Sentences with phrase «for trad published»

Well, no, probably not, but author platform building is the same process for indies as it is for trad published, and most of it is done on the internet.

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

As for a trad publishing deal, if you are successful, then self - pub will not stop you getting picked up.

Rosalyn — I never thought of tenure being a motivation for trad publishing, but of course you would want to pursue the trad route if you're in academia.

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.

When I first decided to become an independent author and self - publish after having gone the trad route with nonfiction and made a few attempts to go the trad route for fiction, I knew next - to - nothing about the social media circus I was about to join.

I recently unfollowed a debut trad published author on twitter because his comments were things like «I'm having pasta for breakfast.

Quite frankly, I make more than many Trad published and I turned DOWN the trad offers because it would slow down the process of writing, interfere with my contact with the fans, cost me money and essentially make me a low paid wage slave for the «honor» of having someone else utterly control my wTrad published and I turned DOWN the trad offers because it would slow down the process of writing, interfere with my contact with the fans, cost me money and essentially make me a low paid wage slave for the «honor» of having someone else utterly control my wtrad offers because it would slow down the process of writing, interfere with my contact with the fans, cost me money and essentially make me a low paid wage slave for the «honor» of having someone else utterly control my work.

But in the writing community, those trad publishing credits are absolutely necessary for any kind of credibility * with other writers *.

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

Each of the speakers will outline over 30 minutes, their take on the what's required for success in either the self publishing or trad publishing worlds.

So for me to buy more trad published books than self because I have limited money, not because of bias, makes logical sense and has NOTHING TO DO WITH BIAS, which obviously your comments were.

This is the reality for trad - or self - publishing.

If you look at a number of trad published authors they had pen names for their different genres and now they are moving away from that.

As a writer, I will be sensitive to how I write my articles, but I will not be «politically correct» when it comes to self publishing (or trad publishing for that matter).

After the initial promotional push is over for trad pubbed books, advertising dollars go to the publishing house's next new books.

It has more trad - pub nomenclature and you need to know your stuff before venturing into LS, so not at all something for first time publishing.

Especially those of us who have been with trad publishing for a while, where the decisions about this stuff were made by other people.

As for the other 99 %, I agree trad publishing should be trying something different, because they're absolutely failing to make those assets pay off like they could.

Trad publishing also has some great things going for it, but there are also drawbacks that an author has to weigh before signing on the dotted line.

Have to disagree with some of the points on trad publishing though - For the pros you neglected to mention that the publishers distribute your book to all bookstores and e-books sites (hitting two marketing areas) A huge Pro considering most authors are battling to get their book seen and traditional publishing can do that.

However, when I wrote The Experiencers (my first novel) and consulted on the subject of trad versus indie publishing with a hybrid author who has been writing books since the 1970s, he made a good case for me to go indie.

When I first started back to writing, I thought trad publishing was all there was (except for vanity presses and such).

But we can use our trad published books to push sales for our indie books or vice versa.

As for spelling mistakes with indies, yeh, some but no more than I've found in the trad published books.

That said, does anyone have an estimate for indie vs trad publishing shares in brick and mortar bookstores?

This column caused me to go check on my first trad published book — one that I got a very good advance for 11 years ago and pretty much figure I'll never see another penny from.

These are good points, but don't take into consideration a big change in trad publishing: the author is increasingly responsible for marketing and branding.

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.

Anne — I think it was incredibly helpful for me to start out trad... because I really don't think I could have successfully self - published at the time.

I think that writers who are interested in being a hybrid for * non * financial reasons (validation, because Mom dreamed of seeing our book on a shelf at B&N), will obviously find plenty of good reasons to choose trad publishing.

It will be both interesting and instructive to see what happens next — and yes, with so many trad - published books to your hard - working credit, you will remain a hybrid author for as long as it can matter.

With what I know now of the publishing industry (thanks to the great blogs mentioned above, as well as the fantastic explanations offered by The Passive Voice and Rusch on the minefield of rights» grabs that are traditional publishing contracts), I would be cautious if I were ever approached for a trad deal.

All true — but equally so for the trad - published.

You can self - publish some work as you continue to wait for the trad train to pull into the station.

As I close in on 50 novels published, I don't think I'm suffering from a lack of my work being available, so see no reason to kill myself on more than a novel every quarter, which in trad pub circles would be considered near miraculous, and for me would be a vacation.

Many of my fav authors are traditionally published — but the trad publishers have priced the books out of my purse so now I look for those indie gems to satisfy my reading habits.

Trad - Pub Authors: Launch Big or Die In 2012, Rachelle Gardner noted the typical advance for a first - time traditionally published author is $ 5,000 - $ 15,000 per book, and most of those first - time authors do not sell through their advance, so that is all the money they will ever get from that book.

If the trad - pub path fails for this book, indie publish.

While many authors have focused on indie publishing the novels that were originally trad - pub bound, we're just beginning to move into the era where works are being created solely, from conception to completion, for publication as ebooks.

The implied worry for traditional publishers: how long will it be before trad - publishing authors do figure out that self - publishing seems to substantially enhance an author's career — creating more skepticism and criticism of the publishers?

Since I can't afford to hire any outside editors I'm rather grateful for that, bad editing in trad publishing.

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.»

How nice it would be if there were a e-publishing service house whose mission & market was to FIND mid-listers who had proven their writing (by managing to get at least a couple of things published and bought before a trad dropped them) and make it easy for them to make the transition to indy.

Another key, at least for the hybrids I know, is a willingness to engage and leveraging their trad publishing to build a network.

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!

The same is true for trad - published authors.

I wanted to thank you, not just for this article but for all your articles that try to understand the «big picture» of trad and digital publishing, and the evolving landscape for indie authors.

Bookended with more info on writing in general and tips for planning for trad or self publishing, I think it could be a marvelous resource.