Never cared about 'personal brand.' I was lucky to get my start with someone who believed in doing good work. I don't remember any talk or pressure to build a brand. Thankfully, I have forgotten gigs off the quality of work, especially in the past few years.
Thanks for this post. Even celebrity writers can't get paid properly when $35 million must go to Harry for a 4-book deal. Then, to add insult to injury, myopic Harry actually called Graceland a "badgers' sett," apparently oblivious to the 100 years of subsistence poverty the South had to endure after it lost the Civil War, while the publisher paid Lisa Presley just $500,000 for her book advance on personal insights into her father and husband, the King of Rock & Roll and the King of Pop, a book she never finished. She died 2 days after Spare was released, insuring that the vastly different sizes of their book advances would not be lost on anyone.
Never cared about 'personal brand.' I was lucky to get my start with someone who believed in doing good work. I don't remember any talk or pressure to build a brand. Thankfully, I have forgotten gigs off the quality of work, especially in the past few years.
Thanks for this post. Even celebrity writers can't get paid properly when $35 million must go to Harry for a 4-book deal. Then, to add insult to injury, myopic Harry actually called Graceland a "badgers' sett," apparently oblivious to the 100 years of subsistence poverty the South had to endure after it lost the Civil War, while the publisher paid Lisa Presley just $500,000 for her book advance on personal insights into her father and husband, the King of Rock & Roll and the King of Pop, a book she never finished. She died 2 days after Spare was released, insuring that the vastly different sizes of their book advances would not be lost on anyone.