Not exact matches
You are asking people to pay for your writing, so it needs to be
at least as good as a
traditionally published
book, if not better, and worth every penny or cent!
If you
traditionally publish with the big publishing houses,
at the very
least you should get a well designed, well edited
book.
I know many authors who want to
traditionally publish their first couple of
books to build up a name for themselves and then transition to self - publishing for
at least some of their later work.
Regular Membership:
Traditionally published authors with
at least 1 published
book in the U.S.; self - published authors who have made
at least $ 5,000 in the past 18 months from their writing; and freelance writers who have published 3 + pieces or made $ 5,000 in the past 18 months.
Regular Membership is a voting category open to
traditionally published authors with
at least one
book published in the U.S., self - published authors who have made
at least $ 5,000 in the past 18 months from their writing, and freelance writers who have published
at least three pieces in publications with editorial oversight (print or online) or who have made $ 5,000 in the past 18 months.
I hate to tell you this because of the myth you are sort of asking about, but in the 106
traditionally published
books I did (my last count, I keep finding more),
at least five I know of had NO ONE in New York even read it.
I don't know I am not one to say I will
traditionally publish or self - publish - or
at least only use one to publish a
book.
At least 3 more
books out, of whatever lengths they end up being, though I have no idea whether any of them will be self - published or
traditionally published.
Most websites of
traditionally published authors do carry longer bio material on their «about the author» page - more
at least than usually appears in a print
book.
For every crappy
book traditionally published, there are
at least 100 times that number that were rejected and therefore never inflicted on the public.
If 95 percent of self - published
books are gibberish and 5 percent are honestly good
books, while 5 percent of
traditionally published
books are unreadable and 95 percent are
at least competent, this does not mean that «basically there is no quality difference between them.»
In fact, I've reduced the number of traditional
books I write per year after discovering that
at least 80 % of my earnings came from my independent
books, while 80 % of my time went to writing my
traditionally published
books.
It's an understood truth in the publishing industry that every author — indie or
traditionally published — is going to have to take on
at least some responsibility for his own
book promotion.
I still remember getting Encrypted reviewed
at The Fantasy
Book Critic, a big site that usually sticks to
traditionally published stuff (or
at least it did back then) and that I got a nice boost in sales that February.
Her first 5
books were
traditionally published, and she wanted a production
at least as good as those.
So, by this comment, it is probably safe to say that the article's author doesn't think Nora Roberts or James Patterson or any number of other
traditionally published authors are good authors because they write
at least four
books a year.
The data shows that the e-book market for
traditionally published digital
books is much bigger than previously thought, with estimates suggesting that a total number of 65 million e-
books were sold in 2012, representing a value of about # 200m —
at least double what it was in 2011 in volume terms more than double.
Lastly,
traditionally book sales are relatively flat for 46 weeks of the year with only a couple of minor spikes in sales —
at least in the retail
book industry.
So I can discard the pompous and self - important (Franzen's Freedom comes to mind immediately) and the pedestrian (Nicholas Sparks) without spending any money.What I will say about most
traditionally published
books is that the author or editor
at least ran the manuscript through a rudimentary spell / grammar checker before publishing it.
If you want a ghost to write a
book to establish your expertise, expand your outreach and grow your business, you should be looking for someone who has written
at least two
books that have been
traditionally published.
My friends who are
traditionally published are not selling that well and had to wait
at least 18 months for their
books to come out once they were accepted for publication.
Or... the shift could be due,
at least in part, to the gradual reduction in average Amazon.com print
book discounts on
traditionally - published Hardcovers and Paperbacks — a factor which could be driving format - agnostic fans of those authors back toward ebook editions.
So from a
traditionally - published author's standpoint, when he or she is looking
at royalty statements, each lost $ 1 of consumer ebook purchases needs to be replaced by
at least $ 1.70 in consumer print
book purchases, or that author's total royalties will still shrink.
Spertus took real
books and made fake covers for them, often incorporating imagery and themes from within the
books themselves, but altering them with subtle humor and a conceptual rigor that made the texts appear not as art or beautiful objects, but as engaging reading material (what any
book,
at least traditionally, is meant for).