A big handful of authors and I got together to offer a book giveaway that starts August 28th and goes until midnight EDT Tuesday, September 5th.
Not exact matches
I've already picked out an
author name and in the process
of setting up another blog (I'm used to juggling multiple blogs so it isn't really a
big deal for me to have a
handful of author blogs).
I don't think we'll ever go back to a time when
big publishers give marketing help to more than a
handful of authors.
And this toxic culture is not only about the
big businesses who must make a profit to sustain their systems; it's not about readers being trained to expect free books; it's not about a
handful of authors scamming the system — the root
of the problem is
authors not valuing their own work enough to treat it like a business and expect to be paid for their labor.
Personally, I much prefer on - line book «browsing» to brick & mortar stores which carry only a
handful of titles by comparison (and then only those
authors from the
Big 5 stables) while providing only back - jacket reviews.
I try to do a
handful of writing contests or giveaways each year — these could include publishing or book marketing help, cool stuff only
authors could appreciate, or
bigger things like a free resort stay in Mexico or a month's writing retreat in a castle.
I guess it's easier for
big companies to say I'm sorry to a
handful of authors who actually monitor their royalty statements than it is to get it right in the first place.
This time, when comparing only the earnings
of «New»
authors who debuted after 2010, we see that below a tiny
handful of mega-selling
Big - 5 debuts (like Veronica Roth), far more «New» indie
authors are making a good living from their Kindle e-books than their «New»
Big - 5 peers.
In addition, even though publishing contract terms (including advances, royalties, and rights) are simply awful for 99 %
of authors, a relative handful of Big Name Authors do in fact benefit disproportionately from their alliances with Big Publ
authors, a relative
handful of Big Name
Authors do in fact benefit disproportionately from their alliances with Big Publ
Authors do in fact benefit disproportionately from their alliances with
Big Publishing.
In the video below, Carol Topp showcases just a
handful of authors who have made it
big with their published works.
What traditional publishers are doing is relying upon those
handful of big name
authors entirely as their publishing model, forgetting that the majority
of their «other» sales are what makes them the money.
The small
handful of Big Five
authors with Top - 100 UK ebooks who were also selling well in the US were names that would surprise no one: Robert Galbraith, Lee Child, E L James, Michael Connelly, Harlan Coben, Andy Weir, Jojo Moyes, and Paula Hawkins.