Sentences with phrase «accepted by big publishers»

Now it's everywhere, everyone is doing it, and it's totally accepted by big publishers.

It has to hurt — you work hard for the «prestige» of being accepted by a big publisher, and then all of a sudden, some guy who revised his work using meetup.com groups and hired an editor off the internet, then used a cheap program to format it, and a cover off fiverr.com... he's making more money than you are.

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I looked to self - publishing after I accepted that, in the midst of the current publishing crisis, books like mine were not highly sought after by the big NY publishers.

I believe — know — that attitudes toward self - and indie - publishers has become more accepted over the decades when any author who was published by anything other than university presses and New York's Big Five were derisively called «vanity publishers.»

And authors who have been accepted by an agent and a big 5 publisher, even if they're no better than one who hasn't, have a substantial bookstore exposure, and supposedly professional help with covers, publicity, editing and proofing.

Because each new entry in the Call of Duty franchise pushed the previous year's game out, the publisher forged beyond the modern era with futuristic settings that were less accepted by the Call of Duty community, and bigger multiplayer modes (starting with the Left 4 Dead - like Zombies Mode featured in Call of Duty: World At War) that ultimately overshadowed anything players would find in the single - player campaign.