Sentences with phrase «fiction publishing contracts»

2... Fiction publishing contracts have become far, far too advanced for a normal English graduate to handle.

Fiction agents of this period knew the fiction publishing contracts of the time and were able to help writers with those contracts.

Not exact matches

Major houses do publish fiction — even first novels by unknown writers — but consider the risk involved and the competition for those contracts.

With literary fiction, there's an expectation of publishing short pieces in journals etc before a first book contract.

I do not know what will happen in the future, and I understand how authors are being cheated under current e-book contracts, however, I do not read, nor do I plan to publish the type of fiction that does well self - published (romance, science fiction, horror, dystopian, paranormal).

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Originally, I had some of my short stories (flash fiction and longer short stories) published in various anthologies in a more traditional way (write - > slush pile - > accept or reject - > contract - > payment - > promotion).

The So You Think You Can Write competition offers aspiring writers in Canada, the US, the UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa the chance to win a publishing contract from Harlequin, one of the world's leading publishers of romance and women's fiction.

Once the top three finalists in each genre are announced, those authors are actually awarded publishing packages from CreateSpace and the overall winners in fiction and young adult fiction are awarded a contract with a $ 15,000 advance with Penguin Group (USA).

I have few hours in each day for marketing and would much rather write fiction with a publishing contract than without one.

The publishing contracts for Hydra, Alibi, Loveswept, and Flirt, each representing different genre fiction, were so limiting to authors, it is downright insulting that they came from a big - name NYC publishing house.

Keep in mind that the «deep discount» clause usually kicks in at 51 % for books contracted prior to 2011 or so... and that trade nonfiction (which actually drives this whole conversation — trade fiction is the flea on the tail of the dog, at least insofar as the money in book publishing goes, and is the source of every default in publishing) has been much slower to raise that trigger point.

Whether a non-fiction print edition from a major publishing house or a genre fiction ebook from a self - published author, contracting the services of a group like MethodApps can easily provide the extra push needed to market a book, especially if the app is sold or distributed in the same sales channel as the book and can therefore be bought at the time of the book purchase.

Starting January 14, self - published authors can enter the contest in one of five categories — general fiction, mystery / thriller, romance, science fiction / fantasy / horror, and young adult fiction — for the chance to win a publishing contract with Amazon Ppublishing contract with Amazon PublishingPublishing.

Members in good standing of RMFW who are published or re-released or under contract with an advance of $ 250 or more in novel - length fiction by an approved commercial publisher meet the criteria for PAL membership.

Not only do I have a project I originally started with them, Fiction Vortex has also contracted with me to release my very first novel - length work, the short - story - novel that started my professional writing journey, which created the world of Iric, Sparrow, Faline, and many of the other characters you have seen here or in my published stories.

Pulp fiction was where authors started out because it paid less than «traditional» markets (they were mostly short stories), but with indie novels, I think (some) authors are making more money than comparable traditional publishing contracts (and I see some trad - pub authors supplementing their income with self - pub, which is also similar to some of the pulp fiction writers of the past).

Again, these self - publishing channels don't seem to be the go - to place for publishers to find contract - worthy literary fiction and narrative nonfiction (the latter of which is Friedman's preferred reading).

Starting January 14, authors can enter the contest in one of five categories — general fiction, mystery / thriller, romance, science fiction / fantasy / horror, and young adult fiction — for the chance to win a publishing contract with Amazon Ppublishing contract with Amazon PublishingPublishing.

A frequent #FutureChat participant, the self - publishing historical fiction author Jane Steen, tweeted that she was inspired by Friday's chat to write Why Indie Authors Should Support the Call for Fairer Publishing publishing historical fiction author Jane Steen, tweeted that she was inspired by Friday's chat to write Why Indie Authors Should Support the Call for Fairer Publishing Publishing Contracts.

It's true that most professional tie - in and franchise fiction is published under work - for - hire contracts, yes (including, per the present discussion, Vampire Diaries), although I know of at least one genre - savvy attorney who argues that the work - for - hire framework is actually legally inappropriate for genre fiction.

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And I still hold out hope that traditional publishing will adapt to more avenues of competition from self - published authors (beyond merely contracting with those authors or mining fan fiction communities).

Meanwhile, some authors are making millions by self - publishing multiple inexpensive e-books: Amanda Hocking became famous in the industry over the past six months for making over $ 2 million by self - publishing a dozen fiction books for younger readers, and recently signed a hefty contract with an existing publisher based on that success.

Eisler, who writes really good spy fiction, sees the New York publishing houses to be in a death spiral and, recently, turned down a $ 500,000 contract to self - publish.

Even though it was a small publisher who gave me my first fiction contract (and all my subsequent contracts until I began writing for Kindle Worlds), it didn't feel like traditional publishing to me.

For fiction... I've actually signed contracts I wish I'd turned down, but not to self publish.

The agent helps shape the proposal (so that it is clear how the proposed work is different from and better than the competition) or work of fiction, finds a publisher, negotiates the contract, sells subsidiary rights to the work, intervenes when there is a controversy, whether it be over an editorial question or the publisher's promotion plans, weighs in with an opinion (e.g., the book cover), monitors the publishing process and steers the author's career, book by book.

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Alia is also an award - winning science fiction / fantasy author and has represented other authors in the negotiation of their publishing contracts.

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