Sentences with phrase «backing of a publishing house»

Whether to publish a book as an indie author or to seek the backing of a publishing house depends on three factors:

You get all the freedom of being self published, but you get a backing of a publishing house behind you and all the networking and resources that comes with.

Not exact matches

Update (Jan. 21): Tyndale House Publishers revealed more details today about the publishing and retraction of its bestselling The Boy Who Came Back from Heaven, stating it was «saddened to hear that Alex [Malarkey] is now saying that he made up the story of dying and going to heaven.»

Although their official report isn't due to be published until the 23rd of April, on Wednesday the Guardian reported that the Joint Committee on Lords Reform has decided to back an «open preferential voting system» rather than the government's preferred Single Transferable Vote (STV) for electing members to a reformed House of Lords.

With a potential Trump nomination making Democrats dream of taking back the Senate and even the House, let's revisit a bit of wisdom first published on Epolitics.com way back in 2009.

After our original fact - check published, White House spokesman Jay Carney tweeted, «PolitiFact backs MarketWatch analysis of federal spending under POTUS & predecessors.»

The Government's White Paper published last July, and for which there is backing from other parties, committed us to an 80 % or 100 % elected House of Lords.

The efforts of The Washington Post to publish the Pentagon Papers despite legal challenges from the president should make an inspiring film... or maybe a depressing reminder of how much the current relationship between the White House and the fourth estate harkens back to the Nixon age.

The Texas textbooks, most of them from major publishing houses, were written to align with instructional standards that the Board of Education approved back in 2010 — with the explicit intention of tugging social studies teaching to the right.

Back before the digital age allowed self - publishing to become even remotely doable, traditional publishing houses were the gatekeepers of quality.

The problem with this, however, is that this means that the major publishing houses now have bumped the prices back up for a LOT of new ebook releases.

The New York - based publishing house, whose roots date back to 1817, was the only one of the Big Five publishers to offer some of its backlist titles — and perhaps more importantly, some of its prestige — to these startups at launch, helping to kickstart the fledging Netflix - like e-book subscription market.

Back in 2012, Dark Horse published House of Night: Legacy, a graphic novel written by P.C. and Kristin Cast, set in the same world as their House of Night prose novels.

If you sign with an agent or a publishing house, and they don't like what the freelance editor has suggested, the writer then has to rework the manuscript, sort of like taking it back to where it was pre-money.

Back in the day, with a traditional publishing house, you'd have to sell PILES and PILES of copies of your book before you «earned out» your pathetic advance and actually started earning royalties...

Both Penguin Group and Random House have initiated their own short story digital publishing platforms and, while the programs do meet the needs of customers in terms of a low price - point and a shorter format than novels, the real gain to be made is not just in terms of bringing back readers» demands for a historically - loved format.

Christian publisher Tyndale House announced today that they will publish Drew Brees» memoir, Coming Back Stronger: Unleashing the Hidden Power of Adversity.

Random House reached a similar deal back in March for the English - language Bond backlist outside of Canada and the U.S. Barnes & Noble, which has vowed never to stock titles published by Amazon, is going to have an interesting decision to make once the physical Bond books are published by Amazon, since Barnes & Noble stores currently stock Fleming's novels.

He also goes back, trying to get at Amazon's intentions toward books:» «Don't forget,» the chief of a publishing house said, «Bezos has declared that the physical book and bookstores are dead.»»

Writes Adam Rowe of Forbes, this may (MAY) have something to do with that nifty little move publishers made back in 2015 to raise ebook prices: «In 2015, the Big Five publishing houses raised ebook prices to around $ 8 a book, far higher than the $ 3 - a-book price point independent publishers settled on,» writes Rowe.

Self - publishing also includes a large number of books that were originally published by the publishing houses long ago, but went out of print; when authors are able to get back the copyrights to their old, out - of - print books, they often republish the books themselves.

Originally, I thought the only way to publish a book was to submit samples of your work to traditional publishing houses and pray that some executive in some office in a faraway land would send a letter back stating they were interested in what you had to offer, but sadly, this fantasy was short lived.

Go back to the directory of India to find a list of publishing houses and publishing service companies in India.

You don't have the support of publishing houses to fall back on.

Now mind you, not all publishing houses have got the memo, and a lot of them too, aren't doing a lot of their selling in ebooks, (Yet) or — the idiocy — are trying to discourage selling that way, under the belief if they keep their fingers over their ears and scream «there's no place like home, auntie Em» they'll be back in the — for them — halcion days of the nineties.

I am an unknown author publishing my first novel independently of the support and backing provided by a major house or even an agent.

Most readers don't look at the name of the publishing house when they pick up a book - they read the blurb on the back.

Back in November of 2008, in conference rooms at publishing houses throughout New York, the elephant in the room was the Amazon Kindle.

If a fiction model were devised for libraries, it would most likely follow the cartel bundling model: pay X amount of $ a year, get all the ebook versions of the bestsellers from Publishing House Y. Add a few extra 000s to that subscription price and they'll throw in their back catalog of midlist authors.

It helps develop authors with the ultimate goal of increased book sales and it is backed by distribution muscle on par with New York publishing houses.

«It's easy to forget, in the age of monolithic publishing houses and ubiquitous big - box retailers, that the bookstore - as - publisher tradition goes way back — as pointed out in a recent Salon article, Shakespeare & Company published Ulysses, and City Lights published Howl.»

A standoff over financial terms has prompted the bookstore chain Barnes & Noble to cut back substantially on the number of titles it orders from the publishing house Simon & Schuster, raising fears among other publishers, agents and authors that the conflict may harm the publishing industry as a whole.

Jane and Jason: «Inclusion of All Paths» Don and Doubt: «Not the glorious revolution» Hugh's House: «Commitment to Advocacy» Philip and the perplexity: «Amazon will roar back» Is Publishing a Class System?

Unfortunately for Chris and his readers, the publishing house decided to include all the footnotes in a section in the back... with no way of knowing what they were referencing.

The Federal Housing Administration backed about 17 % of all mortgage loans made in the U.S., according to the most recent figures published by HUD.

He has published sixteen works of poetry including Sing This One Back To Me (Coffee House Press: 2013) and A Couple of Ways of Doing Something (Aperture: 2003), a collaboration with Chuck Close.

Brian Teare came back to the Kelly Writers House on October 30, 2015, to speak with Jaime Shearn Coan about his new collection of poetry, The Empty Form Goes All the Way to Heaven, published in 2015 by Ahsahta Press.

Greystone Books works with The Heritage Group (which includes Heritage Group Distribution and the publishing imprints Heritage House Publishers, TouchWood Editions, and Rocky Mountain Books) on a number of back - end publishing services and for parts of its regional and Canadian national sales programs.

Great article — i have mentioned it on House of Butter — i fully concur with the fact that law firms should move into publishing — not just JV's but their own operations — whilst the publishers are still on the back foot..

In its report published today on the Government's proposed legislation setting up a Trade Remedies Authority (TRA) the House of Commons Select Committee has backed a number of recommendations made by George Peretz QC (who gave written and oral evidence to the Committee's inquiry).

On Aug. 12, 2014, the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), the regulator of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, published a proposed framework for how the two mortgage - finance companies might issue and back a single - type of mortgage - backed security (MBS).

Housing has largely bounced back from the crash, with several key gauges again at healthy, pre-collapse levels, according to the newly released State of the Nation's Housing report, published by the Joint Center for Housing Studies at Harvard University.

Standard & Poor's Ratings Services has just published its annual overview of Australia's housing market and residential mortgage backed securities (RMBS).