Sentences with phrase «from trad»

Hanging it with the other plates boosted the display from trad to rad.

I love this pic from Trad.

Rich wood floors anchor an eclectic mix of furnishings, from trad white sofas in the sitting area and cane - backed stools at the breakfast bar to exotic statues and objets from around the world.

At that rate you could withdraw some from taxable accounts, take modest cap gains, then pull from your trad IRA / 401k / 457 up to the top of the 15 % bracket (which would keep your cap gains tax at 0 %).

Rolling over an IRA from trad to Roth counts as an IRA distribution.

Per your previous question on trad IRA, distributions from a trad IRA are taxed (as ordinary income) except a prorated portion of the basis.

Now, the latest rules springing from the cliff, included the ability to convert from Trad 401 (k) to Roth, so if you wish to convert on a regular basis, that's fine, just brace for the tax bill or account for it in regular withholdings.

So far I have made more money from trad, but I firmly believe in the freedom of indie publishing (my latest book, Joe Coffin, will be indie published as I can not see how it would fit with a regular publisher) and I also believe that in the long run I will make more money down the indie route.

The next time you read a so - called news article proclaiming ebook sales to be falling, take a closer look and you'll find the «survey» is based on figures just from trad publishers, who are, as you can see, losing the ebook market to Amazon and indies.

One of the major reasons seen for the seismic shift from trad to indie is the return to agency pricing by the Big 5, which has brought sharp rises in ebook prices from the trad publishers.

The shift in the book business has been driven by readers moving away from trad publishers» ebooks toward indie - published and Amazon - imprint - published ebooks which now account for almost 60 % of all Kindle ebooks bought in the US, and 40 % of all consumer dollars spent on ebooks.

I share discounted or free titles from trad and self published authors I love, blog post links and general upbeat stuff, along with the occasional self - promo post.

Joanne Phillips made the observation in her post that indie authors trying to do the work of a whole publishing house's publicity department is never going to work, and we had to realise that indie publishing is completely different from trad.

Despite the frustration and bitterness they hear from their trad - pub - aspiring or trad - pub - abandoning peers, these indie writers are sanguine.

(However that is determined) This, more than anything, probably accounts for a lot of wretched, nasty contract terms and disrespectful attitudes from trad pubs — from their point of view they're risking bankruptcy with every copy out the door.

First, I bet you dollars to doughnuts that almost every e-book you've purchased from a trad publisher is filled with DRM (there are a few exceptions, like Baen).

As a self publisher, I really don't do that much more work than I hear from my trad - pub brothers and sisters.

I just have this delirious notion that if I could just get that little leg up from the trad world, I'd work like heck to fan those merger little flames on my own, with social media and great writing, and perhaps, eventually, get a little fire rolling over here... lol Dreamer... nothing but a Dreamer... lol

The other is that since Amazon got lower prices from trad publishers, the price of trad pubbed books is through the floor.

I've met a lot of authors from the trad world who weren't happy with their covers, the relationship with the editor, or lack of overall marketing support, and while I think indie pub may be more work than some people want to put in, it bears serious consideration.

This comment struck me (via Nathan Bransford's blog), from a trad - published author, Kate Milford (abbreviated):

I had heard of too many wannabe published authors who had been waiting for years for either a book deal from a trad publisher, or even an agent to pitch for them.

Rights are one area where there is a huge positive difference from trad pub.

Under certain conditions authors can request the book's rights back, which is very different from trad pub.

Submissions get a response within 45 days, so the time investment is also a fraction of what is expected from a trad publisher.

A good debut author who might have earned $ 3k to $ 5k from a trad publisher now earns that much or more by self - publishing.

An author with a strong brand and a good following who might have earned $ 100k from a trad publisher now earns (in some cases) seven figures.

A more seasoned author who might have earned $ 20k to $ 50k from a trad publisher now earns (in some cases) six figures.

I have to admit I've never seen that in an indie — any more than I've seen obvious OCR errors like I have from trad published e-books because they can't be bothered to proof the e-book after scanning in the hard copy.

Considering how many bad covers I see coming from trad published books, do you hold them to the same standard?

If the work had merit they would coordinate setting the author up with all those necessary functions normally expected from trad pub like cover development, final copy edit, marketing and promotion, adding the polish to take a book indie with better chance of success.

When someone from the trad.

Meg — It is a huge advantage to bring over our readers from trad - pub to self - pub... no question.

Yes, things kind of suck for indie authors right now, but accepting abysmal terms from a trad house that pays pennies on net, would definitely suck.

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Howey, Konrath, etc. are inspiring — but they had a fan base from trad pub before they went indie.

Pretty sure I'd choose to make a black and white change from the trad pub titles to my own pubbed titles.

Personally, I can see myself ending up a hybrid author because while my novels might benefit from trad pubbing, I can't see my poetry finding a home there.

The question of bringing readers over from trad to self is worth taking into account, but with the lion's share of the marketing being done by the author wherever the publishing is happening, I'm not sure how much longer that will be relevant either.

It's one thing to say that indie publishing is a successful alternative to trad publishing and worth pursuing, and that there are notable success stories — especially among trained, highly motivated authors — most of them with established name from trad pub backgrounds.

I get that I'm supposed to be more upset about this paid review service, but what Locke did doesn't look different to me than Kirkus Reviews (and, as you point out, other favor trades from trad pubbing that are entrenched and go unremarked.)

Such a system would benefit the indies and hurt the Trads, because readers would see that there is a lot of fine writing in the indie ranks that compares favorably to the work coming from Trad.

It's also worth noting that the author of the AE report, Hugh Howey, admitted in comments on Chuck Wendig's blog (fourth down) that actually he earned more from trad pub last year that he did from Amazon.

Most authors who go with them from Trad Pub speak very highly of them.

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).

I tend to keep with the above list, especially for science fiction and fantasy, because that is how print books in those genres (from trad publishers) open their books.

A self - pubbed book should be indistinguishable from trad.

Not exact matches

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