Sentences with phrase «indie authors of all levels»

Here at IU, we do our best to provide helpful information to indie authors of all levels.

Not exact matches

Luckily, that level of reader disrespect accounts for a minority of the many hard - working indie authors out there now.

Are legacy publishers and professionals so threatened by self - published authors that this level of effort goes into picking apart an argument in favor of indie authors?

As soon as he receives $ 5000 in royalties s / he also has the one additional right to vote for the Guild Board, which is the only thing that changes between the Authors Guild of America membership when entering at the $ 500 level or at the $ 5000 for Indie Authors.

The playing field is leveling, readers are propelling indie ebook authors to the top of the charts, and the field is tilting to the indie author's advantage.

The difference is that Amazon has opened the gates and leveled the playing field for many thousands of talented indie authors while both bookstore and publishers have kept the gates closely guarded.

And I do recommend that fellow indie authors who aren't yet at SFWA - qualifying levels of sales consider checking them out.

While it's by no means necessary or common for all indie authors to do this (and may not have any effect on sales), it does exhibit a level of professionalism and keeps your business income and expenses separate from your personal finances.

Unfortunately for the indie author, the track record of traditional publishers maintaining that level of sales for the author after signing a contract is poor.

It has been my mission to help other indie authors realize a high level of quality while alleviating the tedious tasks of editing and formatting by sharing the experience I have picked up along the way.

Her editing clients include traditionally published and indie authors at all levels of experience, from international bestsellers to first - time novelists.

Let me repeat: I still sometimes have to convince my indie authors to engage in the platforms that have — for the first time in the history of the written word — put them on a level playing field (in terms of exposure) with traditionally published authors.

As more readers embrace digital reading and as ebooks continue to fare well through Amazon's catalog, more traditional and indie authors can hope to achieve this level of success and fan following.

The problem with indie authors is that they are generally very bad at accurately assessing their level of skill.

Others have pointed out the unfairness of this post on multiple levels, but no one has yet stated that there are many indie authors who do take this business professionally.

It has only taken 5 years, but traditional publishers are beginning to see a leveling, a flat - lining of their sales due to the loss of authors, the rise of indie publishing, and the fact that velocity (selling a lot of books quickly) can't be manufactured any longer.

The picture that is emerging from our data collection and our look at bestseller churn is that the number of Big - 5 debuts at each earning level is relatively flat, year over year, while the number of living - wage - earning indie author debuts is growing exponentially year over year.

For a writer to make any kind of decent money at indie - publishing, the author either has to have a lot of products selling at low levels, but regularly, or the author needs to hit it big like Amanda Hocking.

As a new author, I was delighted to discover a very high level of mutual support and camaraderie in the indie author community.

As was apparent from conversations at this event, it's clear that independent writers in Germany still have a long way to go before attaining the same level of acceptance which indie authors enjoy in the US.

A slew of posts have hit the blogsphere following more of the anti-Amazon campaign coming out of the NY traditional media (which reached orgiastic levels this weekend with a Patterson ad and a NYT hatchet job), and volleyed by Amazon calling on indie authors to email Hachette's CEO in an emailed missive I first suspected might be a practical joke.

Connect with women writers of all genres and experience levels, from indie scribes to traditionally published and self - published authors.

The interpretation that I make is that the top level of sales for indie authors is astonishingly high — multiple millions of dollars per year.

Going this route would put the indie author almost on level with Amazon as far as ease / convenience of delivering serial fiction via subscription.

Although these successful indie authors write in a number of genres and categories, have different levels of experience, they all have one thing in common: they wrote and self - published because they couldn't imagine doing anything else.

While that growth has started to level off as fewer writers have unpublished novels in their closets to publish, you can still expect to go up against thousands of other motivated indie authors.

I always treat every book with the same level of respect and careful attention that it needs to become the best it can be, regardless of whether it is a big publisher, independent or an indie author.

Then we discuss the way she discovered the optimal performance level for her author business by undergoing an author reboot and fully embracing the world of indie publishing.

Tsually when you bring trad and indie together the conference is mostly a trad - minded conference that has tied down a bit a self - publishing stream or it's a couple of self - publishing bits for the trad authors who have never heard of self - publishing and so we educate in that very low level.

We're an indie author collaborative, and our authors have our help and meager investment, but not to the level of the authors published by traditional publishing companies.

From the shortened time between when a book is finished to when it reaches the market, to the unprecedented level of creative control, plus a healthy — and growing — list of the indie - published authors enjoying healthy sales, Be the Monkey does, at times, make a very convincing case for going it alone.

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There's also the fact that many houses offer indie authors an advance against royalties, which — even if an indie author is making more money by selling their book on their own — provides a certain level of long - term security.

Smashwords» announcement of preorder brought a new level of excitement to many indie authors.

Laura — I agree that Mark is a voice of reason and a major help to indie authors who want to take their career to the next level.

I believe Amazon already has the financial scope to be bolstering the KDP Select fund further to restore a decent level of overall payout on Kindle Unlimited or face growing disillusion from indie authors and withdrawals from KDP Select.

As an indie author, if you haven't achieved the level of success you want for yourself, you're not a bad writer.

We believed that the power of data could be harnessed for smarter book publishing, leveling the playing field for indie authors.

It took me a long while to learn that an indie author's level of success is a direct reflection of the breadth of their knowledge of this business.

Do your statements about how many Indie authors are making a particular level of income refer to a kind of hypothetical author, even though a particular author may have dropped off the bestseller lists and been replaced by a different author?