{"id":378559,"date":"2026-04-02T17:08:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T17:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/378559\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T17:08:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T17:08:13","slug":"i-thought-i-would-get-e5000-a-month-off-work-and-then-id-go-back-and-that-would-be-it-how-much-do-authors-really-make","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/378559\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I thought I would get \u20ac5,000, a month off work, and then I\u2019d go back and that would be it\u2019 \u2013 how much do authors really make?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">From advances to leaves of absence from the day job, writers\u2019 income is anything but straightforward\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Liz Nugent photographed with her books. Photo: Frank McGrath\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/ir 91512060 (2).jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Liz Nugent photographed with her books. Photo: Frank McGrath<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">There\u2019s a scenario most aspiring writers are likely to have fantasised about. They submit a stellar idea to a literary agent, who in turn contacts one of the \u2018big four\u2019 publishing houses. Everyone loves it and, after a bidding war, one lucky publisher immediately offers the plucky debut writer a six-figure sum on the spot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">But it\u2019s only ever a fantasy because it\u2019s based on a common misconception: that writers, especially those writing their first book, can make a lot of money with ease.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From advances to leaves of absence from the day job, writers\u2019 income is anything but straightforward Liz Nugent&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":378560,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[2334,93,61,60,6085,41816],"class_list":["post-378559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-artificial-intelligence-ai","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-rte","tag-saoirse-hanley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=378559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378559\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/378560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}