Author: Elly Blue

What the Heck Are Compound Royalties?

February 27, 2025 by Elly Blue

Help us by filling out the survey at the end of this post. We’ll nerd out about it and love you forever. One of the main reasons why we built WorkingLit is to make royalty time suck less. Paying royalties is one of the more complicated tasks on a publisher’s plate, and we wanted to … Read more

A WorkingLit Origin Story

December 30, 2024 by Elly Blue

Hi everyone, this is Elly. Ten years ago, on December 20, 2014, I sent an email to Microcosm Publishing‘s longtime programmer Nate Beaty with the subject line “Hello! And some SEO stuff.” This was my first week at Microcosm, with the newly minted title of marketing director. Absolutely nobody had told me to take over … Read more