Sentences with phrase «consider trad»

And no, it doesn't only mean that the quick and easy way is gone — unless you consider that trad pub titles having a baked in the cake advantage with the algorithms is meaningless.

If I were writing lit fic or a picture book — or, as you mentioned, middle - grade — I might consider a trad publisher for their distribution (and for the fact that they do buy lit fic).

I always said I would consider trad if an offer came, but most likely go indie.

Not exact matches

I'd say, if I were curious / interested in trad pub and I was a self - pubbed author, I might consider offering up a purely commercial one - off, standalone.

At this point, I consider myself exclusively indie, but I do still get royalty statements for my two trad - pubbed nonfiction books.

Trad pub authors also used to make it very clear that they didn't consider ebooks «real books».

Considering how poorly trained the volunteers were — most of whom are readers and have zero idea of author politics or the indie / trad battle of bruised egos — I'm not surprised if a) one or two volunteers got the designation wrong and / or b) the overheard conversations had zero to do with the book signing and were instead «why does your name badge say that / what do you write / do you have a book out?»

Have to disagree with some of the points on trad publishing though - For the pros you neglected to mention that the publishers distribute your book to all bookstores and e-books sites (hitting two marketing areas) A huge Pro considering most authors are battling to get their book seen and traditional publishing can do that.

I've been indie from the beginning, and never thought about a Trad deal, but I see the logic of what you're considering.

At some point, I hope you'll take up what might be considered the downside to self - publishing, vis a vis those who continue to seek a trad publishing arrangement.

Maybe I'll have another project later on that I'd consider for a trad deal.

If I were to be offered a trad pub contract, I'd be forced to seriously consider it just for the chance to get a readership large enough to help me live modestly while writing the next book.

Things have gotten so much worse for trad - pubbed authors since then that I consider myself lucky not to have been treated worse.

Consider too: would - be midlist and top ranking titles with a trad pub.

As I close in on 50 novels published, I don't think I'm suffering from a lack of my work being available, so see no reason to kill myself on more than a novel every quarter, which in trad pub circles would be considered near miraculous, and for me would be a vacation.

That said, I'm going to have to start a new series / brand targeted to a traditional publisher, and maybe later I will be able to either afford to publish my self - pubbed series on my own, or hope that if I do find a trad pub later that they might consider my previous works.

Considering how many bad covers I see coming from trad published books, do you hold them to the same standard?

That's a must - read blog for anyone considering a writing career, indie or trad.

If you can wade through the tone of it, there are some decent points, but they also apply to traditional publishing, especially considering how the trad publishers — not Baen — have started pushing editing and marketing off to the authors and their agents.

While my self pubbed titles are doing almost as well as my trad book, I will still always consider shopping future titles to publishers because of the exposure and level of professionalism having that team behind you can bring.

Things have reached the point where I can't even consider submitting to a trad publisher anymore.

If all you want to do is write... well, even if trad - published, you'll still have to do more than just write; you'll be expected to do promotion on your own, but going indy means you'll have to do a lot more of everything, If the time you can devote to writing / publishing is limited, that's something to consider.

I haven't had a chance to look at the contract yet but I get the feeling that this is one of those contract Kris Rusch and TPV warn authors about and is a prime example of why every author even considering signing a trad publishing contract needs to have an IP attorney vet it first.

Oh, and it would give the Trads even more reason to price their backlog ridiculously, since I can't be the only one who's considered it for the really old e-books they're selling for four to six bucks — so you'd be, in the long run, shrinking your share of the pot by making it so that people mostly try the really expensive books and don't even try sanely priced books, thus never getting exposed to your writing and it not leading to them buying your books outside the program.

And then I remembered, I had an agent, a great agent, I wrote great books (so all the rejecting editors told me) and yes, you are right, self pub has given my stories a voice and an ear and the chance to be read, when they otherwise would have still been gathering dust on my hard drive, yet, on the other hand this is hard, REALLY HARD, it is SO hard to find your way to a readership as a SP, with limited funds (dwindling)... and the glimmer of trad pub — with their power to splash your name around established circles of readers, and their ability to secure a great number of reviews where, as a self pub, doors have been slammed in my face — becomes temptingly shiny again, (it's like childbirth, you forget all the painful stuff with time)... and it all gets very tempting... almost tempting enough to consider sacrificing one work JUST one artistic premise for the trade off of visibility... and then perhaps, just perhaps THEN, my SP efforts will finally sprout wings... but then I hear you and other say, it wasn't worth it, you'd never do it again, and I sigh... And then I wake up the next morning and think of packing it all in, and going to work for Walmart and steady shitty pay... lol And then along comes this blog post.

Especially considering that in trad pub you'll work with professionals who do that for a living and have likely done it for a number of years.

Many in the «trad» or «legacy» world are fond of saying that their channels remain dominant because print is still, of course, the preference of many readers and discoverability in bookstores is considered a key to success.

My opinion is that if I am paying a bloated price for a trad pub book and the profits are going into the maw of the mothership of a multi-national corporation, instead of to the writer, then I will buy indie except for the very small list of writers (some of them yours) that I support because I consider them friends.

I come from an entrepreneurial business background and I had been writing probably for on and off just to amuse myself for the last 15, 20 years but I never really submitted anything or considered trying to go the trad route.

Unlike a trad IRA, if and when you take unqualified distributions, your contributions / conversions are considered to be withdrawn first (and nontaxable), and the gains last.