Sentences with phrase «know about being an indie»

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Even after The Disaster Artist gave his own story and his cult - classic indie film The Room — largely regarded as the worst movie ever made — new prominence, little is known about where he comes from or who he truly is.

About Blog iDevBlogADay was created by a small group of indie developers eager to share their know - hows with others.

And don't listen to the crap about how budget games are short, I tend to have the most fun with indie games and I have sunk 11 hrs into the game, and I am on floor 22 and I don't know how many floors there are but there is an achievement for getting to floor 50.

CRUST is a new indie horror film starring some of the genres favorite stars, and to be honest, not much is know about the project at...

But the era of the low - budget indie film had arrived and all anybody wanted to know about was how low the budget was, did I have a great backstory about the film getting made, and «what was I trying to say about the suburbs.»

«Calvary» is the second of a trilogy that began with «The Guard,» Ireland's most successful indie ever, a comic take about a policeman in County Galway (also played by Gleeson) who has seen enough of the world to know that there is not much too it, and who teams up with a humorless FBI agent in pursuit of a drug ring.

Esquire cool interview with the director of John Wick: Chapter 2, a former stuntman Stage Buddy on a new book about the immortal classic Casablanca Vox an excellent piece on AMC's Humans and how it differs from HBO's similarly AI themed but wildly different Westworld NYT Harvey Fierstein's Torch Song Trilogy to return to the stage Indie Wire Tulip Fever gets pushed back AGAIN even though it was supposed to open in less than two weeks Silver Screening Room on the Adapted Screenplay race of 1976 for reasons I do nt know but I enjoyed

«THIS WILL BE REJECTED» If you know anything about the strenuous process of getting films into festivals, this indie feature will resonate with you.

Over the course of the next few weeks and months then, we'll be using this space to keep you Gamewatchers appraised of all the indie titles that we feel you should know about.

The premise doesn't instill a ton of enthusiasm, I know, but Nelson is an interesting triple threat and this could overcome the «indie ensemble drama about crime» trappings.

* Asked how he feels about going from very small indie films to a massive, effects - driven fantasy / comedy, Green said: «Well, just like probably all of you guys like to see different kinds of movies every week — a little of this, a little of that — it's fun professionally to, like, get in the ring and design creatures and have guys in suits and puppets and just, y ’ know, bring in all this stuff... I remember when I was a kid, and if something like «Behind The Scenes of Return of The Jedi» would come on, I'd just be glued to the screen, wishing that one day I'd be able to get my hands dirty doing something like that.

I'm into all types of movies — I'm trying to make a horror film (next), and there's some indie movies that'd cost about $ 5 to make that I'd like to do — but this was a chance for someone to write a check for a big - budget comedy, and to be able to do something as balls - out as this one... y ’ know, I'm gonna take advantage of that!»

Yet Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead have still managed to carve out their own little niche in the market with this film, a daring fusion of grindhouse genre fiction with indie romance that somehow uses those seemingly opposed elements to transcend and forge a tale about the power and uniting force of love, no matter how star - crossed and unlikely its subjects may be.

Written, directed, and produced by its star, Tommy Wiseau — an enigmatic figure about whom little more is known now than when the film came out over a decade ago — The Room is regularly celebrated with midnight screenings at indie movie theaters around the world, by a rabid fan base that upholds such sacred traditions as hurling plastic spoons at the screen during one key scene.

The «indie» umbrella can be wide, and these comics cover a lot of different story types and styles, but you can find just about any comic you've ever wanted and maybe a few you never knew you needed.

But the «Unity Engine Path» was a terrible way to say; Wii U has 50 + (mostly indie titles) coming that we «do» know about using Unity...

But this release, a modestly budgeted indie (Paramount acquired it after it was shot) feels slightly different: Streep, at 67, is no longer an outlier defying all conventional wisdom about the box - office viability of an actress north of 50; she's part of a trend.

Known for smaller, critically acclaimed indie comedy films like What We Do in the Shadows and Hunt for the Wilderpeople, Waititi joked that Marvel Studios «didn't care» about their movies anymore because they hired him — but the partnership was ideal considering his storytelling skills.

And like I said, there are various indie devs lined up for the Wii U, and I'm sure there are more we don't even know about yet.

Even if you don't know that the place used to be called Needle Park, Josh and Benny Safdie's harrowing indie — about the young junkies of the Upper West Side — will put you in mind of that 1971 NYC classic.

It's an indie game with a modest - sounding name, and if you didn't know anything about it, you'd likely pass it up for more well - known titles.

For a writer who kept control of their property and was indie published, if a book is selling at the level of about 3 per month, the writer would push it some, or write more in the series, or write some short stories to boost it, or do a Bookbub, or who knows what....

If you're an indie, you know about their book reviews.

The most important thing I've learned is that I need to know much more about Indie publishing, promotion and social networks, and it takes time.

The more reviews you get, the less likely it is that you got your friends and family to all come rate your stuff (which is one of the myths floating around about indie authors... in fact the vast majority of reviews I've received have been from people I don't actually know).

Authors who know and care about the content, published by a cost - effective book publishing system, delivered to a customer - aware and author - friendly indie is a winning combination that's producing increasing sales when the rest of the industry is rather flat.

Kozlowski is the only person I know oblivious enough to include a graph of daily ebooks showing indie books making up nearly 50 % of the US ebook market, and then in the very next paragraph babble about them only being a «drop in the bucket» relative to the trad - published side.

Everything you wanted to know about contemporary publishing (traditional or indie) but were afraid to ask: from your first draft to that movie deal: blogging, social media, marketing, platform building, querying, dealing with reviews and rejection and internet trolls.

When it comes to book promotion she knows what she's talking about and indie authors should listen — and act.

Agents are not writers, agents can't help you rewrite, and they only know about six or seven editors and nothing at all about the new world of indie publishing.

He's posing as an industry pundit and consultant, yet avowing he doesn't know much about the Indie and self - pubbed worlds.

What kinds of rights (foreign rights, audio rights, film rights, etc.) are useful for indie authors to know about.

Therefore, indie authors aren't necessarily competing against authors with millions of books in print in thousands of bookstores (you know who we're talking about!)

Now I don't actually know a whole lot about the Indie Book Award, but I saw that and in my mind, that meant that this book had been vetted by SOMEBODY and was, therefore, probably worth a buck.

Again, as an indie author myself, I know how hard it is to get people to leave comments about your work.

It's only Day One and I've already heard all about what Indie authors need to know, learned how to run a great author cooperative, and listened to the great Joel Friedlander talk about book design basics.

Now one thing you got ta know about Moses is that he's going indie, like a lot of writers these days.

It is unfortunate the none of the nominees on this list is a self - published title, but as this list was reader - generated, it may be a telling sign of both how consumers perceive self - publishing, as well as how indie authors still have their work cut out for them in terms of viable promotion opportunities to help readers know about their work.

At this point, I didn't know much about indie publishing, so my first thought was that I needed to find a publisher.

I always wanted to «go indie» but I didn't know anything about self - publishing except that an author named Joe Konrath was making a crap load of money doing it.

I know it's harsh when we first enter that hard cold world of marketing and sales, but indie writers will benefit immensely by remembering that potential readers spend a maximum of three seconds to decide whether or not they want to learn more about a book.

What I do know, I'm learning from other indie authors who talk about their methods.

But rather than segregating self published books, what I would rather see is an education of the public to differentiate between the terms vanity publishing (which I think most folks agree is generally bad and awful and will never lose its stigma), self - publishing (which often connotes work that has not been properly vetted by people who know how to judge a good product) and indie publishing, which is a term that those of us who use it are hoping will come to mean quality — work that has been vetted by independent editors and formatted by people who give a damn about putting out a professional product that rivals anything put out by New York.

He is known as «the Voice of Indie Publishing,» appearing on hundreds of podcasts and YouTube channels, and at conferences worldwide, speaking about independent self publishing as a career and a community.

Robin Cutler [00:01:12] And the «I,» as I said, stands for International, so there's just things you need to know about ISBNs, and one of the things we want to cover today is the importance of ISBNs related to your own published book as an indie author.

The other thing to know about ISBNs, so say you self - publish or you're an indie author, you create your book, you put it out in the marketplace, and then you get a publishing deal with a traditional publisher.

Normally I hate talking about pricing of ebooks by indie publishers because there are no right answers and I always end up making people mad.

Lauren Charles [00:03:13] Sure, of course, and as I'm sure most IngramSpark users know, when it comes to an indie, it's all about personality, and it's all about the community that indie is trying to connect with.

We'll be answering and asking questions about the industry, encouraging indie authors to get out there and publish with the proper know - how!

What I am very curious to know is how an indie author can prevent fanfiction from being written about her stories.?