There, hundreds of seasoned, veteran authors — many of them strong players in US
genre midlists — will be discussing ways forward in a landscape that at times tend to look healthy only for authors of publishing houses» blockbusters and high - earning outliers of the independent - author corps.
(I will under modern copyright law and standard
genre midlist contracts, get my book back in 35 years no matter what the contract says.)
Not exact matches
There were
genre writers on both sides of the dispute, but on the publishing side were huddled the biographers, urban historians,
midlist novelists — that is, all the people who were able to eke out a living because publishers still paid advances, acting as a kind of local literary bank, in anticipation of future sales.
And incidentally, these publishing routes tend to have a keen interest in the
midlist authors, niche
genres, and minority voices traditional publishing is struggling to support.
The used book choice was particularly devastating for
midlist authors of
genre.
I'm a
midlist author writing in the Mystery, Thriller and Suspense
genre.
For some
genres like SFF, selling into libraries can make up a significant portion of hardcover sales for new and
midlist authors.
At the same time, [readers] need to be exposed to the long tail, the
midlist, the backlist, the
genre fiction.
The 3M Cloud Library offers curated «carts» and «shelves» built around
genre fiction, readalikes, and
midlist / backlist titles to simplify ebook collection development, Tempelis added.