Sentences with phrase «in trad publishing»

My mind simply boggles at bids going over 2 million, and I hope she's successful in trad publishing.

But the days of the successful «hybrid» author, with one foot in trad publishing and the other in self - publishing, could be soon over.

Nobody else in the trad publishing pipeline expects to work for free 30 percent of the time (well, maybe an agent expects to).

He is forgetting, as so many in trad publishing do, that there is a flourishing indie and small press world out there with authors who are writing books people want to read.

She has worked with Cambridge University Press, where she managed technical production cycles for books and software from development to publication, and Oberon Books, London, a specialist book publisher where she gained insight into the gatekeeping process in trad publishing.

I spent ten years and thirteen books in trad publishing until it beat me down to the point where I couldn't write for three years.

In the best of all possibly worlds in trad publishing, I'd be on novel # 2, maybe # 3.

Since I can't afford to hire any outside editors I'm rather grateful for that, bad editing in trad publishing.

It's all those ostriches and lemmings in trad publishing, at least with the Big 5 and their ilk.

In trad publishing, that process takes a year (or even longer... in my experience).

These are good points, but don't take into consideration a big change in trad publishing: the author is increasingly responsible for marketing and branding.

The majority of self - pubbed writers are not serious or realistic about it, and they would have been unlikely to have been successful in trad publishing either.

I would say I have «no interest in trad publishing» right now.

In trad publishing at least the gamble is clear — you put in the hours, you learn as much as you can about the business, and you hope.

You put out samples, you sell your work yourself, people like it, talk about it — the movers & shakers in the trad publishing industry aren't just sitting on their thumbs when they aren't reading; they're scanning the «net and seeing what people are saying about writers like you.

You need to have some selling skills in trad publishing because you have to convince agents / publishers to take a chance on you, which means mastering the secrets of the query letter and the elevator pitch.

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

As for spelling mistakes with indies, yeh, some but no more than I've found in the trad published books.

You're right — although we strive to make our manuscripts as clean as possible, it's common for the occasional error to slip through (even in trad published books).

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.

Anne, there is no question that my humour column blog (www.melodiecampbell.com — forgive the mention) was instrumental in getting me that first publishing contract at Orca Books, a large Canadian trad publisher.

We asked her a bunch of questions about what she found in regard to author income, books on sale, and whether indie or trad publishing is more likely to get a person to a living wage (which she defined as the U.S. average of $ 32,000 a year).

Especially with the limited qualifiers you added; being successful enough to traditionally publish on your own terms (which indie publishing might * get * you to) or just wanting the traditional cred in itself are the only good reasons to take the trad route.

Kozlowski is the only person I know oblivious enough to include a graph of daily ebooks showing indie books making up nearly 50 % of the US ebook market, and then in the very next paragraph babble about them only being a «drop in the bucket» relative to the trad - published side.

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

But in the writing community, those trad publishing credits are absolutely necessary for any kind of credibility * with other writers *.

I have no interest in or patience with stories whose plot or characters I do not care about, or those that display bad writing or poor editing (FAR too many, even from trad publishing houses).

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.

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).

Each of the speakers will outline over 30 minutes, their take on the what's required for success in either the self publishing or trad publishing worlds.

Trad publishing has standardized length in the last few decades, but The Great Gatsby is only about 50K words.

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).

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.

We actually talk to authors - you see a few blog posts and articles and believe we are at war but the reality is many of us know trad published authors - some are happy, some are becoming unhappy, some are in the middle of lawsuits, some are no longer writing because they couldn't afford to sue and gave up.

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).

They can write in older genres that trad publishing has tired of, like Gothic Romance or Family Saga, and make them new again.

Whether trad publishers are currently likely to be interested in series that were previously self published

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.

I'm an indy - author since trying the trad - publishing route in 2005 - 06 with my first two books (historical novels, which several agents looked at, and said regretfully that they were very good... but just not marketable.)

I find it interesting that people make this into an either / or thing, I'm doing both, indie publishing shorter works that there's no point offering a trad publisher, while my novel is in the hands of my agent.

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

I'm in the midst of pulling my trad - published writing partner over to the Dark Side.

Indie publishing forces you to rely on your own instincts in that it allows you to write stuff that a trad publisher wouldn't look at — not because it's bad, but because it's different.

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.

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.

That said, does anyone have an estimate for indie vs trad publishing shares in brick and mortar bookstores?

Yes, there is a great deal of dreck in self - published books, but have you taken a really good look at trad pubbed books lately?

It dramatically helps trad authors to buy their books in the first week, and I want my favorite authors to keep publishing.

Since we're making outlandish, provocative (and unsubstantiated) claims, I'll concur with the response that trad published authors are lazy because they don't want to put in the time and effort to produce or market their books.