A nice holiday: Work for Hire? Royalties? Advance?

New blogger Lynn Scanlon has recently stirred up the pot with her post about advances and flat-fee work for book projects. MediaBistro has been all over the controversy with comments and criticism coming in from all directions. .... "A loan is money given to you so that later, you pay it back." Bestselling author Tess Gerritsen provides further clarification: "It's NOT a loan (at least, it isn't in any of my contracts). It's money I get to keep, even if only ten copies ...