I especially enjoy working closely with authors, whether they're self - publishing, planning to find an agent, or are
already with a publishing house.
Not exact matches
When Delaine and I took on our first assignment — in Argentina — we found an
already well - established national church,
with a
publishing house, a seminary and other educational institutions run by capable administrators.
This year, we're
already seeing a whole lot of them
with the latest one coming from Nissan and French
publishing house L'Ecurie and INTERSECTION Magazine.
Many larger
publishing houses are closed to submissions,
with the exception of authors
already published by them, or those who are represented by agents.
Major
publishing houses were reneging on deals
with already signed authors; changing royalty payments from a percentage of the retail price to «net» of what was received.
I can see it
already: a
publishing culture in which the large
publishing houses don't even bother to employ editors who communicate
with agents and go through the slush pile.
The same holds true
with writing, especially when you're not pushed under the spotlight by the gargantuan marketing machine of a Big Five
publishing house — and that only if you're a best - seller
already.
Established in August 2011, Literary Agent Undercover has
already helped dozens of authors (in the United States and abroad) get the attention of literary agents and / or get book deal
with major
publishing houses.
The university has
already offered an MA in
Publishing, with its graduates going on to careers in international publishing and with major publishi
Publishing,
with its graduates going on to careers in international
publishing and with major publishi
publishing and
with major
publishingpublishing houses.
While the fear and loathing were
already well underway, the final straw in the coffin for Amazon's reputation in
publishing came with the creation of its own traditional publishing house, Amazon P
publishing came
with the creation of its own traditional
publishing house, Amazon P
publishing house, Amazon
PublishingPublishing.
Publisher's Weekly reports that Thomas Nelson's in -
house self -
publishing division Westbow Press has
already published 75 books since January of this year, and has 300 signed contracts
with writers.
From your position it's interesting, because you've
already established yourself for many years as an author working
with traditional
houses, your route to self -
publishing means that you
already have a name behind you.
But like the much heralded success of authors Amanda Hocking and John Locke, both of whom have each sold more than one million copies of their self -
published ebooks before going on to sign contracts
with major
publishing houses, Wilkinson is open to the idea of traditional
publishing and has
already heard from some print publishers, although he admits he didn't set out to be an author.
Something worth considering is that
with any big name author currently out there the work has
already been done for them on the branding and marketing front by the
publishing houses so it's easy to move the books, print or E, on that basis
already.
Or being picked up
with a mediocre advance and being dropped after a half - assed effort on the part of a
publishing house to market your new release that they have
already decided is not going to make money?
It can be very daunting having to compete
with large
publishing houses as well as
already successful and well - known authors.
Your efforts are really impressive, and you've
already beat the odds by going from self -
published to traditional
house with St. Martin's (no small fish).
Third, although traditional
publishing houses have editors and you have
already paid for one, the prestige of being accepted by them,
with the orchestra of copyeditors, cover artists, and marketing experts behind them to help you, will relieve you of a lot of the work for your next big project.
I am honored that Ellen took time from her merciless editing cycle to answer some of my questions for those of you hoping to
publish or
already published with a traditional
house.
I have spent the past three and a half months working as an ebooks assistant for an Oxford based Christian
publishing house producing books that aim to illuminate, detail, debate, commodify, beautify, and question the Christian faith in non-fiction and fiction offerings, and
with over 300 ebook titles
already selling on all major retailer / online portals.
Clearly Amazon is now throwing the gauntlet to the traditional
publishing houses, starting
with a writer who has
already carved out a name for himself by
publishing over a dozen books using Amazon's Digital Text Platform (in addition to his success in the traditional
publishing milieu).
Self -
published authors were
already grappling seriously
with print - on - demand, e-books and various pricing levels long before large
publishing houses even took digital
publishing seriously as a necessary part of their future businesses.