In January of 2005 I posted a set of simple forms for people at my website to submit data about their novel advances to me in order to put together a survey on what advances were being given out in the field of SF/F.

I originally meant to update the article once per year, but was using a cobbled together excel spreadsheet and email. I’ve not sunk the time in to create an online database that will collect and store the results for me. I will be collecting information about novel advances and information once again to create a 2007 Advance Survey for the SF/F field. Your information is private and anonymous, held only by me (Tobias Buckell), with the end result being a general overview and look at the averages and trends of the data submitted to me.

To participate, we are gathering the data slightly differently this year.

I’m asking for you to submit your novels sales and info for each novel into the data entry field. This should give us more overall data about novel advances, as well as allow for more data analysis.

For those of you with incredibly hale and hearty careers I understand that will mean a lot of data entry, so I will understand if you then chose only to input your first sale and your latest sale!

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Add your novels to the database!

-Author Advances article 1.0 (February, 2005)

-Author Advances article 2.0 (October, 2005)