Sentences with phrase «approached by publishing houses»

I am a member of NetGalley and have been approached by publishing houses for my quality reviews.

Not exact matches

Contrast this with your approach to House of Lords reform, where a draft bill will be published before the end of the year, which will then be subject to full pre-legislative scrutiny by a joint select committee over several months before a bill is formally presented to Parliament.

I initially decided to publish with Lulu and was then approached by an agent from a minor house.

While contributing to post-article discussions, I stumbled on a fascinating article by David Vinjamuri (contributor to Forbes Magazine) that attempted to provide an even - handed approach to the state of the publishing industry — and didn't do a too bad job of it, although by its very nature, left out some elements, like the small and middle sized publishing houses, and their topology being different from the larger companies.

Then there are those who began their authorship career as independent authors who gained enough of a following that they were approached and signed by a publishing house (Hugh Howey is one of the most well - known examples of the latter.)

I developed this approach after buying a number of very popular books at high prices from the big publishing houses and feeling it was like The Emperor's New Clothes — the books were horrible by standards of literature, but had impossibly great reviews.

The approach was successful enough that Pratt earned more than he would have had the book been published by Random House.

This is the approach taken by Barry Eisler, a spy novelist who famously walked away from a $ 500k contract from a legacy publishing house to self - publish.

Each time you are approached by influential representatives from publishing houses to make exclusive deals for your book, give it some thought and dig up the blogosphere what you deserve to get rather than what you must accept.

Now, the listing has since been pulled from Amazon, but thanks to PCGamesN we know it'll be published by Random House, and will be «a peek behind the curtain of Rockstar Games and its intensely guarded approach to the creation of the lush, Old West open - world gameplay».