Sentences with phrase «considered by commercial publishers»

Contributing editor Michael Bourne highlights the trend of family - run indie presses and explores how the editors champion innovative authors whose work is often considered by commercial publishers to be unmarketable.

Not exact matches

Modern authors often choose the present tense to add edginess and immediacy to a story, but the more traditional use of past tense is generally better loved by big publishing companies, who are increasingly risk averse for financial reasons.Tales abound of authors instructed by commercial publishers to rewrite an entire book to change the tense from present to past, before thy'll consider publishing it.

If you sell fewer than 1500 copies at a traditional publisher, you're generally considered a commercial disaster by any publisher but a very, very tiny one who paid you an advance less than $ 1000.