Several authors were also inspired enough to share the complete history of their advances. There’s a reason for that, especially in the context of this moment.” Since the hashtag was first tweeted, hundreds of authors have been encouraged by McKinney’s movement and shared their salaries, who range from big names such as Roxane Gay and Matt Haig to smaller indie scribes. Let’s go.” She added that the movement is meant to highlight “the disparity between what’s paid to non-Black authors vs. Use the hashtag and share what you got for your books,” McKinney wrote. McKinney created the #PublishingPaidMe hashtag on June 6, which aims to hold publishing houses accountable for why black authors typically don’t receive the same advances as their white peers. As a means of exposing the book-advance imbalance of white and black authors, urban fantasy novelist L.L.
