Sentences with phrase «at trad»

Sukhumvit Road continues on through the south - eastern provinces of Samut Prakarn, Chonburi, Rayong, Chantaburi, until it finally ends at Trad on the Cambodian - Thai border!

Amazon Publishing has done this by offering authors a fair deal on ebook royalties, with reported rates of 50 % compared with the maximum 25 % on offer at trad firms.

It's like people don't look at trad published books before putting theirs together.

I figure a few more books down the road I will start looking at trad publishing.

Yes, there is a great deal of dreck in self - published books, but have you taken a really good look at trad pubbed books lately?

I only roll my eyes at trad pub and its hand - maidens when they automatically turn up their noses at indie as the great unwashed.

My latest idea: (1) query agents because I already wasted all of that time on those days I had writer's block researching agents & writing a synopsis, query letter, book proposal THEN (2) if I don't get any takers at trad - pub within a reasonable period, I self - pub because I already wasted all of that time on those days I had writer's block researching book bloggers & reviewers, building two websites, making or editing videos & writing tweets, Facebook posts, blogs.

Not only can you cut it at a trad pubbed house, you can cut it with dead legends.

It's a watershed moment for indies, because there has long been this sentiment that the reason authors are indies is because they can't cut the quality at the trad pub level, and so have to release their material themselves.

I guess this shows how often I'm looking at trad pubbed books over there!

At the TRaD * Works Forum (* telecommuting, remote, and distributed) this year, we heard from companies like Microsoft, ADP, Dell, Xerox, and Cisco about how remote and flexible work has positively impacted their businesses.

One of the recent arenas where we heard great quotes about work flexibility was at the TRaD Works Forum, a FlexJobs - sponsored event held in Washington, DC.

Not exact matches

During an interview at the FlexJobs sponsored event, the TRaD Works Forum, Ken Matos talks about why work flexibility is important to workers today and how remote work improves performance management strategies.

TRaD panel member Janice Petz, who is a senior talent acquisition partner at UnitedHealth Group, talked about the company's continuing journey offering flexible work, including remote options.

Also at 10 a.m., state DEC Commissioner Basil Seggos will present DEC staff with annual accolades, including the Ernest F. Trad Award, Peter Berle Memorial Award, Neil Murphy Award, and the Commissioner's Meritorious Service Award, 625 Broadway, Albany.

Weidner is a licensed veterinarian, and she recently completed one of the most difficult climbs in Colorado, China Doll, at an extremely elusive grade of 5.14 trad.

To be sure, it's a trad production, especially in the parts with Rhys Ifans as Snowden's CIA boss, at one point looming ominously large in a communications room, and Nicholas Cage as his big - hearted computer - history mentor.

I was discussing this with someone yesterday, going back and forth at possible explanations, which included that self - pubbed authors tend to work the review mines harder than their trad pubbed peers, or have more support from other indie authors reviewing, or get higher ratings due to the generally lower price of the work (greater satisfaction due to a price / performance expectation).

Anne, there is no question that my humour column blog (www.melodiecampbell.com — forgive the mention) was instrumental in getting me that first publishing contract at Orca Books, a large Canadian trad publisher.

She got so much buzz about her decision to turn down a trad pub contract to go indie, that everyone wanted to read or at least look at the book.

If book «x» is trad published and successful enough to sell, let's say, 20,000 books (or whatever, just a number I grabbed at), and book «y» is indy published and sells the same amount, there is no doubt that the author of the indy book is going to be FAR better off.

Okay, I understand that if you look at just the marketing alone, the trad - pubbed author comes out behind.

That's why trad publishers still have a lot to offer, especially in the marketing area... they get your books out to the right newspapers, they get your book up for literary prizes... indeed, any newbie signing a contract tese days should take a very close look at the type of marketing the trad publisher is committed to undertake...

At this point, I consider myself exclusively indie, but I do still get royalty statements for my two trad - pubbed nonfiction books.

So, in fact, the indie author is coming to the marketing table with a negative balance, while the trad author is at zero.

But none in the traditional publishing arena, because, however lousy one reader or another may think a trad - pubbed book, at the very least SOMEBODY liked it besides the author.

A publisher friend of mine assures me that trad publishers still get greater visibility for their books in ebook stores (unless it hits the Amazon top 100) and you only have to look at what pops up when you go anywhere and you can see the truth in that.

I went to an author talk by a trad pubbed author and she had to buy a copy of her own book at the bookstore because her contract doesn't allow her to buy copies of her own book at a discount from the publisher.

When authors stop signing contracts and then announce they are making as much, if not more, by selling direct to their customers (via Amazon / iTunes / etc), will those remaining trad pub authors still toe the line and defend their masters at all costs?

If you wrote and published just a little bit more and did some of these as self - pubbed books at a lower price range to go along with your trad pub deals, I'll bet you could make a lot more.

If you look at a number of trad published authors they had pen names for their different genres and now they are moving away from that.

We actually talk to authors - you see a few blog posts and articles and believe we are at war but the reality is many of us know trad published authors - some are happy, some are becoming unhappy, some are in the middle of lawsuits, some are no longer writing because they couldn't afford to sue and gave up.

It has more trad - pub nomenclature and you need to know your stuff before venturing into LS, so not at all something for first time publishing.

I drove down to NO just for the book signing, and I can tell you the trad authors were just as crowded at their tables.

(Because as I've often liked to relate, both my love of Great Big Sea and my love of Quebec trad can be traced right back to the very same concert, the first time I saw both GBS and La Bottine Souriante, way back in 2000 at Chateau Ste. Michelle.

When a trad - pub book weighs in at $ 9.99 and you can buy somewhere between two to four times as much reading material from Indie authors, the choice seems obvious.

In trad publishing at least the gamble is clear — you put in the hours, you learn as much as you can about the business, and you hope.

I'm an indy - author since trying the trad - publishing route in 2005 - 06 with my first two books (historical novels, which several agents looked at, and said regretfully that they were very good... but just not marketable.)

I think with the way the industry's changing, it's very likely that even trad - pubbed authors will have options for retaining (or regaining) audiobook rights at some point in their careers.

Additionally, I'd like to take the opportunity, if I may, to mention my own blog, and especially my recent 3 - part series on Trad v Indie, of which the first post is at http://dariospeaks.wordpress.com/2012/08/16/the-great-self-publishing-debate-round-one/.

At some point, I hope you'll take up what might be considered the downside to self - publishing, vis a vis those who continue to seek a trad publishing arrangement.

My hunch is this was written at the suggestion of a Trad Pub house.

Perhaps the article isn't sending the not - too - subtle message that indie authors suck, thus their reviews must be fake, or at least suspect, thus the only way to save yourself the grief is to buy trad pub books, which have paid reviews from the shills who do it for a living... er... never mind.

Indie publishing forces you to rely on your own instincts in that it allows you to write stuff that a trad publisher wouldn't look at — not because it's bad, but because it's different.

I don't know if trad publishing is the brass ring or not, but I know that I was always too frightened to self - pub before because I was given to understand it would ruin my chances at a «real» publishing contract.

At any rate, the income threshold that self - pubbed authors must meet ($ 3,000) is that same one that trad - pubbed authors must meet.

What makes you think indie authors lay awake at night whining that they don't have a horrible trad contract or some bauble from a committe?

And that writers opting to go indie / self pub are at least as realistic as those opting to go trad.

But that being said, please, if any new writers * do * go through trad - pub (and this isn't for you, Diane, because I know you're a pro at all this and have been for longer than me), read the contract carefully and know * exactly * what you're signing on for.

:) I've dropped out of my trad - pub email loops (which, in retrospect, is a pity because that's an interesting perspective I've lost) so I don't know how widespread this practice is at Penguin / RH, but I'm guessing it's getting pretty darn prevalent.