Instead of investing in new
authors producing quality works, they just threw together a bunch of Junior College level black & white art (even the art in the Star Trek books is flat - out terrible) and called it a book.
Not exact matches
Vegan Heritage Press has a reputation for
producing quality books and
working closely with our
authors and sellers.
Sure there are social media platforms like Goodreads, Wattpad, Facebook groups etc. and then there are the «real» opportunities that are so much harder to facilitate and organize (and pay for e.g. expense vs profit) like community or regional events and networks as you point out above, but I feel really strongly that the most important thing for an
author to do in order to build a loyal paying (italics) fanbase / readership is to
produce good
quality works that are publicized properly and to spend time interacting with those of your readers who you know buy your books because they came to you in the first place.
So basically, one can not be considered to be an «
Author» unless one is lucky enough to pick up a book deal from a publishing house irrespective of the
quality of the
work said person has
produced?
Hi JD, I agree with you that Indie
Authors can
produce a
quality work and many, like you, do.
Self - published
authors can
produce traditional -
quality work now (and should).
A hobby writer may rush out their
work largely unedited, but a responsible
author, one who is focussed upon a long - term career, must endeavour to
produce consistently high -
quality work if they are to build a solid fanbase.
We prefer to
work with a more select group of professional
authors and co-publishers, to
produce quality books that have lasting appeal to readers for years to come.
There are few writers as prolific as T.C. Boyle who consistently
produce such high -
quality and varied
work — he is the
author of 24 books of fiction and has been the recipient of several literary awards, including the PEN / Faulkner — so it's both unsurprising and exciting to receive news of upcoming novels.
These reviewers may very well read indie
authors they know
produce quality work and are professional in their behaviors.
I wish Amazon would come up with something that would help
authors who
produce quality work.
These writers care about
producing something of high
quality in keeping with the standards of the golden era of traditional publishing: that bygone age when publishers invested time and money (often paying advances directly to
authors) to help writers develop and polish their
work prior to publication.
For example, it's very likely that successful
authors are
producing higher
quality work than non-successful
authors.
As owner of BlueInk Editorial Services, I have
worked with an independent publisher, self - published and aspiring
authors to help them
produce quality books that captivate and inspire young readers.
«I'm a professional
author who uses print - on - demand to
produce small editions of
quality work.
We are an independent and traditional publishing house that
works closely with
authors to
produce timely, high -
quality paperback, hardcovers, e-books, and audiobooks.
Not all
authors want to self - publish, but in order to maximise their chances of getting picked up by an agent,
authors who want a traditional deal should make sure that they
produce the best
quality manuscript they possibly can — the less
work an agent or publisher thinks a manuscript needs, the more positively they will view it.
Bowker and DCL representatives said the intent of the new Bowker eBook Conversion Service is to «streamline the process» by which entrepreneurial
authors produce ebooks, providing them not only with high
quality format conversions of their
work but also with ISBN identifiers for each formatted edition of a book.
As a fellow
author, I understand the importance of beautiful, eye - catching, professional - looking covers and
work hard to
produce the highest
quality designs possible.