Matthew Cox

So that was a fun book to write.

So why did you sell?

I mean, are the other books traditionally published?

Yeah, mostly.

right yeah i um i got an advance for like 3 500 when i was in prison for one of the books that i wrote here and uh it was probably two years before i ever saw anybody you know it's it's like i want to say is it every six months every six months or something i get a check for you know as a check between me so the

Um, the literate, my, my literary agent takes a piece, could say a little more.

And then it's split 50, 50 between me and the author.

Well, I mean, I'm the author, but the subject, the other guy.

And so I get a check every once every six months or so for 50 bucks or $65 or $60 or, you know, but I remember that 3,500 bucks in prison was huge.

Yeah.

Right.

What, what was way more money was the, um,

I had gotten an article written about the book in Rolling Stone magazine and we optioned it.

So it's like every 18 months I get a check for like seven grand.

And that's still for like that's happened four different times.

I keep waiting for them to either make the movie.

Unlikely.

um or um stop optioning it but they keep optioning it they even i i think warner brothers optioned it three times and then they sent it to like mgm or somebody and then they optioned it for even more money which to me isn't much as well as an extra like 1100 bucks or something so but um yes it's great to get suddenly you just get a check they have my ex-wife's

address so every every 18 months i get a phone call saying you've got you got a letter here from some lawyer who and then she tells me the law i'm like oh that's a check yeah right on

I know.