Sentences with phrase «big publishing deals»

They have big publishing deals that mandate X amount of books being sent out.

While some self - publishing authors want an agent and a big publishing deal, many do not.

As we know now, she DID do it herself, and it ended up leading to that big publishing deal she had been pushing for for so many years.

But, once her stories made her over a million dollars, big publishers had a bidding war over one of her future series, and she landed one of the biggest publishing deals ever offered any author.

For example, Hugh Howey used Kindle Direct to publish his Wool series of dystopian novels, and a few years ago, he said his titles were bringing in six figures in revenue most months — leading to a big publishing deal where Howey was able to keep the e-book rights for himself.

With a history of experience from traditional publishing companies and houses, this has helped us create packages that rival these publishing companies due to the difficulty and barriers to entry getting a big publishing deal, we've brought together key points that have worked for traditional publishing and and moulded them to our self - publishing packages.

Not exact matches

(Apparently, he wasn't sold on the idea that the internet would be a big deal at the time the book was initially published in 1995.)

Soon after The Hill published a story about the deal earlier in October, Trump latched onto it, tweeting that the «Uranium deal to Russia, with Clinton help and Obama Administration knowledge, is the biggest story that Fake Media doesn't want to follow!»

In his feature published today on the Canadian - made sports drink Biosteel, John Lorinc recounts how Biosteel — unable to secure endorsements from big - name NHL players because of pre-existing sponsorship deals with giant competitor Gatorade — is making inroads with promising up - and - comers instead:

When I first published my recipe for Creamy Chicken Soup, it was kind of a big deal.

(As published in Gotham Gazette) The big news is that Governor Cuomo and Mayor de Blasio have stopped fighting over who should pay what, and reached a deal to close a huge gap in the MTA's vital $ 26 billion five - year capital plan.

That is why we will publish all the big contracts government signs with business to make sure there are no secret soft deals.

Ram, who was a graduate student at the time, thought that asking scientists for field data used in the papers they published was no big deal.

It's a very big deal among U.S. educators, and we found some of it in all eleven countries that we profile in our recently published book, Failing Our Brightest Kids: The Global Challenge of Educating High - Ability Students.

In a recent piece entitled Why the movement to opt out of Common Core tests is a big deal and first published by the Washington Post, Carol Burris writes;

And if you look around at other self - publishing companies who make a «big deal» out of giving away their production files, you will notice that their least expensive packages are all in excess of $ 1000!

The media makes a big deal about those who have scored by self - publishing and have gotten million - dollar contracts from the big houses.

One agent, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said he certainly wouldn't call Konrath's deal a game changer, but that it does say something interesting about the place of the midlist author in legacy publishing: «It's not necessarily clear that big corporate publishing is well structured to help low midlist authors with rapidly reducing print runs in an environment in which overall print sales are falling week by week.

That's because authors know, if you really want to make a self - published book work or be a big deal, you have to work your ass off.

J.S.: I'm glad you called out the business and marketing aspect of indie publishing, because this is a big deal.

In the past few months, author HM Ward released a blog post that explained her decision to turn down a six - figure publishing deal from a Big Five publisher.

Author HM Ward holds up a copy of the book behind her controversial decision to reject a Big Five traditional publishing deal.

In the end, this certainly isn't the biggest book deal in publishing but it does give John security in order to write books and know where his next paycheck is coming from.

That's right, the article says that one of the reasons Amazon would be launching the physical stores would be to showcase physical books from their new publishing division, which has signed some big authors to deals and is now run by longtime publishing executive Laurence Kirshbaum.

Getting traditionally published is certainly a big deal, and like anything else that is a life - changing experience, I would want to consider all aspects that would benefit me in the long run (especially if something like this is going to be my career / full - time job).

This is a big deal because it signifies that the publishing industry believes now that it needs to embrace the new book ecosystem that has grown out of self - publishing for its own survival.

While you and your company may feel you treat your authors fairly, we've heard too many stories about bad deals and poor treatment from big publishing.

Amazon has a potentially industry - changing idea on its hands here with Kindle Scout, as the system provides a way to give books a stamp of approval that can cut out the noise and sheer volume of self - published titles out there, and yet it manages to provide a better deal to authors than most big publishing house deals, including a 5 - year term on publishing rights granted to Kindle Press, a $ 1,500 advance, 50 % royalties paid on e-book sales, built - in Amazon.com marketing and what Amazon terms «easy rights reversion.»

But, warning: even this new form of book publishing hides a business underneath, namely the big deal of self publishing platforms, that nowadays earn much money by the high number of self published authors.

If you're indie publishing, the copyright page isn't a big deal — in fact you can stand out by using something more creative.

But in the print publishing industry, publishing rights for different countries and languages are both standard practice and a big deal.

Surely he's been a big enough deal in publishing for a long enough time that he could have written for most any comics publisher at most any time he chose, right?

«I knew I had to research, research, research everything because I knew I wanted total control of my book and not deal with the time it would take to publish with a big publishing house,» Bisram says.

Even if you get a traditional publishing deal, the days of big advances for first time writers are largely gone (unless you are extremely lucky), and you will still be expected to do a significant amount of marketing work on your own.

The only thing that this proves is that Amazon really is VERY important in the publishing game and those who dismiss online sales as not that big of a deal shouldn't be that torn up about this.

Maybe you could blog about the changes to our eco-system since the high point in 2011 when self - published authors could suddenly find deals with big publishers like Amanda Hocking... If only I'd read this article in the UK Guardian in 2012, I might never have self - published at all, here's the link: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2012/may/24/self-published-author-earnings

«You can spend 10 years of your life trying to write that novel that's great enough to get a big deal and get a huge push, and you might have to write six or seven novels before you write that book,» Howey says of the traditional publishing industry.

What's the big deal about Harlequin having a self - publishing option for authors?

Writers who haven't been published by The Big 5 assume that once they get a deal with one of these big fish, they'll be able to sit in their living rooms and wait for their publishers to set up their interviews with Ellen and ColbeBig 5 assume that once they get a deal with one of these big fish, they'll be able to sit in their living rooms and wait for their publishers to set up their interviews with Ellen and Colbebig fish, they'll be able to sit in their living rooms and wait for their publishers to set up their interviews with Ellen and Colbert.

And they made a deal to allow their big - time authors to self - publish through Perseus.

Kobo partnered up with Indigo / chapters books are forming many popular publishing deals with big companies such as Random House.

for some self - published authors, that level of success is actually a cumulative total of all of their titles, but it's still quite a big deal.

In the world of Amazon publishing, it's a big deal.

That's not to say big publishing is bad: if you can get a deal (a real deal — not one you pay for), then you might want to consider it.

Being able to say you're a published author is a big deal, but before you publish your book, you need to explore what you want being a «published author» to mean.

A Self - Published Poet's Path to Her First Book Deal via Jane Friedman — Amanda Lovelace's self - published poetry collection made it big this year thanks to her longstanding Tumblr Published Poet's Path to Her First Book Deal via Jane Friedman — Amanda Lovelace's self - published poetry collection made it big this year thanks to her longstanding Tumblr published poetry collection made it big this year thanks to her longstanding Tumblr presence.

The big question now for aspiring authors is no longer whether they can get a publishing deal, but whether they can push their title above the sea of other hopefuls.

This is not necessarily a big deal, but if you are attempting to keep a tight identity and / or establish your own publishing entity, you want to brand on that.

A forthcoming biography of Formula 1 driver Kimi Räikkönen from Siltala Publishing in Finland is generating big buzz — and big rights deals — at the London Book Fair.

I've also had two literary agents, the last having a stable of award - winning authors and multi-book deals with the Big 5 publishing houses, but I released her of her contract to use a fabulous entertainment lawyer to negotiate the dream movie deal for me.