Sentences with phrase «do as an indie publisher»

No matter what you do as an indie publisher, you must be writing first.

Not exact matches

In terms of trad pub vs indie — most trad publishers don't want to publish collections of short fiction by unknowns, but you can submit to magazines and anthologies as well as self - publishing collections or using them for marketing.

We indie writers are trying to sell to people who also read print books, and Big Publisher books, and we need to look as good as those do.

So those who do get published by an indie publisher can put just as much care and effort into their work as what goes into a traditionally produced novel.

More precisely, what is defined as Indie Publisher is actually the definition of an Indie Author and every Author who does not see his writing as a hobby.

It's always farmed out just as indie publishers do.

Reblogged this on Dale Furse and commented: As indie authors, we need to market our books, but we don't have the big budgets Traditional publishers do.

Dale: «Indie authors create books just as exciting and polished as the big publishers produce, but we don't have the overhead, so we can fill in the gaps.»

I am in a quandary; as a self - published indie writer, like many of us denied by Big House publishers who do not want to take chances, I am in search of reviewers.

I have traditionally published clients as well as indie and they will attest — their publisher does little to nothing to promote their work, and fully expects them to bring in sales in order to keep them on for the next book.

I became intrigued by this topic when as an author with two dozen e-books on Smashwords I read founder Mark Coker's «2013 Book Publishing Industry Predictions — Indie Ebook Authors Take Charge,» Among other things, Coker noted that «If Amazon could invent a system to replace the author from the equation, they'd do that,» and went on to describe how one innovative publisher, ICON Group International has already patented a system that automatically generates non-fiction books, and he worries that as the field of artificial intelligence increases, «how long until novelists are disinter - mediated by machines.»

I would never sign with another publisher unless they offered either a huge advance or something I wouldn't have access to as an indie, such as a promotional budget or shelf space in big bookstores, translation deal or a film deal, etc (I know film isn't handled via the publisher, but that's the kind of thing I mean — something I can't do on my own).

Indie presses, which is defined as publishers that are not part of large conglomerates, do everything trad publishers do, but on a smaller scale.

Traditional publishers helped indie publishers a lot in this very early period by deciding that they didn't like electronic books and priced them up near hardcover levels, as if an ebook was a specialty item.

And speaking of time, I have shouted here a great deal about how indie publishers need to ignore the «book as event» or «book as produce» models, but yet few do, thus all the stupidity about self - promotion.

While progress has certainly been made — namely in the fact that more and more readers don't care how the book came about so long as it's a great read — there are still a few holdouts where indie authors don't garner the same respect or privileges that publishers and their authors can find.

AG is not known for a reputation of supporting self - published authors, and some commenters see this as a move to provide a cheaper, faster solution for bigger authors and major publishers who want to get swift take - down notices against indie authors who still don't have the means to defend themselves.

I did sign with an agent and I am anxious to sign that first deal with a traditional publisher that he is working to line up for me because I see value in getting hard copies into bookstores and gaining access to the international markets that would be difficult to penetrate as an indie - only writer.

I don't know, but it struck me as odd that there were no balancing examples where publishers trade favors with each other for positive blurbs, or any exploration of whether this is a solely indie phenomenon.

What should indie authors do to make sure they don't fall into the same traps as big publishers?

I've gone indie with my backlist, and am seriously considering putting up a few original works as well, for many of the reasons mentioned by others — timing, doesn't fit a print publisher's mold.

It's hard work, but having done it both ways I can attest the satisfactions that come from seeing a work through to publication as an indie author / publisher are perhaps even sweeter than those that come from a «book deal.»

As an indie author, I didn't have to wait for an agent or publisher to «approve of» my book or to give me permission to become published.

Even if you get just one piece of inspiration from seeking out more information, that's a piece you didn't have before and weren't applying to your book's potential success, so as an indie publisher, one of our best pieces of advice is to never stop learning and looking for opportunity.

So as a reader, how do you insure that you do not fall into the trap of unwittenly purchasing indie eBooks and only buy from reputable publishers?

What Amazon appears to be doing is moving the indie focus to KDP so CreateSpace can be developed as a «publisher» POD programme.

A trade publisher who pays poor royalties (as most trade publishers still do on ebooks) can still be a good choice for an indie, if the scale and publishing and marketing plan is good.

Publishers should also embrace a model that will let the market decide which authors are doing well enough as an indie to be taken on by the legacy publishers into broadePublishers should also embrace a model that will let the market decide which authors are doing well enough as an indie to be taken on by the legacy publishers into broadepublishers into broader markets.

To me, an indie is doing well when she can say that she earned out during a year on one title what she would have made as an advance from a traditional publisher.

I wanted to point out to him that I was an indie publisher, but he was so lost in the I don't want to learn, I didn't want to bother trying to tell him that self - publishing his own work took learning as well.

Preservation issues aside this creates challenges for small press publishers, indie authors, and library staff who want to do the most good for the community as a whole.

I have watched in horror as indie writers (making great money) have fallen for this myth by suddenly turning and selling to traditional publishers, even though they would make more money and get to more readers just by continuing on what they were doing.

But the problem arises when a book doesn't sell as well as «expected» and the indie publisher starts making bad decisions about the book.

This week, indie author Hugh Howey released some data on how well indie authors do financially, as compared to authors who publish with large publishers (the «Big 5»).

The difference, though, is that indie authors also set their prices and budgets, where as traditional authors can do nothing to grow or shrink the publisher's marketing budget and profit margin.

As an indie author this is super important because you don't have a big publisher's branding helping you skate by.

Ron, you can get a very professional edit as an indie publisher — just do your homework and search carefully, ask for testimonials or references, and ask exactly what they look for (don't settle for just spelling and grammar — there's so much more at stake), and get a sample edit, or a trial edit of the first 10 - 30 pages or so.

Hybrid, though my publishers were more boutique than true traditional, one made me feel like I was just indie — does that still count as hybrid?

Setting prices that give indie publishers flexibility in doing sales, just as traditional publishers have.

Unless * publishers * actively embrace lower prices on ebooks, and start pricing their books low enough for retailers to discount them down to indie levels and still make a small profit, I don't think the indie pricing range ($ 1 - 6) is in as much danger as some folks think it is.

I think it's important that people understand that indie publishing is not something many of us do as a «last resort» or because we had a hard time finding a publisher.

And finally, today indie writers are starting to catch a clue that the future for their personal publishing company is in doing both electronic and paper books (just as traditional publishers are doing) and reaching 100 % of their reading public.

Mrs. Prybylski has been in the publishing industry since 2010 and has worked for other indie publishers as well as having done private, freelance editing on many books.

As mentioned before, Midwest Book Review accepts Indie authors» books and so does Publisher's Weekly.

As a long - time editor for independent authors (more than ten years now) and as an indie publisher since 2011, I think what would tremendously help this checklist would be to mention at what stage of book production these steps should be donAs a long - time editor for independent authors (more than ten years now) and as an indie publisher since 2011, I think what would tremendously help this checklist would be to mention at what stage of book production these steps should be donas an indie publisher since 2011, I think what would tremendously help this checklist would be to mention at what stage of book production these steps should be done.

As a reader, I do expect indie authors to do everything a publisher does especially the editing.

Since the first of the year, I have made more from indie publishing than I would have received as an advance from a traditional publisher — assuming they didn't see me as the next Stephen King or Nora Roberts.

As a formerly trad published writer turned indie publisher, I would like to do some short stories to serve as prefaces to upcoming books, introduce the characters, etcAs a formerly trad published writer turned indie publisher, I would like to do some short stories to serve as prefaces to upcoming books, introduce the characters, etcas prefaces to upcoming books, introduce the characters, etc..

The major publishers will do virtually nothing for you unless your name is King, Rowling, or Clancy, and as an indie, it's all up to me anyway.

For this path I would recommend researching how others have done it by visiting various indie - publishing websites such as the Independent Book Publishers Association (IBPA), the Alliance for Independent Authors (ALLi) or Where Writers Win.