Sentences with phrase «about trad published»

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.

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

Not exact matches

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).

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.

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.

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).

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

I haven't had a chance to look at the contract yet but I get the feeling that this is one of those contract Kris Rusch and TPV warn authors about and is a prime example of why every author even considering signing a trad publishing contract needs to have an IP attorney vet it first.

My traditional - published experiences have been largely positive — working with Clive and the people at G.P. Putnam's was a great experience, and I've had about ten of my books bought by trad publishers in other countries, so that's exciting.

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.

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.

Lancashire / Cumbria borders UK About Blog Author of #historical fiction, ex costume designer, history, art and nature fan (currently both trad and indie published).

DEBORAH SWIFT Historical Novelist About - Author of #historical fiction, ex costume designer, history, art and nature fan (currently both trad and indie published)

Interestingly, once you have a huge platform, you may not NEED a trad published deal (you might make about the same money anyway, but you'd be selling a lot more books and getting more visibility with a traditional publisher, which is what I want).

Lancashire / Cumbria borders UK About Blog Author of #historical fiction, ex costume designer, history, art and nature fan (currently both trad and indie published).