Sentences with phrase «because most publishing houses»

That's because most publishing houses no longer accept book submissions or book ideas directly from authors.

Not exact matches

Among a publishing house's functions, editing may be the most difficult for readers to grasp, not least because they never see it happen.

While most authors (like me) secretly want to be published by one of the big, well - known publishing houses, there are so many reasons why it's a good idea to self - publish — nine to be exact (but that's only because I was restricted by the cats.)

I chose to publish via Amazon this summer because for me, getting my novel in the hands of readers and focusing on crafting a quality product is what matters most — not lining the pockets of literary agents, editors, marketeers, and publishing houses.

One of the main reasons I love small publishing houses is because most everything is available.

If they choose to look only at «large publisher» books, it's because they've bought (or are required by their publishers to follow) the «books by other publishers are no good» line, even when a commentator whose review is right there on view on a book's cover obviously knows more about literature than half the editorial staff (even good ones) at most large publishing houses.

I think it would have worked the same if $ 0.99 never existed and $ 2 would have been the great thing for Indie writers to be discovered because established authors from publishing houses still sell their ebooks at over 5 times that price in most cases.

Send the proposal to agents and / or small publishing houses that accept unagented proposals (and prepare for rejection, because that's the most likely response).

Those practices will change, if only because the DOJ's forensic accountants will request information that the current accounting systems in most publishing houses do not track.

I think it was Mark Lawrence who said recently that authors that go through a publishing house looked at the advance as the thing, and that advances usually ran around $ 10,000 or thereabouts, because most books published sell around 500 copies or so, and so you can't depend on getting any royalties over the advance.

Publicity campaigns for indie and self - published books differ from those for traditionally published books because of one distinct reason: most indie authors do not have the infrastructure and marketing budget of a publishing house.

Shatzkin's main purpose here is to encourage publishing houses to help authors create and maintain the most effective web sites they can, and he's coincidentally getting at one of the ironies of independent publishing: most self - publishing authors are probably better at understanding the importance of a good site because they direct their own marketing.

James Joyce had to self - publish Ulysses, one of the most critically acclaimed novels of the 20th Century, because it was too weird for any publishing house to have it.

Most new authors who submit their work to a publishing houses come away feeling rejected because their novel just didn't take off like they thought and hoped it would.

In my experience, what most indie authors require is actually a combination of line, copy, and general editing1, not least because the cost of the several editing passes a big publishing house would do (general / developmental edit, line edit, copyedit) can add up to several thousand dollars, a prohibitive cost for the vast majority of indies.

And because translation has a reputation for selling poorly, the publishing houses that translate the most tend to be smaller.