Sentences with phrase «into trad»

I wonder why people thought the rooms were divided into Trad published and indie published.

Prior to Amazon I spent years trying to make my way into the trad world and now looking at their standard contract practices I'm glad I never made it and never will try again.

You see, every time I reach into a trad box, I take two cookies... one chocolate and one vanilla...»cause how could I not?

Not exact matches

Traditional individual retirement accounts («Trad» IRAs) allow people to invest their income pre-tax, up to $ 5,500 for 2015 and 2016, into a tax - deferred savings account.

You really need to stop buying into the indie versus trad author war.

It has more trad - pub nomenclature and you need to know your stuff before venturing into LS, so not at all something for first time publishing.

The promotion the trad pubs take care of is the catalog and sales force to get your books into the brick and mortar distribution channel, which indies don't worry about.

The problem is I think the same amount of work and effort needs to go into a self - pubbed book as a trad - pubbed one.

Eventually someone is going to come up with a way to help readers support indie authors by culling the wheat from the chaff — without turning that service into a gatekeeper, like the trad publishers have unfortunately become.

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.

2) Self - publish first, build an audience, then use that to leverage yourself into a good trad deal — if you still even want one by that point.

So many blogs these days really run trad - pub into the ground and I like and admire your balanced approach.

The question of bringing readers over from trad to self is worth taking into account, but with the lion's share of the marketing being done by the author wherever the publishing is happening, I'm not sure how much longer that will be relevant either.

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.

Although I got into the SF top * 5 * with one of my trad published novels, and it sure didn't earn $ 18,000 that month.

Those books started as trad - pub too, but now I'm so many years into self - pubbing it that I don't give it a second thought.

Add in the price factor (Print On Demand books tend to be more expensive than trad - pub print runs), and it's tough to get those paper books into kids hands.

You can self - publish some work as you continue to wait for the trad train to pull into the station.

I'd love to be trad pubbed, (don't tell the EM though, I might get left out of the next gruel round) and I'd love to be able to drop the phrase «my agent» into conversations.

If you want to turn it into a profession, it may be for you — but the difference between trad and indie is the difference between applying to a job and starting a business.

While many authors have focused on indie publishing the novels that were originally trad - pub bound, we're just beginning to move into the era where works are being created solely, from conception to completion, for publication as ebooks.

I personally believe that Trad Pub would love to see indie sink back into the ooze whence it came, and that Amazon only gave it a real boost as a lever against Trad Pub when they were getting uppity.

Given the big difference between trad's payment percentages and indy's, there should be enough money there to fund the service house AND tempt the orphaned mid-lister into trying.

So I know things will take a dive when I make the move out of Select... but it's okay, I'll be ready because I'm building deep with developing a loyal, engaged reader base and capturing them on my email list,, building broad by reaching into new markets (audiobooks, trad pub deals, film and tv) and high by developing new projects in new genres.

That's the other advantage of indie publishing: you don't have to follow the guidelines (the ever - shifting guidelines, might I add) of the trads, whether it is a demand for massive doorstopper fantasy novels, or having to inject vampires / zombies / whatever the flavor of the month into your story, or even making sure the characters are «diverse enough.»

I hope that the market forces you're talking about really do push trad publishing into being good guys.

I used to seek them, thinking I would «gain admission» to a select group of «real» writers, but now I see the trad contracts are one - way tickets into slavery.

To whit, if you wanted to bludgeon the trad pub houses into submission, who wanted to dictate terms to you, you could say, «No, we won't do that — we'll sell something else to all the kindle buyers.»

My point was that Amazon just tipped its hand, and the strategy looks like beat trad pub into submission, and once it is pliant, then continue with business as usual.

I was pointing up the differences and I think that's a point where they differ (self - pub authors generally aren't trying to get into bookstores)-- and it struck me in Saundra's article (also Elana's later) that there was as much emphasis on pitching directly to booksellers for trad - pub authors.

p.s. I'll have to think about doing that post on the sweat equity that goes into marketing self - pub vs. trad pub.

A few taunts thrown down by trad authors / agents / editors sends the goths storming the walls into a fury.

(As an aside, I suspect if I dug into the publishing contracts with many trad pubbed authors, I'd find a clause that cuts their royalties to almost nothing when the selling price of a book is greater than a 50 % discount.

Are these trad publishing houses doing some secret ninja marketing technique to tap into everyone's inner hipster?

Probably a lot of indie authors would hate me for this, but I stopped even looking into the book description if the publisher is not trad publisher long time ago.

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.

Think it was bad before when trad publishing didn't bother or couldn't get you a nice print run into stores?

My opinion is that if I am paying a bloated price for a trad pub book and the profits are going into the maw of the mothership of a multi-national corporation, instead of to the writer, then I will buy indie except for the very small list of writers (some of them yours) that I support because I consider them friends.

Also, Data Guy breaks out an additional percentage of authors who aren't trad, but aren't listed as indie or small press — I'm not sure why he chose to do that, but if we lump them into indie, which is where they may truly belong, that makes the indie % of the pie bigger in all instances.

The Big Five have not yet been tempted into Kindle Unlimited but Amazon pays trad publishers the same royalty for a borrow as they would get for a sale.

Pop into one of the pubs for a festive «trad session,» and then continue to your hotel, nestled in the heart of the Burren.