Years ago, when I told my agent that I had written a book, she said to me: "Hey, if you want eight hundred dollars, I'll give you eight hundred dollars."
But I published it anyway—and a second one, in fact—and though she was wrong in the specifics, she got the general gist of the compensation right. Put it this way: both books got a nice reception, but neither one gave me any tax trouble.
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