Sentences with phrase «get me a publishing contract»

There is a dark side to getting a publishing contract and its known in the industry as deep discounting.

Maybe if you've already got a publishing contract you'll be fine though.

Most of my friends (and I as well) got publishing contracts directly with a publisher via either a publisher herself or an acquisitions editor for a publisher at a conference.

Getting a publishing contract means finding an agent and / or pitching your book directly to editors who accept unsolicited manuscript submissions.

Finding an agent, getting a publishing contract, and having your book published by a traditional company take time.

In fact, one of the reasons I moved into self - publishing is because it became very difficult to get a publishing contract for a debut author, no matter how good they were.

I was surprised when an efriend got an audio book contract before she got a publishing contract — and without an agent.

Using someone else's platform and, in essence, tapping into someone else's audience is an imperfect solution, but it is a solution... in the same way that print - on - demand publishing isn't quite going to eclipse getting a publishing contract from Penguin, although it can come close.

Before I starting getting publishing contracts, I spent a lot of years writing and trying to become a better writer.

I can't say, «Well, I got a publishing contract, and have the benefit of everything a publisher does in production of a book.

Not getting a publishing contract has become less important as a reason.

It's a big deal to get a publishing contract!

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I had heard of writers, who used Wattpad, getting publishing contracts or movie deals, with millions of reads and thousands of followers.

Where they might matter is if you're trying to get a publishing contract with a publisher.

You don't get a publishing contract after all, or you get a contract but a worse deal than originally offered.

When I started, in the traditional world, it was very difficult to get an agent, it was very difficult to get a publishing contract, and there's lots of rejection.

The author that gets the most votes gets a publishing contract from 47North (An imprint of Amazon) as well as an advance of $ 1,500.

It is harder and harder for a professional writer, even, to get a publishing contract for a great idea.

The first thing I did as soon as I got a publishing contract was to start working on a viral promo trailer of the book.

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As Bill said in a post on his website about how he got a publishing contract, «WOW!»

When you get a publishing contract most authors receives some kind of payment advance upfront.

The fact that authors are choosing to «voluntarily» build an audience before getting a publishing contract isn't o help publishers.

So Wattpad could be the place to cut your teeth if you're an author looking to get a publishing contract or if you simply want to build up your email list.

In other words, then he could get me a publishing contract.

I would be curious to know how getting a publishing contract helps you avoid indie mistakes?

Not exact matches

He said in the interview that he is so determined to get his side of the story out that he is writing a book about what happened at the investment bank although he does not yet have a publishing contract.

today bild the number one newspaper in germany published the details of the deal for the player, fee: 42millions euros, the player get a 8 millions signing on bonus, contract to run until 2020, wages: 240,000 / week or 12,5 millions a year, the total value of the deal before bonuses exactly 100 millions!!

And now that I've got myself a nice little career as a scientist (I use the word «little» literally — I have only 15 months left on my contract), I am much more excited at the prospect of getting published.

Salinger's agent, Dorothy Olding (Paulson) also provided support, and was instrumental in his getting a lucrative contract with The New Yorker to publish his short stories.

One of my current «Book Marketing 101: How to Build Book Buzz Premium E-course» students shared her frustration today about the need to have a fan base in place to get a traditional book publishing contract.

Sure, you can send out review copies and make book trailers (not for $ 150 tho), but if an author's end goal is to attract more readers — or even a publishing contract — they first need to get their work in front of people who can help them, and that's what the IRDAs are all about.

Anne, there is no question that my humour column blog (www.melodiecampbell.com — forgive the mention) was instrumental in getting me that first publishing contract at Orca Books, a large Canadian trad publisher.

And my point of this wasn't to get down into the hundreds of really ugly contract problems in publishing contracts.

«Mark helped me get represented by Sanford J. Greenburger Associates, who then got me a contract with Sky Horse Publishing, the fastest - growing small publisher in America according to Publishers Weekly.

While most self - published authors would probably welcome the opportunity to get a contract from a traditional publisher, self - publishing companies like Infinity afford us the alternative.

The media makes a big deal about those who have scored by self - publishing and have gotten million - dollar contracts from the big houses.

In fact, she never managed to sell that first offering and I was so disappointed — I'd thought that getting an agent would be a sure - fire route to a publishing contract.

But I'm behind this whole thing not having self published anything, and now I'm getting scared I can't comfortably offer more to publishers and just be hybrid because publishers are writing up new nasty contracts to grab everything to try and STOP self publishing.

It's no big surprise when mega-bestselling novelists get renewed book contracts... but it's still nice to know they're eager to keep publishing hits.

Unless they change what they offer writers, writers are not even looking at getting a contract with a publishing house.

These days the people kids look up to are bloggers who became celebrities and YouTube personalities getting major publishing contracts.

Many of these aspiring authors have dreams of getting a traditional publishing contract, getting a lucrative book deal, making the rounds on television shows and giving interviews.

In my case, the correlation between personal contact with the gatekeepers in the publishing industry and my success in getting a contract is very clear.

If you've read anything about publishing contracts, you'll understand that the majority of authors don't get a say in how the book is edited, printed, marketed, or distributed.

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

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So, really, the most successful trad published writers did a lot of promo (unless they'd written some sort of blockbuster) so that they would get their contracts extended.

That is the clause (or clauses) in your publishing contract that tells you when you get your book back.