Sentences with phrase «indie novelist»

I don't care if you are a traditionally published novelist, an Indie novelist or a supposedly «unbiased» journalist.

Compare this to the business plan of the average indie novelist: «I just finished a new book.

So, as an indie novelist I can not only squirt out a new baby every four months (from outline to Kindle), but I can also incorporate reader feedback and adapt on the fly (sometimes as quickly as 24 hours).

Saiswaroopa is an Indie novelist who writes Hindu Mythological fiction.

The Canada Writers» Union's announcement of a two - tier memberships for traditional and independent authors is rejected by Canadian indie novelist Maia Sepp.

There is a great future for Indie novelists.

If they have good product, many first time indie novelists can and do make trad pub advance numbers.

As the author of the highly successful John Milton thrillers, Mark has become one of the most successful indie novelists working today — in large part thanks to his keen understanding of book marketing and Facebook Advertising in particular.

I always love hearing about successful indie novelists.

Because they have less regard for the traditional way of doing things, and because they tend to be more experimental and bigger risk - takers, many indie novelists have started incorporate keywords into the novel subtitles in the way that memoirists and self - help authors are encouraged to do.

The former editor - in - chief of Del Ray (Random House's speculative fiction imprint), Betsy Mitchell, complained that her business is drying up; she said indie novelists aren't willing to pay $ 3,500 for the kind of top - notch professional editing job she can offer.

Not exact matches

** Conflating teen angst with the titular disaster, indie graphic novelist Dash Shaw's debut animated feature follows three awkward Tides High newspaper reporters as they discover administrative neglect of earthquake safety standards just before their institution drops into the sea.

Learning all this before going indie as a novelist has stood me in good stead — I'm not afraid of marketing!

It's the professional organisation for self - published writers and indie authors all over the world, launched by bestselling novelist Orna Ross just over two years ago.

I became intrigued by this topic when as an author with two dozen e-books on Smashwords I read founder Mark Coker's «2013 Book Publishing Industry Predictions — Indie Ebook Authors Take Charge,» Among other things, Coker noted that «If Amazon could invent a system to replace the author from the equation, they'd do that,» and went on to describe how one innovative publisher, ICON Group International has already patented a system that automatically generates non-fiction books, and he worries that as the field of artificial intelligence increases, «how long until novelists are disinter - mediated by machines.»

To understand the industry and manage your career, there's Closing the Deal on Your Terms by Kristine Kathryn Rusch, The Everyday Novelist: Business 101 by Daniel Sawyer, From Dreamer to Doer by Jude Wilhoff, Killing the Top Ten Sacred Cows of Indie Publishing by Dean Wesley Smith, Write It Forward: From Writer to Successful Author by Bob Mayer, Pros and Cons by Jody Lynn Nye and Bill Fawcett, and The Science Fiction Professional by Mike Resnick.

The public is encouraged to attend and meet dozens of local indie authors, poets, and graphic novelists, and to discover new talent.

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

The self - publishing world is full of traditionally published novelists who went indie because they developed in a different direction after their first published works.

I've had traditionally published bestselling author Jack Whyte refer to me as a «colleague» and «fellow novelist» and he has told me how well I've done, especially as an indie author (I will always consider Mr. Whyte as my writing mentor, he's taught me so much about the craft).

Indie publishing is flourishing, experimenting with genres usually reserved for fringe novelists in the past.

GoodEReader.com has covered the need for more viable author - centric platforms that would allow indie graphic novelists and artists to self - publish their own works electronically.

Enter the emerging tools of the Indie ebook novelist.

The Indie ebook novelist lives in a world of tags, LCD's, SEO, design, tweets, content marketing, pajamas, likes, coffee shops, fans, (sometimes dirty diapers) and usually hard liquor.

And to this Indie ebook novelist it seems inevitable that the ebook will blow open our tidy genre classifications for the benefit of all.

In her appearance at September's Novelists Inc (NINC) First Word Day conference programme, which explored indie authors» international opportunities, ALLi founding director Orna Ross talked about the basic options:

Occupations: published indie author, MG / YA fantasy / scifi action / adventure novelist, blogger, beekeeper, outdoor sports, amateur herpetologist, scientist

DEBORAH SWIFT Historical Novelist About - Author of #historical fiction, ex costume designer, history, art and nature fan (currently both trad and indie published)

I am a published novelist myself who specializes in copyediting and proofing both fiction and nonfiction for indie aut...

One of my goals as a novelist is to try indie publishing and traditional publishing to find out what works best for me as I work toward my writing and publishing goals.

Indie romance novelist Sylvain Reynard has inked a substantial seven - figure deal with Penguin Group's Berkley imprint for her paranormal romance Gabriel's Inferno (which started as Twilight fan - fiction).

Best - selling spy novelist Barry Eisler and successful thriller novelist and self - publishing advocate Joe Konrath's ebook Be the Monkey is a sprawling discussion as recorded on GoogleDocs; a loud cheer for what they call «indie - publishing», and an autopsy of the publishing industry as it transitions from a paper - based model to one dominated by digital texts.

A number of novelists were daring the unthinkable — they were going indie.

Ron Callari presents New York Comic Con Includes Indie Authors this Year posted at Blogs on Self - Publishing by Ron Callari, saying, «Have you not attended New York Comic Con in the past due to traditional publishers and established graphic novelists hogging the spotlight?

And of course, in this new world, I'm not talking about the growing number of novelists making a living indie publishing.

Some of what we say will be useful to non-fiction writers too, but our target audience for this series is composed of novelists who want to indie publish their work.

We start off with an indie's take on Independence Day, some formatting help, the growth of e-books, advice from a pro, and a novelist who used self - publishing to leap to his goal.

One of the most interesting narrative driven indie titles in development is The Novelist.

It was developed by a local indie team and a number of high - profile experts with international experience, including Joshua Ortega, an established novelist, comic - book writer and writer for the popular console game Gears of War 2.

For our first two seasons of Boss Fight Books, we teamed up with a diverse and exciting group of writers, including game developers, games journalists, novelists, actors, a researcher of Japanese culture, a web developer, and an indie games advocate.