Sentences with phrase «in trad pub»

Especially considering that in trad pub you'll work with professionals who do that for a living and have likely done it for a number of years.

Instead of the tsunami of crap so many predicted, a bunch of great writers who were denied a real chance in the trad pub world started delivering amazing quality at low - low prices.

For some time now we've seen how senior editors in trad pub have delegated more of the scut work to either junior assistants or primarily onto the backs of the writers themselves.

Big name authors in the trad pub world have lots of incentives to stay (they get lots of marketing $ and support).

As I close in on 50 novels published, I don't think I'm suffering from a lack of my work being available, so see no reason to kill myself on more than a novel every quarter, which in trad pub circles would be considered near miraculous, and for me would be a vacation.

Assisted self - pub: This is for the folks who are interested in trad pub because of the cover design, editing, and formatting.

Editors» abilities can vary widely in trad pub.

Kindle subcontracts editing to Kirkus and, according to Max, «it was strictly a one way street,» unlike the give and take in the trad pub editing process.

I have a friend doing very very well in trad pub.

It doesn't exist in Indie publishing,, and it doesn't exist in Trad Pub.

Yes, there are poor work in the trad pub world, particularly due to «rush publishing» and also when certain poorly skilled entrepreneurs create micro-publishing companies.

Some of the biggest indie authors first got their start in trad pub, while others never sent out a single query letter before hitting it big.

I've been fielding emails for years from readers asking why that book was priced so high when the rest of the books in the series (this is the series that started out in trad pub and that is now self pub) ranged from free to about $ 4.99.

I'd say, if I were curious / interested in trad pub and I was a self - pubbed author, I might consider offering up a purely commercial one - off, standalone.

Since turning indie I'm starting to find that audience that was so lacking in my trad pubbed days.

Now that they are bringing in trad pubbed offerings, it's even more difficult to snag a slot with them.

Heather, the thing you are overlooking in trad pubbed VS self pubbed are the indies like me who hire a professional team and follow the good parts about the NY model.

Not exact matches

In terms of trad pub vs indie — most trad publishers don't want to publish collections of short fiction by unknowns, but you can submit to magazines and anthologies as well as self - publishing collections or using them for marketing.

No trad pub in sight.

I agree completely with Jackie Barbosa above in that the real takeaway from this snippet of data is the unconscionably huge portion of earnings that the trad pubs get from each ebook they sell.

So my love for them is deeper, but I've never thought trad pubs were anything but large dominant players in a business where my goals ran toward setting up a nice cottage industry in the cracks they missed.

with trad pub in a nutshell.

I was «this close» to being offered a trad - pub contract way back in 2011, and I'm sorry to say that I would have been ignorant enough and desperate enough to take it, no matter how predatory the terms were.

My first traditionally published novel, Transgression, only sold about 6,000 copies in its trad - pubbed edition.

Books 2 and 3 in that «City of God» series are selling well and earning much better than they did in their first editions as trad - pubbed novels.

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

This is how I sold my first several books and how many of my trad - pubbed friends broke in to publishing and I have long believed it's the best way to make contacts.

But none in the traditional publishing arena, because, however lousy one reader or another may think a trad - pubbed book, at the very least SOMEBODY liked it besides the author.

That sounds terrible, but in fact, your marketing situation is even worse as a trad - pubbed author, for two reasons:

Another reason your trad pubbed books may sell well in print versions is because there are lots and lots of readers in that market — by the accounts I have read 60 - 70 % of total — and many of them prefer print, or to find reads in physical locations.

I have people writing to me on Facebook and in email and talking to me in person about how much they love my books, and here I am envying the awards and the accolades, certain that a trad pub deal was the only way I could get them.

Joe speaks boldly about his dislike of the trad pub scene and why the ball is no longer all in the publisher's court.

Indies and trad pubs alike will shell out hundreds to thousands of dollars to pull in 2,000 - 3,000 sales or 20,000 - 30,000 free downloads in a single day.

Then there is the disparity in how trad - pubbed authors and indie authors are treated as professionals.

However, we know they're elitists from things they've said in the past about self - published books being of lesser quality compared to trad pub books (how ironic that now trad pub authors are complaining more about their books having so many typos and problems when printed).

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..

Unless you were able to leverage Hugh Howey - levels of ebook sales (in which case I'm guessing Amazon would try to snap you up), I doubt a trad pub would want print rights only.

But one reason I won't be publishing a lot more middle grade is because I also like to sell books... and it's just very hard to do that in indie MG (or trad - pub MG, to be honest — the market is simply smaller).

Second, what I was saying that if Good Writer writes Good Book and sends it to either market — trad or self pub — in a proper, professional manner, they seem to have roughly equal success rates.

When a trad - pub book weighs in at $ 9.99 and you can buy somewhere between two to four times as much reading material from Indie authors, the choice seems obvious.

Literary fiction never did well in indie publishing because it depends on reviews from the big, well known journals like the New Yorker, the NYT book review, the TLS, the Guardian, the NY Review of Books, etc, and they only review trad pub.

Jim and Bryan's ho - ho - holiday episode of SMBS touched upon the popular podcast Serial, the big boost adults buying YA gave the industry, Macmillan's deal with Amazon, Konrath dropping out of KU, and what trad pubs learned in 2014.

Or perhaps someone whose books have been trad - pubbed in some countries but not in others.

It's also worth noting that the author of the AE report, Hugh Howey, admitted in comments on Chuck Wendig's blog (fourth down) that actually he earned more from trad pub last year that he did from Amazon.

I'm trading the indie ebook market (which I think the book has peaked in) for the trad pub ebook market

I think with the way the industry's changing, it's very likely that even trad - pubbed authors will have options for retaining (or regaining) audiobook rights at some point in their careers.

And one of the biggest negative effects we've now created as indie authors is denigrating the value of ebooks — specifically indie ebooks, as you'll find the trad pubs don't do much, if any, free promo — in the eyes of the audience that buys them.

The difference in income between successful traditionally published authors and successful self - published authors is getting narrower each day, with many self - published authors now making much, much more than their trad pub counterparts.

I think when the first AE report came out, July 2014, showing the sales shares of indie vs trad pub genre books, was the moment I realized that the Tra Pubs were in deep, deep, pre-processed grass and oats.

Yes, your initial trad - pub books will probably bring in less money than your later self - pubbed books, but that's not necessarily a bad trade - off.