Sentences with phrase «go with a major publishing house»

Within traditional, the options were to go with a major publishing house — the New York Big 6 — or a small publishing house.

One major reason authors used to need to go with major publishing houses is that only through them could they get their books into bookstores.

It's hard but I'm certain I want to take the time to get a good agent and go with a major publishing house.

Not exact matches

Instead of self - editing, and making my own cover, and throwing it onto KU, I started my own company, and I decided that I was going to release a book that was competitive with and indistinguishable from a release by a major publishing house.

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Even if your books are published by a major New York house, unless you're Jonathan Franzen or Sue Grafton, chances are no one's going to be buying ads for your book or even helping you with your social media or website.

But like the much heralded success of authors Amanda Hocking and John Locke, both of whom have each sold more than one million copies of their self - published ebooks before going on to sign contracts with major publishing houses, Wilkinson is open to the idea of traditional publishing and has already heard from some print publishers, although he admits he didn't set out to be an author.

One other friend of mine left he was in the real estate space wrote a book with with a major publishing house and then a few years later stopped he left real estate and went into a really strong personal development business and the publisher went up well you're not promoting this book anymore and they took his book word - for - word and put somebody else's name on the cover of it and just put a new introduction on it no credit to anybody he had worked because he had two co-authors help him with it because he's dyslexic so they essentially were the ones that wrote it and he provided a lot of the content and the publisher gave those other authors no credit took his name off and put somebody else's name on the front and then the publisher was 100 % within their rights to do it so you know there's a lot of things that I challenge people to kind of think about what's important and if you're putting all your expertise into this book you want to make sure that somebody's negotiated a heck out of it giving you a contract that actually makes sense for you and your business.

Even though I worked with Random House and all the other major publishers, I often advise my clients «Let's go that self - publishing route.»

This search enhancement is going to be a tremendous boost to indie authors who've put their titles in the subscription catalog through Smashwords» agreement with the company, as it will let Scribd's membership find new titles without having to have the boost of advertising dollars from the major publishing houses.

You write in a vacuum or for a professor who frowns on genre; you workshop with other writers; you craft a query letter; you appeal to the tastes of an intern at a literary agency; you claw your way out of the slush pile; you hope to win over an editor at a major publishing house; your book comes out a year later and sits spine - out on a bookshelf for six months; it gets returned to the publisher and goes out of print; you start over.

In addition to forcing Apple to allow third - party ebook store links, it also asked that the company's existing agreements with five major publishing houses — which each settled its antitrust case with the DoJ, rather than go to trial — be invalidated.