An Honest Question… So figured I would try to answer it here. The question was how much of an advance would a writer need to get to make around 40K per year in traditional publishing when a $50,000 three book deal gets a writer between $4,700 and $9,000 plus per year. Again, the comparison from last night was nothing but bookstore sales, no major licensing, which traditional publishers would keep most of it anyway, unlike indie writers who get to keep it all. Well, the easy answer is just divide all that yearly amount from last night into $40,000 and then multiply it by $50,000 to get around a $350,000…