 3 years out and top artists will pull in over $200,000.
Still, the sad news is that long fiction _still_ pays better than the short fiction market, word for word, after you take into account acceptance rates.
Best regards,
Alan