In the last few years, it's been harder to find a publisher, but one just took me on, paid me a modestly reasonable advance so that's encouraging for me."3 1 Benoît Allaire, Statistiques en bref, no. ###>Mais j'en ai trouvé un qui m'a versé une avance, modeste, mais raisonnable et je trouve ça très encourageant 3.