Sentences with phrase «about trad»

I don't know about Trad published authors, but check out the latest Author Earnings Report that Hugh Howey is putting out to give you an idea of the market.

Since the basic premise of the assumption about trad published works is wrong, well, that makes it all the more difficult to swallow those sorts of reviews.

Thanks so much for doing this Hugh and Data Guru — my husband is a statistician and we've talked before about doing some kind of bigger data analysis, because I am always talking about the trad / indie / hybrid thing and he always says «case studies don't count.»

I second the points made by Ramez Naam about the trad pub income streams that aren't reflected here.

This isn't all about trad vs. indie.

The more I read about trad - pub, and the more unsatisfactory new releases I read from that system, the less I question its value.

Sometimes they» l fuss about the trad pub prices, but don't seem to realize why there is a price different in my series.

My work doesn't qualify for any awards; mystery conventions are all about the trad pubbed authors (whose work I love), but shut out the indies.

I've been indie from the beginning, and never thought about a Trad deal, but I see the logic of what you're considering.

I rarely comment on posts like this — I know very little about the trad - pubbed world:).

The only people who really make a noise about trad - vs self - publishing are those with a vested interest, and those opinions should be taken with a pinch of salt.

One thing that really concerns me about trad publishing is the idea your agent will read your blog.

Not exact matches

During an interview at the FlexJobs sponsored event, the TRaD Works Forum, Ken Matos talks about why work flexibility is important to workers today and how remote work improves performance management strategies.

You talk a lot about Roth IRAs but not Roth 401 (k) s. My company offers the option to give to either a Roth or Trad 401 (k) and I typically give $ 9K to each.

One of the recent arenas where we heard great quotes about work flexibility was at the TRaD Works Forum, a FlexJobs - sponsored event held in Washington, DC.

TRaD panel member Janice Petz, who is a senior talent acquisition partner at UnitedHealth Group, talked about the company's continuing journey offering flexible work, including remote options.

At the TRaD * Works Forum (* telecommuting, remote, and distributed) this year, we heard from companies like Microsoft, ADP, Dell, Xerox, and Cisco about how remote and flexible work has positively impacted their businesses.

When I first decided to become an independent author and self - publish after having gone the trad route with nonfiction and made a few attempts to go the trad route for fiction, I knew next - to - nothing about the social media circus I was about to join.

We asked her a bunch of questions about what she found in regard to author income, books on sale, and whether indie or trad publishing is more likely to get a person to a living wage (which she defined as the U.S. average of $ 32,000 a year).

She got so much buzz about her decision to turn down a trad pub contract to go indie, that everyone wanted to read or at least look at the book.

One of the things that struck me, and probably many others, about his report and its conclusions, is that self - pubbed titles tend to average higher review ratings than trad - pubbed books.

Kozlowski is the only person I know oblivious enough to include a graph of daily ebooks showing indie books making up nearly 50 % of the US ebook market, and then in the very next paragraph babble about them only being a «drop in the bucket» relative to the trad - published side.

You put out samples, you sell your work yourself, people like it, talk about it — the movers & shakers in the trad publishing industry aren't just sitting on their thumbs when they aren't reading; they're scanning the «net and seeing what people are saying about writers like you.

My first traditionally published novel, Transgression, only sold about 6,000 copies in its trad - pubbed edition.

I have no interest in or patience with stories whose plot or characters I do not care about, or those that display bad writing or poor editing (FAR too many, even from trad publishing houses).

I've been fielding emails for years from readers asking why that book was priced so high when the rest of the books in the series (this is the series that started out in trad pub and that is now self pub) ranged from free to about $ 4.99.

Elizabeth, I have learnt much from your post about «trad pub» and «self - pub,» especially since I'm working on my own fiction.

When you think about it, it makes sense: back when trad pub limited us to one book a year per author, there were still plenty of people who became fans of Terry Prachett, Mercedes Lackey, Patricia Briggs and David Weber.

I have people writing to me on Facebook and in email and talking to me in person about how much they love my books, and here I am envying the awards and the accolades, certain that a trad pub deal was the only way I could get them.

Joe speaks boldly about his dislike of the trad pub scene and why the ball is no longer all in the publisher's court.

Trad publishing has standardized length in the last few decades, but The Great Gatsby is only about 50K words.

However, we know they're elitists from things they've said in the past about self - published books being of lesser quality compared to trad pub books (how ironic that now trad pub authors are complaining more about their books having so many typos and problems when printed).

Especially those of us who have been with trad publishing for a while, where the decisions about this stuff were made by other people.

The promotion the trad pubs take care of is the catalog and sales force to get your books into the brick and mortar distribution channel, which indies don't worry about.

In trad publishing at least the gamble is clear — you put in the hours, you learn as much as you can about the business, and you hope.

But when I think about the NA I'd have missed covering if I only covered the trad - pubbed stuff, I'd have missed all but one of my five - star titles.

I write cozy historical mysteries, and had an agent for my first book who was enthusiastic about getting a trad publisher for it.

I get that I'm supposed to be more upset about this paid review service, but what Locke did doesn't look different to me than Kirkus Reviews (and, as you point out, other favor trades from trad pubbing that are entrenched and go unremarked.)

The majority of self - pubbed writers are not serious or realistic about it, and they would have been unlikely to have been successful in trad publishing either.

Because this is just what trad - pubbed authors probably thought about Amazon's launch of KDP.

I truly thinks it benefits us all to learn about self - pub and trad - pub methods.

If terms could be better for writers, then I think many of us would feel better about going with trad pub / indie pub.

Early last year I broke with the last of my trad publishers (albeit a small one) so I don't have to worry about that.

And on the quality issue, it's just a TINY bit unfair to go on and on about how bad most self published books are when just as many authors on the trad train suck just as much.

Now he is talking about selling for trad publishers.

So using that sales history, every trad publisher in NYC rushes about bringing out Historical vampire books...

I hope that the market forces you're talking about really do push trad publishing into being good guys.

My writer's group had a discussion about this last night, and no one's happy about it, even trad - pubbed authors.

Boo hoo, all the authors (trad pub) interviewed vilifying Amazon, talking about how Amazon is so big, mean, terrible, stealing money and food and possibly even sex from them.

When you have only about five to ten years to create a «writing career,» you have to get it done faster than the trad - pub route moves.