Sentences with phrase «contract for more books»

Their numbers come in and the publisher doesn't offer a contract for more books.

Not exact matches

SMG will be responsible for event operation functions, County Parks will maintain the grounds and one or more third parties will be contracted to book and promote concerts.

Now that Park has pitched her book, acquired an agent and a contract, and learned more about writing a book for public consumption, she sees many potential benefits to tackling this project now while her career is in full swing: it may open other doors for her, and she's come to think that early or mid-career scientists can also be uniquely inspiring to people.

More than twenty years ago, Paul Hill wrote Reinventing Public Education, a landmark book that argued that school districts should get out of the business of running schools directly and contract with for - profit and non-profit providers instead.

But what the union boss leaves out is that for teachers to have more flexibility they would need to tear up the telephone book - size union contract that dictates every little move a teacher makes.

Sure, you can send out review copies and make book trailers (not for $ 150 tho), but if an author's end goal is to attract more readers — or even a publishing contract — they first need to get their work in front of people who can help them, and that's what the IRDAs are all about.

It promises years of rejections and, if one does finally land a contract, it will still take another three years or more for the book to actually go into production.

In an era when publishing is in flux, this contract with Tor will let me spend more of my time doing what readers want me to do: writing books and making new stories for them to enjoy.

I've had two books released in the past year, I've got another release scheduled for August, and I've got several more books under contract at major houses.

Other publishing houses that Mark Malatesta has secured contracts with include Simon & Schuster, St. Martin's, Hyperion, Prentice - Hall, Workman, Andrews - McMeel, Entrepreneur, Barron's, Amacom, and many more... resulting in millions of books being sold, as well as works being picked up for TV, stage, and feature film (with companies like Paramount Pictures and DreamWorks).

As an agent, Mark secured contracts with publishers like Simon & Schuster, St. Martin's, Hyperion, Prentice - Hall, Workman, Andrews - McMeel, Entrepreneur, Barron's, Amacom, and many more... resulting in millions of books being sold, as well as works being picked up for TV, stage, and feature film (with companies like Paramount Pictures and DreamWorks).

For example, are you an author with pressing questions about how to market and sell more books, navigate self - publishing, or land a traditional publishing contract?

Our initial offering is self - publishing services, but we're working with an attorney to craft a contract (at least a template version) for more traditional book projects.

Not only do you rack up more units sold in a shorter period, but those sales can get your book on the old royalty escalator for a higher royalty rate if you signed your contract before 12 March 2014.

That's the way most book contracts have been drafted for more than a century, and publishers take it for granted; only a few brave souls have asked why or argued with it because that's the way it has always been.

But today's standard contracts give authors just 25 % of the publisher's «net receipts» (more or less what the publisher collects from a book sale) for e-book royalties.

Yet my contracts have a clause (copied directly from the Book View Cafe contracts) that basically state that my authors have a right to audit if they can prove a 5 % or more discrepancy between what they received for royalties and what they should get.

Not only are these new mid-listers selling a lot of books, but they are also receiving significantly more money from each sale (the industry standard is a 25 % royalty of net sales for e-books under contract by a big - six publisher).

I'm under contract for two more books.

A release from FicShelf highlighted some of the current disparity in the publishing industry, as the more common situation of male authors receiving more lucrative contracts and greater focus on publicity campaigns for their books has led to men outnumbering women in:

Like plaintiffs, thousands of other aspiring authors who signed up with PublishAmerica have become demoralized because the publishing contract appears to be little more than a pretext for selling dubious services... These authors also feel trapped because PublishAmerica owns the rights to their books for seven to ten years.

It's becoming more rare to find these exceptions, usually now made by a previously negotiated contract with literary agents or in book auctions or bidding wars for the celebrity author.

I have two novels in print, two more under contract, and in each case I've gotten good endorsements, but always from authors who say they don't undertake to consider writing blurbs for books until they are under contract.

Still, if you have a solid media platform and truly expect to sell more copies of your book than the maximum stated in your contract, you may be able to negotiate with your publisher to add a higher «bucket» (for example «25,000 + copies»), with a more favorable royalty percentage, to the royalty schedule.

As a result, I think what we'll continue to see more of is a hybrid: authors opting to take a contract on one book or series, for example, but choosing to publish others independently.

The new Kindle also offers 20 percent faster page turns, up to one month of battery life, double the storage to 3,500 books, built - in Wi - Fi, a graphite color option and more — all for only $ 189, and still with free 3G wireless — no monthly bills or annual contracts.

It's a story about good literary agents and bad literary agents and, more specifically, it's a story about the tireless, often intangible work that good literary agents perform for their clients during the period after the contract is signed but before the book is published.

Other publishing houses that Mark has secured contracts with include Simon & Schuster, St. Martin's, Hyperion, Prentice - Hall, Workman, Andrews - McMeel, Entrepreneur, Barron's, Amacom, and many more... resulting in millions of books being sold, as well as works being picked up for TV, stage, and feature film (with companies like Paramount Pictures and DreamWorks).

An agent can not only get your manuscript into the hands of an acquisitions editor for a major publishing house, he / she can negotiate your contract, getting you more in royalties and / or free copies of your book.

This could be following up on pitches (I pitch books mid-week, never Monday or Friday), chasing contracts and money, organizing promotional plans for a client's book with marketing and publicity, chatting with my colleagues about their work, forwarding reviews of client books to our foreign rights manager for her book fair catalogues, consulting with clients about cover design, talking to clients about new book ideas and many more things!

Even after receiving pittance of royalty checks for two of my academic books, which finally found a home after being dropped from a contract... [Read more...]

But with so many traditional publishers now wanting e-rights and POD rights in perpetuity for hardly any royalties (even for older books where e-rights were never mentioned in the contract because they didn't exist), I don't agree even for fiction any more.

But with so many traditional publishers now wanting e-rights and POD rights in perpetuity for hardly any royalties (even for older books where e-rights were never mentioned in the contract), I don't agree even for fiction any more.

Worse, America Star Books requires writers to sign a contract giving the company the rights to their book for seven or more years.

Does it make more sense to seek a traditional contract for more mainstream books?

We also put up with yet more complaining about the exclusivity contract of KDP Select, as though Amazon was somehow requiring authors to list their books in Select for so many cycles before they could choose to sell it elsewhere.

Maybe you'd look more carefully at a contract for less than the full number of planned books.

Also, according to the XYZ contract, if Bob's book should somehow make $ 50,000 during that three - year term, the contract is automatically renewed for three more years.

The new Kindle also offers 20 percent faster page turns, up to one month of battery life, double the storage to 3,500 books, built - in Wi - Fi, a graphite color option and more - all for only $ 189, and still with free 3G wireless - no monthly bills or annual contracts.

If any member of your party is prevented from travelling, that person (s) may be able to transfer their place to someone else (introduced by you, satisfying all the conditions applicable to the arrangements and subject to approval by any of our supplier (s)-RRB- providing we are notified not less than 60 days before departure or 90 days or more prior to departures for cruise and private train holidays and you pay a minimum amendment fee of # 40 per person transferring, and you meet all costs and charges incurred by us and / or incurred or imposed by any of our suppliers and the transferee agrees to these booking conditions and all other terms of the contract between us.

In the event that an accommodation establishment accepts more than one booking reservation for the same space of accommodation over the same period of time, and at least one of these reservations is booked through TravelGround.com, the accommodation establishment will be in breach of contract with TravelGround.com.

Earn at least 500 Miles & More miles for each rental The contract for your rental car is booked directly with our car partners Europcar, Hertz or Sixt and is separate to the Lufthansa flight booking.

I have always been a Marriott / Hilton guy as they have more worldwide properties than Hyatt and because for the last two years my work has had contracts with both Marriott and Hilton, requiring most of my stays to be booked at our lower cooperate rate.

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More recently, Professor Ken Adams, Adjunct professor at Notre Dame Law School, through his blog, Adams on Contract Drafting, his book, A Manual of Style for Contract Drafting (currently in its 3rd edition), and his many seminars, has been doing what he can to advance the cause of what he prefers to call drafting in «standard English» (rather than «plain language» drafting).

This year the judges» panel split the prize between John Swan for his new Contracts text, published by Butterworths, and Ari Kaplan for his book on Pension Law which is published in the Irwin Law Essentials... [more]

And even though Adams seems to tolerate on the same page the convenience of «and / or» as merely «one of the more benign drafting evils» (in appropriate circumstances where it does not result in ambiguity), he «tends to avoid using and / or» in his own drafting (he also provides more commentary, and examples, in his book A Manual of Style for Contract Drafting, 2d ed (Chicago: ABA Section of Business Law, 2008) at paras 10.56 to 10.60).

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:) I didn't get as far as I had planned in my mind, but... I also didn't know I was going to sign a contract to write three books over a twelve month period (plus five more after that, heh heh) when I considered my goals for the year, so I guess I can give myself a little mercy!