Sentences with phrase «even trad»

My writer's group had a discussion about this last night, and no one's happy about it, even trad - pubbed authors.

Even the trad pubbed books are pricing some at a lower price as they try to attract those readers shopping at a lower price point.

Maybe even the trad pub Long Tail.

Or even trad / hybrid authors, too!

I think with the way the industry's changing, it's very likely that even trad - pubbed authors will have options for retaining (or regaining) audiobook rights at some point in their careers.

Building a solid author brand is the key to getting discovered and selling books for a self - published author (and even trad - published books).

Not exact matches

Probably even better than the other trad Finnish dessert, whipped semolina - lingonberry porridge, and definitely quicker to make.

My limit (except for Baen E-Arcs) seems to be $ 10 even for trad published authors that I have bought for years.

I came out of this episode even more determined to avoid agents and trad publishing.

Even «trad» books usually contain a few errors.

With trad publishing, you can wait a really long time to get published even after the contract is signed.

Anyway regardless of your thoughts on libraries, indie bookshops or even big bookshops, I hope this helps explain to trad and self - pubbers alike why they may not see their book on our shelves, ever.

I have no interest in or patience with stories whose plot or characters I do not care about, or those that display bad writing or poor editing (FAR too many, even from trad publishing houses).

That sounds terrible, but in fact, your marketing situation is even worse as a trad - pubbed author, for two reasons:

There is good and bad to both trad» and self publishing, and that may vary author to author or even title to title.

But what continues to get to me is when I see other writers, either those who are traditionally published or those who refuse to go indie even though they have continued to be turned down by the trads, condemning those of us who have gone an alternate route.

2) Self - publish first, build an audience, then use that to leverage yourself into a good trad deal — if you still even want one by that point.

Yes, it's a flawed process, even more so now that trad publishers are struggling to stay afloat in a sea that is rough and capricious.

Sounds like a majestic event — on the trad front, the indie front, maybe even for Amazon.

Because I view all of that as found money, and because it highlights that even if you're not madly pursuing a trad deal, good agents still have a valuable role they can play in the mix, even with indie published books.

I'd rather stay low and not even try to compete with trad pub, because I don't need to.

Even him, who was trad published and successful, got very poor results with this.

I look at indie publishing as a way to show the trad publishing industry just what an author has and what they can do for themselves, kind of like a «try before you buy» with little risk to them and, actually, little risk — even financially — to the authors.

Trad is in trouble, hybrid will work for some authors, self - publishing will work for even more authors.

In trad publishing, that process takes a year (or even longer... in my experience).

There's a lot of Chicken Littling going on, and even a guru or two saying indies will be begging to get trad contracts again.

Their trad published authors are available in every store (even ones who are in KU...), so I'm sure it's mystifying to readers too.

You can fight years and never land an agent (who is your key to the trad publishers) and even if you are able to obtain an agent you may not have any of your books accepted by a publisher... ever.

I'm solidly mid-list, and I have made more in royalties than my trad - pubbed friends even with their advances.

Even with authors who have books that are both trad and indie published.

And going trad may not require spending money up front, but you will be paying on the back end, and paying a lot: agent's fees, return reserves, and eternal rights giveaways (ebooks mean that your book will forever be «in print» so good luck getting it back even if it's selling a couple copies a year, unless the language in the contract stipulates otherwise).

That's the other advantage of indie publishing: you don't have to follow the guidelines (the ever - shifting guidelines, might I add) of the trads, whether it is a demand for massive doorstopper fantasy novels, or having to inject vampires / zombies / whatever the flavor of the month into your story, or even making sure the characters are «diverse enough.»

Many of these books will be marginal or won't have withstood the test of time, but supply will increase even more as trad pubs try to duke it out for dwindling reader dollars.

A chapter, or two, or even three is what the gatekeepers of trad publishing usually want to see going in.

Occasionally one of these authors is even invited to speak or be on a panel with trad published authors.

Individually some won't make it, collectively I think we will — just as was always the case even with trad publishing.

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

Anyway — thanks again for writing such a good article, it's certainly food for thought; and has made me even more glad that I decided to stick with the self - publishing instead of chasing the trad pub dream, ha ha!

Boo hoo, all the authors (trad pub) interviewed vilifying Amazon, talking about how Amazon is so big, mean, terrible, stealing money and food and possibly even sex from them.

It's just that the trad attitude is still used to having the crutches of «accomplishment» to support authors» egos when they have bad sales, or even no sales.

Professionals for cover, proofreading, editing (even with past and current experience with trad - pubs) offer their services for reasonable fees, so, if not for a large marketing machine, what a publisher has to offer, really?

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.

They simply assume the same rules apply to it as they do to trad publishing even though those rules are not working any longer where digital titles are concerned.

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.

As well, my concern as a professionally published author is that aggressive marketing (TV commercials, Youtube trailers, fancy websites etc.) are creating a successful viral marketing paradigm for self - pubbed fiction that has the potential to impact trad publishing & leave writers wondering «why bother with the arduous and often heartbreaking process of queries, rejection slips, the endless waiting, etc. when the neighbor simply threw up a website, hired a gang of marketing professionals and bingo, Neil Gaiman is reviewing their book before it's even published?!»

Trad publishers can't even be bothered to promote the books they're selling?

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 small presses generally price higher than self - pub, maybe even as high as trad - pub (although some are learning the advantages of low pricing).

It's also important to realize that even if you trad pub, you've still got the competition of all the talented indies.

With author Alexandra Lynwood in faithful pursuit, however, even the engaged and engaging Zacharius seems to run up on yet another interesting silence: The Silence of the Trad Authors.