24 February 2020
Publishers often keep extremely tight-lipped about just how much cash they've parted with when paying authors their advances. Pan MacmillanOne of largest fiction and non-fiction book publishers in UK; includes imprints of Pan, Picador and Macmillan Children’s Books, for instance, merely said they'd signed a ‘seven figure' book deal with Cassandra Clare in 2017 for her new adult series The Sword Catcher, publishing next year. From there we can extrapolate that she's scooped up at least a million pounds.