Sentences with phrase «decent advance»

I got a very decent advance and a contract for two more novels.

There's the formatting, of course, and possibly the cost of a publisher purchase portal development, but overall, ebooks are really helping midlist authors survive and publishers keep paying decent advances.

The Big Six publishers still offer decent advances.

There's a fairly decent advanced search function and, by the look of it, an RSS feed for your search unhampered by the required date range.

In one year at that rate (with a boost that the writer controls) you could have made on one book more than traditional publishing could have paid for a decent advance on that same book.

Writing has, in fact, become so devalued that publishers aren't willing to pay a decent advance to a relatively unknown author, and the public is getting to the point where they think the fair price for an e-book is $ 2.99.

I'm thinking — if you really are going to query publishers for the above benefits, it might help you more if you went through a publisher who gets you good distribution and a decent advance and no funny business in the contract (a Big 5, if you can swing it... and do watch that contract.

Many of these authors are traditionally published who got fair to decent advances, yet no help whatsoever with marketing.

A major publisher who paid me quite a decent advance.