Sentences with phrase «indie pub»

What makes this especially interesting is the fact that Sony is officially backing this project — they posted an article about the kickstarter & the games on the Official Playstation Blog and Sony is also giving them funding via the Indie Pub fund.

This week's indie pub love goes out to Smashwords» Mark Coker, self - publishing author - enabler with his wildly successful publishing engine.

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For this and so many other reasons, a big indie pub smooch to Smashwords!

Yes, in fact, if you are a traditionally published author for 30 years and then you indie pub your reverted backlist, it IS ok for you to sit and wait for the money to roll in.

Bestselling author and indie pub guru, Jeff Shelby led us on a few wonderful forays into e-publishing.

Indie pub gets the book out a lot faster.

With indie pub I have time to slowly build an audience, so I don't have to worry about release day sales figures.

Start by reading Brook McIntyre's detailed article on the possibilities of found communities, from critique groups to Meetups to NaNoWriMo to groups like Indie Pub Austin.

I've met a lot of authors from the trad world who weren't happy with their covers, the relationship with the editor, or lack of overall marketing support, and while I think indie pub may be more work than some people want to put in, it bears serious consideration.

And the economic reasons why it makes more sense to indie pub, ala «Author Earnings».

The fact of the matter is that the indie pub revolution is here.

-LSB-...] matter whether you think indie pub is the way to go or traditional publishing rules all, there is always someone to prove you are empirically wrong.

The Kindle sample feature is a godsend for self - pub / indie pub writers and I don't honestly feel writers push it enough.

Francine, it seems I've seen such a site, but maybe one of those more knowledgeable about Indie pub will stop by to respond on this subject.

If terms could be better for writers, then I think many of us would feel better about going with trad pub / indie pub.

I can go through an indie epub (or self pub) and get up to 50 % (100 % if I do it myself) and make that much on a 3.99 book if I sold 5000 copies of my ebook with an indie pub or 2500 copies of my self - pubbed book.

To each his own and have no shame in indie pub.

Indie pub giants like Bob Mayer and Hugh Howey are big audio advocates, calling audiobooks «an essential part of the «long tail» that is the core of success for an author» and part of your «media empire.»

On the other side, you've got folks suggesting that indie pub authors suffer from the Dunning - Kruger Effect, which is a polite way to say that many of them are idiots with superiority complexes.

I know indie pub authors who have managed to quit their day jobs.

No matter whether you think indie pub is the way to go or traditional publishing rules all, there is always someone to prove you are empirically wrong.

On a related note, I noticed the indie pub workshop was not listed on Highlights calendar this year.

(Motivation for the post: there has been so much change in the indie pub world lately, I want to get this out now.

As a writer who is finishing Volume II, This Changes My Family and my Life Forever, and marketing (release date, December 20) Volume I, This Changes Everything of The Spanners Series, I am also writing, marketing, learning about ebook publishing, indie pub networking and methods, editing / revising, weighing in on cover art for Volume I (thanks, #Willowraven!)

But me and my newly hatched and soon to be fledged Indie Pub «Clockwork Press»?

When AgeView Press Indie pubbed the book FLYING SOLO in May of 2012, the author, Jeanette Vaughan immediately began tracking sales.

But paper books are alive and well, and indie pubbing writers who are on the ball and paying attention to the industry are selling them — online, yes, but also here and there in bookstores, more and more as time goes on.

And indie pubbing writers can get paper books into bookstores now.

I would just point out that not all indies buy Bowker ISBNs as many use CreateSpace's or Amazon's ASINs for e-books, so the number of books indie pubbed in the US is probably much higher than that?

I'm continually thankful that I indie pubbed my first novella back in 2011 — I was able to make my mistakes early on when it wouldn't hurt me as much.

In terms of what they review, Robin said the emphasis was on the mainstream audiobooks from major publishers but «we also review Indie pubs and take submissions from all publishers.

Or to the thousands of women writing and publishing romance (both traditionally as well as indie pubbing) who also work, either part time or full time.

Even my magazine subscriptions automatically renew unless I say no.:) I think it's a prime opp for indie pubbed authors to get some great exposure!

IndieReCon will help you learn all the secrets about the indie pubbing industry and help you succeed.

These days, I'm reading much more indie pubbed books than traditionally published works.

So, I felt it was my duty to email a few of the shows and ask politely for them to be real journalists and talk to the «other side» (ie: us, self - pubs and indie pubs).

I appreciate all the details on self - publishing, but I would love to see what the real rate of return is for indie pubs.

Indie pubbed books aren't the only ones that can be considered «crap» Are Traditionally Published Books Really Better?

Since it's new to me, and I'd been looking for a means to reach out to libraries for my indie pubbed and backlist novels, I thought I'd share what I found.

I'm amazed at how the indie pubbing market has exploded.

I like having a publisher behind me, but I've also enjoyed the flexibility that comes with indie pubbing.

So I'm self - Indie - pubbing, Indie pubbing, and still have an agent out hawking two titles.

So many of my friends tell me indie pubbing is not as hard as I fear, and if I get productive and inspired enough to write more books, I might drag my scared, reluctant butt into it.

But if you're an aspiring indie pubbed writer you shouldn't let that stop you.....»

I would go NUTS to meet him or Cory Doctorow or Polly Courtney or, of course, the «Elvis of Indie Pubbing», Johnny B. Truant!

Then indie pubbed people talk about how traditional authors are letting themselves get totally screwed, they refer to Big Publishing like they're evil overlords, and they talk about how so many horrible books get published traditionally every day.

Not exact matches

Sony Computer Entertainment America has announced that PlayStation Pub Fund is bringing in a bevy of indie games to both the PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 4, including smash hits Spelunky and Blacklight: Retribution.

In addition to the back - end financial support from Pub Fund, SCEA's program that supports platform - defining content being self - published by indie developers on PSN, the Sportsfriends designers are crowdsourcing additional front - end financing through Kickstarter, a funding platform for grassroots, creative projects.

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.