John Scalzi, author of Redshirts, which is being adapted for television, has scored a ten-year deal with Tor Books for thirteen new books.
The executive editor at Tor said that while Scalzi hasn’t had a top-of-the-list bestselling book, “One of the reactions of people reading a John Scalzi novel is that people go out and buy all the other Scalzi novels.”
I’ve been offered half his total deal for a single book, turned it down, and then quadrupled the offer on my own within two years. On that single book. Out of the 13 books he writes, one will go viral. That’s his $20,000,000 book. Except, it’ll be a $4,000,000 book now.
– Hugh Howey
Doesn’t seem like it’s so great a deal.