[mojoe]

That's really cool! Yes, it's always been amazing to me how many people will respond helpfully to a random cold email.

And well-known authors are similar to other artists in the fact that they have steep rates for commissions. For instance, https://clarkesworldmagazine.com pays a flat reasonable rate of 14 cents per word ($840 for a 6k word story). I've talked to well-known authors who would charge $5/word for that same story on commission ($30k)

[jacquesm]

No programmer would get out of bed for that kind of money!

[mojoe]

Many authors can do a short story per week, I would definitely get out of bed for $30k/week