Sentences with phrase «get midlist»

«A lot of times we get midlist authors who have a difficult track to overcome, and that's something we've become good at.»

I was a midlist writer getting midlist attention, and the midlist was starting to feel like purgatory.

Not exact matches

The second post of discussion was getting S&S support for Kindle Unlimited and contributing their backlist and midlist titles to help legitimize the new platform.

Companies like Libboo have recently launched a daily feature based on traffic generated called The Midlist, designed specifically to highlight worthy books that are getting some traction, while not necessarily being top of the list bestsellers.

I'm not talking about getting rich or even being able to quit my day job; I just mean having a decent supplementary income and a reasonably sized, loyal readership — call it low - to - mid «midlist» level.

But it's getting more and more possible for midlist authors to find an audience of appreciative readers and make a living or at least pay some bills as self - published authors and it's because of the rise of eBooks and online distributors like Amazon.

But as a midlist writer like me, or if you write mystery, romance, SF / F, YA (non-blockbuster YA... not Hunger Games / Divergent), then there's a limit to what you're getting back.

(I will under modern copyright law and standard genre midlist contracts, get my book back in 35 years no matter what the contract says.)

The Business Rusch: Bad Decisions and The Midlist Writer (Changing Times Part Fifteen) Kristine Kathryn Rusch Last week, I ended my blog with this happy thought: «Looking in my crystal ball, I worry that the writers who will get scammed, who will lose actual fortunes, won't be the beginners or the bestsellers.

Of her post today, Judy says, «I've always been convinced that as writers we share a unique kind of fragile ego, regardless of where we are in our writing careers — trying to get an agent or publisher, first book being published, hanging onto the midlist, or even when we are blockbuster best sellers.

My current midlist book is released by Random House, and I've only managed to get four reviews at small blogs so far.

Distribution directly to the readers became possible, the silliness of thinking of self - publishing as a bad thing got shot in the head after fifty years of life, and some midlist writers finally got completely sick of the bad contracts and even worse treatment from traditional publishers.

I know what support the midlist get, which is a long way under that.

When they can't get into Bookbub (50 % of the slots are sold to the Big 5 traditional publishers, so it's a pretty fierce competition), we stack and stagger the second - tier promo sites like E-Reader News Today (ENT), One Hundred Free Books (OHFB), The Midlist and Free Kindle Books and Tips (FKBT).

But I began to get the distinct impression that midlist authors were not exactly being developed anymore.

If a fiction model were devised for libraries, it would most likely follow the cartel bundling model: pay X amount of $ a year, get all the ebook versions of the bestsellers from Publishing House Y. Add a few extra 000s to that subscription price and they'll throw in their back catalog of midlist authors.

And the midlist self - pub authors can get just as squeezed because they don't yet have enough word of mouth and name recognition.

Midlist, debut, and small - pressed authors get only a little help from their publishers.

Once in a publishing house, there was a third barrier to jump: get out and stay out of the midlist and hit the top.