Sentences with phrase «going with a publishing house»

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Several years ago, the term indie meant going with a publishing house that was independent from the «Big Five» — a smaller traditional press.

I am writting my first book as we speak and having absolutely no experience with the publishing industry, I was at first thinking about going with publishing house's only, but after reading this blog entry, I am now starting to think differently.

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In contrast, many token offerings appear to have gone beyond this construct and are more analogous to interests in a yet - to - be-built publishing house with the authors, books and distribution networks all to come.

There is so much that has been going on in my world, with publishing a book, going on holiday to America (which was awesome) and then throw into the mix, moving house, that's why I have been a little quiet online of late.

Learning that the council had pursued a racist policy of allocating the best housing to white working - class families, Livingstone went public with the evidence, which was published in the South London Press.

In the previous film, Jack was the old fiction editor at the publishing house, the one let go after he got handsy with Anastasia.

Through contrivances not worth going into, Kutcher winds up house - sitting for his exacting boss, a publishing magnate played with gusto by Stamp, whose ice - blue eyes and tendency to chew on the word «schedule» (pronounced «shedule») would have any junior editor shaking in his boots.

Penguin Random House still plans to go ahead with the original publishing date of June 18 — Christian Grey's birthday.

The odds of this happening increases if you go with a smaller press or publishing house — I cringe at the book covers some «publishers» are putting out.

Self - publishing is truly great but I have a feeling it's going to be another one of those things in modern life where just because you can do it yourself doesn't mean you will be happy with the result or that the end product will be on the same level of craftsmanship than a traditional publishing house.

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.

Regardless if you self - publish or go with a traditional house, work with a professional editor — even if it costs you extra.

I can see it already: a publishing culture in which the large publishing houses don't even bother to employ editors who communicate with agents and go through the slush pile.

She said she went with a smaller publishing house so she'd still retain some input.

If you're not working with a publishing house, then it's important to make sure you hire a good editor to go over the work.

A top literary agency announced a deal with Amazon to publish electronic version of some of its authors» older titles without going through traditional publishing houses.

Just sign up with Facebook and decide whether to publish under your name or create a profile for your publishing house, and you are good to go.

Many have gone on to sign with agents and publishing houses.

IngramSpark is the go - to distributor for Indies and small publishing houses because, unlike CreateSpace, it is not in direct competition with the bookstores and libraries that order through them, which increases the likelihood of getting a physical book onto store shelves.

For a small publishing house,» going digital» can mean a lot of investment — of time and money — with no idea of how soon it will start to pay off.

not my forte... I have had other publishers offering deals etc. but if i had money to begin with i would have gone to a traditional publishing house.

I think that's why so many authors who were previously published with traditional houses have gone the self - publish route.

Bisram also chose a hybrid approach, but rather than go with an established publishing house, she created her own imprint.

Another point I'll make is that just because you've gone through an agent / publishing house doesn't necessarily guarantee you'll end up with a perfectly polished book — that's assuming you get past the minefield of scammers and charlatans looking to take your money.

She said that when it was finally rejected (because it was too similar to another book being published by a big name house), «we realized this was a concern we were likely going to run into elsewhere, so Hoover made the choice, in consultation with me, to go the independent publishing route and be the first to work with our agency in this capacity.»

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The digital publishing revolution has gone hand - in - hand with the indie publishing revolution — which is inclusive of both self - published authors and the publishing houses that don't have quite the clout of the Big Five — and it was the indie publishers who provided much of that early content that fed the original, very expensive e-readers.

Instead, you will be giving them right of first refusal, your right to publish with any other house under your name (not all publishers require this yet but more are going to it), ALL digital rights and other rights, even for technologies not yet invented, etc., etc., etc..

Don't get daunted with the cost of publishing a book, we're not talking about thousands of dollars and we're not talking about going to an upstart self - publishing house who will only rip you off.

Two years down the line I could arrive at a draft that finally satisfied me from within before I Self Published it on Kindle Platform (Honestly, I was not left with much courage to tap the doors of traditional publishing houses after all what I went through two years before).

NYT, with non fiction (even James Altucher didn't get on though he sold more books than 99 % on the NYT list)-- unless you go with the big publishing houses.

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.

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

We've seen writers who originally self - published go on to sign contracts with traditional publishing houses.

The case basically stems from authors and small publishing houses saying the current methodology is anti-competitive and customers are going to do business with the companies that lower VAT Rates.

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.

Or being picked up with a mediocre advance and being dropped after a half - assed effort on the part of a publishing house to market your new release that they have already decided is not going to make money?

There are a lot of very, very good self - published authors out there, with good reasons for publishing their own work rather than going through publication houses.

Her success quickly landed her a publishing deal and in this interview we find out exactly how this career / corporate coach went from never haven written a book to signing a contract with a publishing house.

At the time that she was expecting to receive remarks from her editor at the publishing house, she instead received a letter telling her they were going with a ghostwriter to finish the series.

Authors today have options with self - publishing, but going indie could divert a new author before he / she gets the full feedback of submitting to publishing houses & agents or taking the care to learn the craft.

Acquiring editors today have fewer resources with which to work on manuscripts and have to go into those editorial - board meetings with high - grade goods to convince their publishing houses to acquire a book.

While you may have success going with a traditional publishing house, agent, or small press, you might also want to consider self - publishing if your query responses start to get stagnant.

I am going to start a series of blog posts where I'm going to talk about my experiences in negotiating a traditional publishing contract with an Indian publishing house.

A: After having more than 20 books published through traditional, commercial publishing houses, I decided to take the self - publishing route with my newest project, a picture book titled The Sound in the Basement, about a young boy who tries to overcome his fear of going into the basement alone.

With many that go traditional, the main motive is the stamp of quality that publishing through a conventional house supposedly confers.

Some are also published by larger houses - I know Sarah has some work going on with Baen, a house dear to many of us for the quality it puts out.

It doesn't matter if he decides to self - publish or to go with a big publishing house.

Your efforts are really impressive, and you've already beat the odds by going from self - published to traditional house with St. Martin's (no small fish).