Sentences with phrase «about trad pub»

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

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.

Not exact matches

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.

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

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

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.

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).

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.

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 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.

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

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.

And it doean't matter whose fault it is — the publisher is invisible to the reader (as many a trad pub author who's gotten complaints about covers or copyediting can attest.)

Because thinking about it now, Amazon should have gamed out the possibility that Trad Pub goes under when BN does.

I think this kind of freedom is what I love most about self - publishing, and it's equally open to trad - pub authors like Kate above (assuming you don't have a non-compete clause in your contract) as it is to self - published authors.

Now, you Sharks - and - Jets squabblers can keep doing the Beat It knife dance on message boards (aka Thunderdome) about how much better Self - Pub is over Trad - Pub, and vice versa.

p.s. I'll have to think about doing that post on the sweat equity that goes into marketing self - pub vs. trad pub.

Trad pub is about the bottom line, because it has to be.

It's not just having to arrange for your own editing via the trad publishing route — when I read arguments against self - pubbing, I always hear about how hard it is to market your books and find your readers.

Lawyer David Vandagriff, who runs The Passive Voice and who comments using the handle Passive Guy, said it was «interesting how little many of these big - selling trad pub authors understand about the book business», claiming that this came from «listening to what their publishers and agents tell them».

Heather, the thing you are overlooking in trad pubbed VS self pubbed are the indies like me who hire a professional team and follow the good parts about the NY model.