Yeah, the math really adds up. I guess Fatrick must be in the lucky top 25% of authors. Weird, though, because no one talks about his books ever. He gets a twitter mention once a month, that's about it.
"I've been wearing the same shirt for three days because I don't have enough quarters to both park and run a washing machine until I get paid Wednesday"
If I were to guess, he'd pretend his success was recent, within the last few years. It's possible, I suppose, since he was technically viral in 2017. It's possible 100,000 books of his were sold in a year. Seems a bit of a stretch, considers there crickets when it comes to books, but I suppose it's possible that he sold hundreds of thousands of copies but less than a hundred people left Amazon reviews, seems unlikely but technically possible.
Even if it did happen, and that's still a big if, it would clearly be a one-time occurance. He no longer has a Twitter presence, and despite his best efforts has not even come close to becoming viral again. So if you did make six figures, fat boy, I hope you invested it.
His wife makes a majority of the money I'd wager, and his insurance job makes up the rest to get them to 100k which is not some accomplishment for two grown people.
The comforting part is the sense of growing resentment his wife is feeling at paying for him to cavort around Europe bombing at open mic nights and taking selfies.
I can only imagine someone gets sick awfully fast of being the person paying all the bills while their spouse acts like a rich bigshot. His obsession with public validation is going to cost him another wife.
Wow, authors get jewed hardcore. 8 percent on the first 150,000 books when the average book only sells a few hundred in its first year and less than 5000 in its lifetime? Anthony could have sold 100,000 books and it wouldn't have made him shit. He wasn't getting industry standard, no way, his book was glorified vanity printing. He also had multiple ghost writers and Norton getting a cut. 5 percent of 3000 books, max. He used to lose money like that on a hand of blackjack.
If he was getting anywhere near the kind of traffic that would put him over a just for selling books oh, I would think his review traffic would reflect that. He doesn't even have enough critical reviews to put one on the cover of his shitty books. He has to point to reviews from other authors, because no one outside of his industry will even throw him a bone apparently.
There is absolutely no way he's sold enough books to make that kind of money. /u/BeerCanThick figures Patrick would have to have sold ~100,000 books to be making six figures. This site keeps a list of all-time science fiction book sales. It lists 369 authors who've sold between 20,000 and 600,000,000 books. Fatrick isn't even on the list. He's not even in the top 369 science fiction authors.
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1 FrankWant 2019-04-24
Yeah, the math really adds up. I guess Fatrick must be in the lucky top 25% of authors. Weird, though, because no one talks about his books ever. He gets a twitter mention once a month, that's about it.
1 JerkStoreJ 2019-04-24
Someone needs to tell him that the cents don’t count as two of the “figures”
1 fawwkyeah 2019-04-24
His wife makes six figures a year, he makes maybe 5% of that
1 late_50s_why 2019-04-24
Just like Joe mataesse
1 OkaySeriouslyBro 2019-04-24
"I've been wearing the same shirt for three days because I don't have enough quarters to both park and run a washing machine until I get paid Wednesday"
https://www.reddit.com/r/standupshots/comments/3cxqep/forced_perspective/
Really begs the question:
Is Patrick a 6-figure earner masquerading as a broke schlub in his comedy routine?
Or is he a broke schlub masquerading as a 6-figure earner when he talks about himself on the internet?
1 FrankWant 2019-04-24
If I were to guess, he'd pretend his success was recent, within the last few years. It's possible, I suppose, since he was technically viral in 2017. It's possible 100,000 books of his were sold in a year. Seems a bit of a stretch, considers there crickets when it comes to books, but I suppose it's possible that he sold hundreds of thousands of copies but less than a hundred people left Amazon reviews, seems unlikely but technically possible.
Even if it did happen, and that's still a big if, it would clearly be a one-time occurance. He no longer has a Twitter presence, and despite his best efforts has not even come close to becoming viral again. So if you did make six figures, fat boy, I hope you invested it.
1 MonsignorScurrility 2019-04-24
His wife makes a majority of the money I'd wager, and his insurance job makes up the rest to get them to 100k which is not some accomplishment for two grown people.
1 ShiftyMcGrifter 2019-04-24
Three years ago:
"You come off as petulant and very unsympathetic."
"You're kinda coming off like a douchebag in the comments."
Even those standupshot homos hate him
1 literalotherkin 2019-04-24
The comforting part is the sense of growing resentment his wife is feeling at paying for him to cavort around Europe bombing at open mic nights and taking selfies.
1 FrankWant 2019-04-24
I can only imagine someone gets sick awfully fast of being the person paying all the bills while their spouse acts like a rich bigshot. His obsession with public validation is going to cost him another wife.
1 JerkStoreJ 2019-04-24
The Authors Guild’s 2018 Author Income Survey, the largest survey of writing-related earnings by American authors ever conducted finds incomes falling to historic lows to a median of $6,080 in 2017, down 42 percent from 2009.
AYYYYY NAYYYYYY!
1 BeerCanThick 2019-04-24
Panera employees are 3 times wealthier than authors. When's the last time you heard of a starving Panera worker? Think about it.
1 BeerCanThick 2019-04-24
Wow, authors get jewed hardcore. 8 percent on the first 150,000 books when the average book only sells a few hundred in its first year and less than 5000 in its lifetime? Anthony could have sold 100,000 books and it wouldn't have made him shit. He wasn't getting industry standard, no way, his book was glorified vanity printing. He also had multiple ghost writers and Norton getting a cut. 5 percent of 3000 books, max. He used to lose money like that on a hand of blackjack.
1 RoliMosimann 2019-04-24
If he was getting anywhere near the kind of traffic that would put him over a just for selling books oh, I would think his review traffic would reflect that. He doesn't even have enough critical reviews to put one on the cover of his shitty books. He has to point to reviews from other authors, because no one outside of his industry will even throw him a bone apparently.
1 Tom_Stall 2019-04-24
He counts the figures after the decimal place: $1,014.52 is what he made in 2018. That's 6 figures, child.
1 D0WhatN0w 2019-04-24
What you want me to do math and shit? Break it down bitch
1 FrankWant 2019-04-24
It basically says that he likes dick.
1 D0WhatN0w 2019-04-24
yep umhum that math checks out thank you
1 Fatty_Pneumonia 2019-04-24
There is absolutely no way he's sold enough books to make that kind of money. /u/BeerCanThick figures Patrick would have to have sold ~100,000 books to be making six figures. This site keeps a list of all-time science fiction book sales. It lists 369 authors who've sold between 20,000 and 600,000,000 books. Fatrick isn't even on the list. He's not even in the top 369 science fiction authors.
1 PFCBloodFart 2019-04-24
Yeah as a schlubby shit writer myself I can definitely say his wife is the one pulling in the cash
1 GinFoss 2019-04-24
if each copy sold for $40,000 i think he could have easily made it, child
did you think of that, sweetie?