Quote: Book News, Friday, 3 Oct 2008 00:36The $300m JK Rowling pulled in over the last year will make sickening reading for the majority of authors who are struggling to earn a living.
Rowling made $571 a minute between June 1 2007 and June 1 2008, according to Forbes's ranking of the world's best paid authors, thanks to last July's publication of the final novel detailing the adventures of her boy wizard, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. The book has sold around 44m copies since publication, including 15m in its first 24 hours on sale, said Forbes.
Labour party supporter Rowling made a whopping six times more than second best paid author James Patterson, whose not-so-paltry $50m was drummed up through a combination of thrillers, romance and children's books. Patterson is now publishing up to eight books a year thanks to an army of "writing partners", and is also
View complete guardian article Well, good for her. I've been struggling to get my writing noticed for the past 12 years, without success, but I am very very pleased for Ms Rowling. She deserves all the success and it is great to see a writer with such a high profile, as often us poor scribes are shunned by people who'd rather see or read about D-list morons from Big Brother and their ilk
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JK Rowling earns six times more than nearest rival
03 Oct 2008, 00:36
