Sentences with phrase «first traditional book deal»

In part 1 and part 2 of this blog post series, I explained how I landed my first traditional book deal, signed with an agent, sold more books, and then ultimately decided to leave traditional publishing behind!

After an exhaustive self - education into the publishing industry (reading books, studying websites, attending conferences, etc.), I found the key to unlock the publishing kingdom and landed my first traditional book deal.

Not exact matches

On one front, this is essential material for the first - time author pursuing a traditional publishing deal, as publishers are well known for sticking quite rigidly to genre requirements, for the purposes of selling their products (our books) to the even more hide - bound book shops, who aren't interested in buying a book unless they know where to shelve it.

Traditional publishers build their business around the typical sales curve of a print book: put a lot of copies on bookstore shelves, see what sells in the first 90 days, and deal with returns and marginal ongoing demand on most titles.

One of my books was in a box - set that hit the New York Times and USA Today bestseller lists in March, and I have my first traditional deal with Ullstein - Midnight, a German imprint, for Desecration - Verletzung.

Like many new writers, I was convinced my first book was «The Next Big Thing», and only a huge deal with a big traditional publisher would do.

And yet, it's also a strong case for at least trying the traditional path first — she was willing to take the time to put a book out on submission and was therefore able to get a deal on the table and actually see the numbers they were offering (plus clauses and timeline) before turning it down.

After failing to secure a traditional publishing deal in 2000, Mr. Bendat, a public defender in Los Angeles, paid $ 99 to publish the first edition of his book with iUniverse, a print - on - demand company.

I actually got my traditional 3 - book deal after I self - published the first book in the series.

The deal turns the traditional arrangements around 180 degrees and has the Kindle version released first with the print book following several months later.

I am a non-fiction body / mind / spirit author for a traditional publisher, and am currently working on the manuscript for the first book deal (wehew!)

But sadly there are still some influential people who believe that, first, self - published authors sell a lot of books because they are cheap (Kill Me Again is currently in the Kindle UK top 20 and only one book in the chart is more expensive) and, second, that if the writing was good, the author would be offered a traditional deal.