In 2005, author Tobias Buckell conducted a survey of author advances in science fiction and fantasy. He’d originally planned to make it an ongoing resource for authors, to see what was available and how they were doing, but was unable to do so. Now Buckell has announced that he’s “collecting information about novel advances and information once again to create a 2007 Advance Survey for the SF/F field.”
Buckell promises to keep identifying information secret, releasing only numbers and comparisons, but not authors’ names or book titles. He’s asking authors to submit their data on this page.
The results from his two previous surveys, February 2005 and October 2005 are available.