Hybrid writers do come out pretty well on the chart.
Not exact matches
«The Rider» Technically speaking, «The Rider» doesn't open until April 2018, but I've already cried my way through Chinese - born
writer - director Chloé Zhao's deeply humanistic docu - fiction
hybrid twice (it won top honors in Cannes» Directors» Fortnight section and at the Reykjavik Film Festival) and was duly impressed when the Film Independent Spirit Awards nominated it for best picture.
Traditional publishers claim support in promotion, but every
hybrid writer knows that a publisher
does no promotion anymore for anyone other than mega-bestsellers.
A lot of
writers I know are
hybrid writers, going both ways, which is also proving dangerous for traditional publishers, since a
writer doing that has clear, clear, scary - clear comparisons between a book going traditional and a book going indie.
upport in promotion, but every
hybrid writer knows that a publisher
does no promotion anymore for anyone other than mega-bestsellers.
All we wanted to
do was create a long list of the things that
writers should consider before publishing a book, things they needed to know if they were going to self - publish or if they were courting a traditional or
hybrid publisher.
One nice thing that I didn't mention is that authors don't have to necessarily to
do one or the other — the
hybrid route has been a very exciting, and lucrative, option for so many
writers.
These can be the most frustrating «
hybrids» of all, since they might be identifying themselves primarily as a traditional publisher and be listed in market guides such as
Writer's Market, but could use that as a bait - and - switch: Oh, sorry, your work doesn't meet our editorial needs for our traditional publishing operation, but would you like to pay for our
hybrid publishing [or self - publishing] service?
All self - publishers (and, no, I
do not include
hybrid writers with proved reputations in traditional publishing in that condemnation)
do is push readers back to familiar territory because book discovery is too exhausting and depressing.
Hybrid authors may be
doing better, but is that because they're more experienced
writers?
The input of 5,000 self - published, traditionally published, and
hybrid authors provided information useful to the publishing industry (which, for some reason,
does not already understand what
writers want).
Do you think that, except for über bestselling authors, all traditionally inclined
writers will eventually want to embrace the
hybrid model and self - publish some of their work?
Ford Canada has a media program where they lend cars out to
writers; I don't drive a lot (and our car guy Mike was too far away) but had never been in a
hybrid so took them up on their offer of a 2008 Escape
hybrid.