Sentences with phrase «agents and publishers receive»

When agents and publishers receive two manuscripts of equal quality, they frequently decide which one to take based on the author's platform.

Literary agents and publishers receive tens, sometimes hundreds of manuscripts a day.

Although your book may be great, every literary agent and publisher receives numerous proposals and manuscripts each year.

Not exact matches

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A prominent literary agent recently told me that unless an author receives a hefty advance of $ 100,000 or more most publishers will do virtually no promotion, leaving it to authors to create and exploit their own platforms via social media and networking connections, workshops and webcasts.

«Apple decided to offer the Publisher Defendants the opportunity to move from a wholesale model — where a publisher receives its designated wholesale price for each e-book and the retailer sets the retail price — to an agency model, where a publisher sets the retail price and the retailer sells the e-book as its agenPublisher Defendants the opportunity to move from a wholesale model — where a publisher receives its designated wholesale price for each e-book and the retailer sets the retail price — to an agency model, where a publisher sets the retail price and the retailer sells the e-book as its agenpublisher receives its designated wholesale price for each e-book and the retailer sets the retail price — to an agency model, where a publisher sets the retail price and the retailer sells the e-book as its agenpublisher sets the retail price and the retailer sells the e-book as its agent.»

While authors and agents have stood firm on their position that the standard rate of 25 % (which refers to the percentage of net profits authors receive on e-books sold) must change, publishers haven't budged.

Online Marketing for Busy Authors came out in April 2016 and has been receiving great reviews from authors, agents, and publishers.

After you have spent a year or more writing your book it can take another year or more to hire an agent, submit materials to traditional publishers, and receive limited responses (if any) due in part to the volume of materials publishers receive.

We just received a check from our publisher which was less than the stamp it cost to mail, and worse, our agent took 15 %.

Authors / publishers / agents receive 60 % of the list price on sales through major retailers and up to 85 % of net sales through the -LSB-...]

The feedback I received from the tutor and fellow students spurred me to carry on further work on the novel and to send it out to publishers and agents.

Readers sign up to receive a daily email alerting them to deals in categories that match their interests, while authors, publishers, and agents partner with them to reach the millions of book lovers who use their service.

Pitch Clients looking to place their work with agents and publishers have received query letters, book proposals, juvenile submission packets, and individual pieces like bios and synopses.

«It's really simple: without Amazon, and more specifically KDP Select, I would still be receiving rejection letters from agents and publishers.

«Big Pub basically runs its own monopoly over writers,» a commenter on a New York Times article retorted, and I received an email about the Amazon - Hachette clash in which the writer complained of «the impossibility of a non-NYC writer just getting his foot in the door without sleeping with professors, visiting authors, publishers; without an M.F.A.; or without publications in major magazines (100 percent of which are supplied by agents).

Literary agents and publishing consultants are featured only after we receive three letters of recommendation from publishers active on our database with whom they have worked.

Since I have been through the process (fire) of publishing a book, I want to reach out to writers working on a manuscript, and encourage them to push through the writers block, accept the enormous amount of time it will take you to work with an editor to make your manuscript the best it can be, and the gigantic amount of time it will take you to research, submit and wait to hear, if you ever do, from the publishers, small presses, and literary agents who received your submission.

After writing for countless hours, we then shake out our confidence and don it like a voluminous overcoat to protect us from the onslaught of rejections we receive from agents and publishers who tell us «no thanks».

This morning I received this note out of the blue from a new author at Smashwords: «As an author who has sent about a hundred query letters to agents and publishers only to be turned down by everyone, I want to say thank you so much for allowing me to realize a little piece of my dream.»

To give you a ballpark estimate, most agents and publishers will tell you that they receive between 1,000 - 2,000 query letters each month, or between 12,000 - 24,000 per year, and there are literally thousands of agents and publishers.

I spent about 40 years honing my craft and during that time never received a positive response from any agent or publisher.

I have an agent, have signed several excellent contracts, have received very nice advances for each of my books, and have found my publisher to be very «professional.»

EVERY CLIENT WE PITCHED received multiple invitations to submit their manuscripts to top publishers and agents!

Our site receives thousands of hits from foreign publishers and agents searching for unique titles.

When I self published my ebook instead, I immediately received so many amazing reviews, I started to realise that the agents and publishers were not going to stop me becoming an author.

Amazon authors also receive larger royalty rates, and as a self - publisher you don't have to pay an agent their 15 % of your profits for their services.

You will receive the contact information of ALL the visitors to our display and the follow up contact information for all the publishers, retailers and agents that request information about your book

Aspiring authors see this happening with increasing frequency and they're beginning to realise that a well received self published book can be a faster and easier way to get a publishers attention than that traditional path of spending months or years querying to get an agent, and then more months or years trying to sell something through the agent.

Under the agency model, book publishers set their own e-book prices and the retailer (agent) receives a commission.

Receiving and considering only work presented and pre-screened by Worthy Citizens (agents) means that publishers are building their business on the labor of folks that they refuse to deal with directly.

Literary agents receive the same powerful publishing, metadata management and aggregated sales reporting tools Smashwords offers publishers, yet agents are designated as agents, not publishers.

So that if the book's scale was small and / or received positive reviews, then a traditional agent / publisher wouldn't mind picking up the work since it can still make them money.

Before vanity presses took off and self - publishers started vying for niche markets, aspiring authors used to court agents and publishers, submit manuscripts, and keep their fingers crossed for months before receiving a response.

For the purpose of this article (as well as the checklist), the MLS, broker or agent providing the listing data is called the «provider»; the company receiving the data directly from the provider is called the «syndicator»; and the third party that receives the data from the syndicator is called the «publisher.»