A typical publishing run of 400,000 copies resulted in the payment of $4000 for the author. Authors were paid between $200 and $500 in advance and then royalties of 1 cent per copy on the initial print order. Marijane Meaker was making $40 a week as a clerk at Fawcett Publishers when she approached Dick Caroll about publishing a story (eventually published as Spring Fire). Authors such as Marijane Meaker, Valerie Taylor, Sally Singer and Yvonne MacManus were employed in publishing firms as clerks before they were able to break through as editors and published authors. In contrast, the lesbian and bisexual authors of the paperback originals published in the 1950s and early 1960s were from humbler backgrounds. Lesbian authors from earlier eras tended to be from well-connected families.
When Women's Barracks became a best seller, publishers reissued older books with lesbian content from the 1930s such as those by Anna Elisabet Weirauch and Gale Wilhelm. The majority of the writers who penned lesbian pulp fiction were men, but there were a few lesbian and bisexual women who were able to bring their stories to the attention of publishers.
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