Sentences with phrase «into trad publishing»

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

Not exact matches

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

(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?

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?