Sentences with phrase «bad traditional contracts»
And uninformed writers, sadly, will continue to flock to bad traditional contracts and low advances and scam agents and in the process they will lose all their rights to their books.
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Now that many African Americans in cities like Atlanta were foreclosed on during the subprime crisis, many of them have bad credit as a result — which means they can't buy homes the traditional way, and so are being offered contract - for - deed payments once again.
I was just listening to a Joanna Penn podcast with Jane Friedman in which they said contracts traditional publishers are offering first - time authors are worse than ever.
And for this discussion, I'm just going to ignore the silliness of signing a bad contract with a traditional publisher.
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.
However, if you read them all, you'll get a pretty good feeling on why non-compete clauses are bad for the author and why you should be wary of any contract a traditional publisher offers you.
We also have the freedom to not take bad contracts from traditional publishers if we don't want.
With traditional publishing contracts, there's less risk of getting a bad cover because they work with professional cover designers with genre expertise, etc..
As I understand it, what Amazon offer with KPD is as bad as, if not worse than, any of the worst kind of «restrictive» contracts traditional publishing houses might hand out.
The reasons for new writers to wait for those traditional contracts are getting worse and worse.
Are you all starting to see why Kris and I are harping all the time about bad traditional publishing contracts?
From agents to bad contracts to bad editing, traditional publishing isn't a path I would suggest until things level out.