Sentences with phrase «if trad publishing»

I don't know if trad publishing is the brass ring or not, but I know that I was always too frightened to self - pub before because I was given to understand it would ruin my chances at a «real» publishing contract.

Perhaps something from the publisher if trad published or using a small press.

Not exact matches

The difference is, trad publishing houses will print books, sell them to bookstores, then buy them back and pulp them if they don't sell (something you probably can't afford to do yourself).

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.

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.

If you look at a number of trad published authors they had pen names for their different genres and now they are moving away from that.

If a person switches from one trad publisher to another, are they «hybrid publishing?»

2) Self - publish first, build an audience, then use that to leverage yourself into a good trad deal — if you still even want one by that point.

Because I view all of that as found money, and because it highlights that even if you're not madly pursuing a trad deal, good agents still have a valuable role they can play in the mix, even with indie published books.

Most trad published e-books are priced so high (often as high if not more than the printed book) that they are pricing themselves out of the competition.

It would also be great if Author Earnings could study this, and compare the money made by a trad pub author in libraries vs an indie author's, and also the raw numbers of books trad published in libraries vs indie published.

If we put out crap, they'll tear us to fucking pieces in twelve seconds flat, whether we're indie or trad - published.

With what I know now of the publishing industry (thanks to the great blogs mentioned above, as well as the fantastic explanations offered by The Passive Voice and Rusch on the minefield of rights» grabs that are traditional publishing contracts), I would be cautious if I were ever approached for a trad deal.

Not that writers are * paying * trad publishers to be published, but in the sense that our time is worth money and (possibly) more income (certainly higher royalty rates) if we self - pub instead of choosing trad pub.

As for a trad publishing deal, if you are successful, then self - pub will not stop you getting picked up.

That said, I'm going to have to start a new series / brand targeted to a traditional publisher, and maybe later I will be able to either afford to publish my self - pubbed series on my own, or hope that if I do find a trad pub later that they might consider my previous works.

If the trad - pub path fails for this book, indie publish.

How nice it would be if there were a e-publishing service house whose mission & market was to FIND mid-listers who had proven their writing (by managing to get at least a couple of things published and bought before a trad dropped them) and make it easy for them to make the transition to indy.

If you can wade through the tone of it, there are some decent points, but they also apply to traditional publishing, especially considering how the trad publishers — not Baen — have started pushing editing and marketing off to the authors and their agents.

Over time I think trad publishers will be part of that process because «self - publishing» will replace the function of the slush pile — if not also the brokering / sifting functions of agents.

Given the realities of trad publishing, I'd be lucky if my third novel was out already.

If the trads buy up the avenues indies use to get to market, leaving the door open, but making it exorbitantly expensive to publish, they will have effectively killed off the indie movement.

If all you want to do is write... well, even if trad - published, you'll still have to do more than just write; you'll be expected to do promotion on your own, but going indy means you'll have to do a lot more of everything, If the time you can devote to writing / publishing is limited, that's something to consideIf all you want to do is write... well, even if trad - published, you'll still have to do more than just write; you'll be expected to do promotion on your own, but going indy means you'll have to do a lot more of everything, If the time you can devote to writing / publishing is limited, that's something to consideif trad - published, you'll still have to do more than just write; you'll be expected to do promotion on your own, but going indy means you'll have to do a lot more of everything, If the time you can devote to writing / publishing is limited, that's something to consideIf the time you can devote to writing / publishing is limited, that's something to consider.

If someone from a big trad publishing house came knocking on my door (metaphorically - speaking) offering a generous contract for one of my books... I would turn it down.

Given the «Bad Actors» (a new SJW term for people you don't like — or in my case, trust) in the upper echelons of the Trad Publishing establishment, who basically have everything to lose if the ship changes direction, I would say impossible.

And of course, there people at all points along the scale from A to B. I'm not sure if TWUC's standards are workable, but at least they're working on it — and they're willing to admit that not all the good authors are going through the trad - publishing gate these days.

(As an aside, I suspect if I dug into the publishing contracts with many trad pubbed authors, I'd find a clause that cuts their royalties to almost nothing when the selling price of a book is greater than a 50 % discount.

I would also love to know if there are any stats anywhere that show what % of trad published debut authors go on to get another deal after their initial deal.

Sympathies for the poor trad published author - I wonder if he realises?

The right way to look at it is that whether or not you have a trad publishing deal, doing self publishing will make you more money than if you gave it a miss — plus, you and a bunch of readers will have a lot of fun!

If there hadn't been intention to segregate via self vs trad publishing, the segregation could have legitimately and fairly done via any number of means that didn't send the message «those indie guys vs those trad folks»:

Book typos and errors can be embarrassing and frustrating, but it shouldn't be (as long as you're having your work professionally edited and proofread) since a perfect, book typo / error - free novel seems like an impossible feat to accomplish, no matter if you're self - published, trad - published, or if you're a struggling writer or a bestselling writer, even the biggest names in fiction get dinged with errors and typos.

It doesn't flippin» matter if it's trad published or indie published.

4) Indie publishing (small press or self - publishing) can be a dead - end in the traditional world if you don't have spectacular sales, so be wary of using self - publishing as a way of «getting noticed» by the trads.

Good for them, but if you're a newbie, never published before by a trad publisher, beware!

Rosalyn — I never thought of tenure being a motivation for trad publishing, but of course you would want to pursue the trad route if you're in academia.

If you think you might like to trad publish, a small press might be a good choice, but if you're fairly sure you want to self - publish, make sure you don't sign any contracts on a serieIf you think you might like to trad publish, a small press might be a good choice, but if you're fairly sure you want to self - publish, make sure you don't sign any contracts on a serieif you're fairly sure you want to self - publish, make sure you don't sign any contracts on a series.