Sentences with phrase «going trad»

I tried going the trad pub way at first.

They've really learned, and the service they're providing now is just wonderful, painless for an author, and as they pay monthly by direct deposit, and have absolutely transparent accounting so you can see your book sales on a moment - by - moment, authors are better off than ever going Trad.

And going trad may not require spending money up front, but you will be paying on the back end, and paying a lot: agent's fees, return reserves, and eternal rights giveaways (ebooks mean that your book will forever be «in print» so good luck getting it back even if it's selling a couple copies a year, unless the language in the contract stipulates otherwise).

Going the trad route would have been no guarantee either.

And since the onus of marketing is vastly on me and my coauthor (something else many self - publishing authors don't realize — they'll have to do the majority of book promotion themselves regardless of how they publish), there hasn't been a real advantage to going the trad route.

(Really though, if you are going the trad route, don't you have a better chance if your manuscript is well edited when you submit it?)

If going trad, decide if you are going to try for publishers where you need an agent or if you are going to a publisher that has open submissions.

For example, if you are dead - set on going trad - pub, the chances of you making enough money in the beginning is fairly remote.

There are still a lot of people who think going trad makes your work legitimate somehow.

When I first decided to become an independent author and self - publish after having gone the trad route with nonfiction and made a few attempts to go the trad route for fiction, I knew next - to - nothing about the social media circus I was about to join.

Self - pub, go the trad route, whatever.

Many go indie in the hopes that their book will be discovered by traditional publishers, only to find that after doing all the work it makes no sense to go trad.

And that writers opting to go indie / self pub are at least as realistic as those opting to go trad.

If it's not what it's cracked up to be, I don't have to go trad - pubbed the next time.

Sure, if you go trad you'll get a big fat check so you'll be able to quit your day job and spend some quality time with the ol' muse... oh, wait, no; if you win Slush Pile Lotto, your prize is one third of a pretty mediocre check that may pay a month or two of rent during the six months before the book is done and you get the second third of said check.

(http://grumpyoldbookman.blogspot.co.uk/) Mr. Allen very kindly advised that I should give a go for a year to go the trad - pub route, which involved trying to attract the interest of an agency — and then, if nothing came of it, going indy.

If they still want to go trad, that's their choice!

Writing, whether you go trad or indie or both, requires output.

I doubt He has a view on whether one self - publishes or attempts to go the trad route.

There's no way that would have happened if I went trad.

If I went trad, and I had the chance, there's no way I'd have all these bestsellers.

A lot of authors choose to go the trad.

Thanks for at least validating my desire to go the trad pub route!

If I went trad, I could talk about how great it was to be indie, but would my walk match my talk?

I come from an entrepreneurial business background and I had been writing probably for on and off just to amuse myself for the last 15, 20 years but I never really submitted anything or considered trying to go the trad route.

This is why literary writers usually do better when they go the trad.

Not exact matches

I enjoy music trad, pop, rock, classical.my favourite singer is Josh groban I love going to the...

Enter 2049 and whilst nearly all had concerns that it was just going to sully the original, I went in with no such concerns and came out feeling that it had taken the themes of the original and improved on them in almost every single way — and anyone who can get such a superb performance out of Harrison Ford after his utterly cringe - worthy «trad - dad» turn in the awful The Force Awakens needs to win every directing award going!

I was discussing this with someone yesterday, going back and forth at possible explanations, which included that self - pubbed authors tend to work the review mines harder than their trad pubbed peers, or have more support from other indie authors reviewing, or get higher ratings due to the generally lower price of the work (greater satisfaction due to a price / performance expectation).

I always said I would consider trad if an offer came, but most likely go indie.

Going indie in genres where the publishers aren't interested (and making more money as an indie than in trad publishing!)

She got so much buzz about her decision to turn down a trad pub contract to go indie, that everyone wanted to read or at least look at the book.

A collective seemed the ideal «third way» between trad publishing and going indie.

They decided early on to fleece indie authors by charging exorbitant prices — when we all know trad pub pays pennies for each ISBN they use — and indie authors decided that they weren't going to play along with this little game.

If book «x» is trad published and successful enough to sell, let's say, 20,000 books (or whatever, just a number I grabbed at), and book «y» is indy published and sells the same amount, there is no doubt that the author of the indy book is going to be FAR better off.

I know KR and DWS are very down on agents, but they were already established authors who had built reputations through trad publishing before they went indie.

In my mind, as long as someone isn't mortgaging their home, going indie is always lower risk than seeking trad publication to the exclusion of all other options.

A publisher friend of mine assures me that trad publishers still get greater visibility for their books in ebook stores (unless it hits the Amazon top 100) and you only have to look at what pops up when you go anywhere and you can see the truth in that.

There are a few bad apples among the trad published, but far more in the self - published ranks (and stop reading that I mean ALL self - publishers, or I'm going to start recommending that you get glasses).

Decide whether you want to go indie or trad with it.

I went to an author talk by a trad pubbed author and she had to buy a copy of her own book at the bookstore because her contract doesn't allow her to buy copies of her own book at a discount from the publisher.

I seem to be perfectly able to separate out good indie reads from bad ones and really I'd have to go through that process of elimination with trad pubbed books as well.

If you wrote and published just a little bit more and did some of these as self - pubbed books at a lower price range to go along with your trad pub deals, I'll bet you could make a lot more.

With that goes risk — a DIY setup doing a trad - pub style 10k hardback print run is a huge risk in terms of warehousing, returns etc..

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

After the initial promotional push is over for trad pubbed books, advertising dollars go to the publishing house's next new books.

Trad publishers only go in one direction.

Trad publishing also has some great things going for it, but there are also drawbacks that an author has to weigh before signing on the dotted line.

But what continues to get to me is when I see other writers, either those who are traditionally published or those who refuse to go indie even though they have continued to be turned down by the trads, condemning those of us who have gone an alternate route.

The problem is I think the same amount of work and effort needs to go into a self - pubbed book as a trad - pubbed one.