I’ve been involved in English Language Teaching for more than fifty years and a published author of ELT materials since I was 23, when I wrote and recorded an album of ‘teaching songs’ called Mister Monday.
Since then, I’ve written or co-written about thirty ELT titles, including a dozen series of course books. My UK publishers include Oxford University Press, Macmillan and Cengage. I’ve also been published locally in Spain, Germany, Poland, China and Indonesia. I was fortunate to be writing at a time when paying royalties for course material was the norm, and one of the reasons I want to become a Committee member is to campaign on behalf of new writers who are not offered this option.
I’m appalled that ELT publishers now consider royalties a thing of the past, their reason being the cost of the extras that are now integral parts of course material. I accept that this presents a short-term expense for them, but I also believe that publishers recoup these extra costs quite quickly when a course sells well, and contracts for new authors should offer a royalty some way down the line when these expenses have been met. 
Like most educational writers, I’m also bothered by the obvious elephant in the room, AI, and I’d like to be part of EWG discussions and research on this topic.