One of the strategies I’ve used to get initial offers up for my authors of color (so I’m able to negotiate up from something not insulting) is to tell editors very frankly that money is the primary factor in who we’re going to go with #publishingpaidme
A lot of (well-meaning) editors will (rightly) assume that a POC will often choose a house based on safety (which often means who will be the least racist), but it really does change the game to walk in demanding dignity AND to get paid like a white author does #publishingpaidme
I think a lot of publishing higher-ups think that their woke associate editors are all a POC writer deserves, so they don’t authorize high advances. But if you give that editor a monetary requirement? That’s when you really see advances. #PublishingPaidMe
Note that I don’t need to tell editors my white authors want to be paid, because of *course* they do! Everyone wants to be paid! But for some reason, we have to *say* it, and *ask* for it, for authors of color.
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