Sentences with phrase «as midlist»

I suspect it's killing them, and as their midlist thins out they'll go ahead and die.

She branched out into a second pen name writing YA Fantasy, hit the USA Today bestseller list multiple times with each pen name (and without the backing of a publisher), sold over 300,000 copies of her books worldwide, and is now making a good living as a midlist author.

But as a midlist writer like me, or if you write mystery, romance, SF / F, YA (non-blockbuster YA... not Hunger Games / Divergent), then there's a limit to what you're getting back.

After decades of slow decline, as advances grow smaller, as sales concentrate more in the head, and as the midlist disappears, what was once somewhat possible — writing as a profession — is now unlikely, and is fast becoming impossible.

Who do you think of as midlist authors?

Not exact matches

Agents and their midlist or lower - profile authors are being pressured to sign such contracts right now as I type.

You sign a modern traditional contract as a beginning writer or low - level midlist writer, you must trust the publisher, a large corporation, to watch out for your interests for the life of your copyright.

``... for those countless midlist authors stuck with unconscionable contracts because they had no choice, and the multitude of authors kept out of the industry by gatekeepers such as yourself, it didn't work.

And honestly, as a life - long midlist writer, I find that normal.

There were genre writers on both sides of the dispute, but on the publishing side were huddled the biographers, urban historians, midlist novelists — that is, all the people who were able to eke out a living because publishers still paid advances, acting as a kind of local literary bank, in anticipation of future sales.

Those publishers have often started with midlist or backlist content, but as the concept and its compensation structure have become clear, some publishers are even placing their frontlist and bestselling titles in the models.

A lot of established traditionally - published midlist authors are seeing huge success (as well as increased income) by making their backlist available as self - published ebooks.

I've included debut and midlist authors trying to break into the top hundreds, as well as authors like Joanna Penn who already have a relatively huge platform and fanbase.

a focus on the far more reasonably priced and equally high - quality midlist and independent publishers (IPG, Lerner, Rosen, and many others), and the rising tide of quality self - published content (such as those available through Smashwords)

But it's getting more and more possible for midlist authors to find an audience of appreciative readers and make a living or at least pay some bills as self - published authors and it's because of the rise of eBooks and online distributors like Amazon.

You are correct that the real important questions are at the midlist level as few authors will be in the outlier cateory.

«Through the hoopla digital platform, publishers will now have the opportunity to showcase backlist and midlist titles, as they do their frontlist; financially benefiting from all transactions.»

I'd like to see you compare midlist legacy and self - pubbed authors to see whether the relationship holds between earnings and sales for them as well as bestsellers.

If your book wound up on the midlist (which by definition most did) then low volume and a small cut of the books total sales price made it financially impossible for authors to write full time as their sole source of income.

Of her post today, Judy says, «I've always been convinced that as writers we share a unique kind of fragile ego, regardless of where we are in our writing careers — trying to get an agent or publisher, first book being published, hanging onto the midlist, or even when we are blockbuster best sellers.

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Distribution directly to the readers became possible, the silliness of thinking of self - publishing as a bad thing got shot in the head after fifty years of life, and some midlist writers finally got completely sick of the bad contracts and even worse treatment from traditional publishers.

I think of myself as a «midlist» self - published author.

I firmly believe the future will see more and more authors (new, midlist trad - pubbed, as well as veteran bestsellers) going indie, in part or whole.

And the midlist self - pub authors can get just as squeezed because they don't yet have enough word of mouth and name recognition.

As you've pointed out on many occasions, there aren't a lot of advantages a publishing house can give a midlist author.

They are playing this whole PR game very smartly by targeting midlist authors though, as one of the previous commenters mentioned.

Authors with fans acquired in a previous existence as a «midlist author» traditionally published have a head start, no question about it, and that head start is decisive.