White writers also joined in, revealing how lucrative their own book deals were as a means to highlight the institutional prejudice of the publishing industry - an industry in which white people make up 89% of traditionally published authors and 85% of publishers and editors, according to The New York Times. The hashtag #PublishingPaidMe went viral as authors of color shared stories of shockingly low advances. Gay's revelation was part of an ongoing conversation regarding racial disparity in publishing, which helped to illuminate the major differences in how writers of color have been paid compared to their white counterparts. with fewer credits" got advances that were several times as much money for writing similar books. In the same tweet, she also noted that "white writers. Last summer, Roxane Gay stunned Twitter when she revealed that her bestselling book, Bad Feminist, received an advance of just $15,000.
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