Ahoy, Ventorship passengers, including all you wonderful new folks who hopped aboard after reading this USA TODAY article about author pay! With all y’all coming here, we have officially hit the 1,000 subscriber mark on the Ventorship 🥳 That feels so freaking huge to me, and I just wanted to say thank you to each and every one of you, whether you’ve been here from the very beginning or just found out about this metaphorical cruise ship for writers a day or two ago.
So what’s the Ventorship about for all you new folks, and as a little reminder for the Venties who’ve been here a while: The Ventorship is a sporadic newsletter where writers at any stage of their journey (from just curious to pre-published to multi-pubbed) can write in to me anonymously (at heyjasonjune@gmail.com with the subject VENTORSHIP) and get anything writing/publishing related off their chest. I’ll give you my feedback in a post, and we’ll crowdsource author opinions in the comments section. The intent is to let you know you’re not alone in your frustrations or worries or celebrations when so much of the writing life entails being alone and often being a tad scared to ask questions straight out, whether those questions be about pay, or agent relationships, or editing processes, etc. etc. etc. If you want a look into what some of these posts have looked like in the past, try out these ones here, here, and here. We haven’t had an anonymous vent in a while, and I’m taking that as a good sign that we’ve got good support groups in our non-internet lives or have nothing to vent about, which is even better! But if ever there is something you want to run by the ship, feel free to write in.
Twice a year I also give a look into my royalty statements to try and demystify even a little bit what financial realities can look like for an author. Of course, these are just my sales figures, I write what most people call niche so no one will be blown away by these numbers, but I always think the more info that’s out there, the better. My Spring 2026 royalty deep dive should be posted sometime in May. Here are all the installments so far (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4).
That’s all for now, and welcome aboard again to all our newbies and established passengers alike. Here’s to riding the waves of the author seas together! ❤️
-JJ
No posts
Comments
Nothing yet. Say the first thing.
Sign in to join the conversation.