Sentences with phrase «know trad»

I'll answer by repeating Shawn's point, that a surprising proportion of readers wouldn't know a trad - pub from a self - pub author.

We actually talk to authors - you see a few blog posts and articles and believe we are at war but the reality is many of us know trad published authors - some are happy, some are becoming unhappy, some are in the middle of lawsuits, some are no longer writing because they couldn't afford to sue and gave up.

They decided early on to fleece indie authors by charging exorbitant prices — when we all know trad pub pays pennies for each ISBN they use — and indie authors decided that they weren't going to play along with this little game.

Editors being let go by trad pubbing houses are making better livings working free lance for self - pubbers — and God knows the trad pubs» offerings need them back.

Not exact matches

Do you happen to know the color used for the cabinets in the Trad Home picture?

AND «NO» TRAD

When I first decided to become an independent author and self - publish after having gone the trad route with nonfiction and made a few attempts to go the trad route for fiction, I knew next - to - nothing about the social media circus I was about to join.

We know that a big trad.

Again, and I know I sound like a broken record, check what the trads in your genre are doing.

Trad pub used to know better.

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.

I know KR and DWS are very down on agents, but they were already established authors who had built reputations through trad publishing before they went indie.

I was «this close» to being offered a trad - pub contract way back in 2011, and I'm sorry to say that I would have been ignorant enough and desperate enough to take it, no matter how predatory the terms were.

I rarely comment on posts like this — I know very little about the trad - pubbed world:).

Joe speaks boldly about his dislike of the trad pub scene and why the ball is no longer all in the publisher's court.

However, we know they're elitists from things they've said in the past about self - published books being of lesser quality compared to trad pub books (how ironic that now trad pub authors are complaining more about their books having so many typos and problems when printed).

You know, when the term Stockholm Syndrome started to get applied to trad pubbed authors I thought it was a bit much.

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.

Literary fiction never did well in indie publishing because it depends on reviews from the big, well known journals like the New Yorker, the NYT book review, the TLS, the Guardian, the NY Review of Books, etc, and they only review trad pub.

I know I've had no luck getting audio rights for my trad pubbed books.

I know of very few trad pub authors who made six figures on their first novels.

Two other points worth repeating: trad pubs will have to increase their royalties and no longer will pubs be able to say that a certain genre of book won't sell.

I don't know if trad publishing is the brass ring or not, but I know that I was always too frightened to self - pub before because I was given to understand it would ruin my chances at a «real» publishing contract.

I'm not self - pubbed myself but I know there are pros and cons to both trad and self pubbing and that they both have their places in today's market.

I've already got fans of the book wanting a second one and who knows how long it would've taken that to happen with trad.

That's true, T.A. I don't know what the Trad Pub terms are.

Another question: do you think the discounting by Amazon could be on purpose, because they noticed big publishing was practicing deep discount conditions with Amazon's discounts, and Amazon knew the more discounting it would do, the more trad pub and hybrid authors would be screwed, and tempted to become only self - published authors?

It's nice to know that the official organizations are helping authors — indies AND trads — succeed.

But that being said, please, if any new writers * do * go through trad - pub (and this isn't for you, Diane, because I know you're a pro at all this and have been for longer than me), read the contract carefully and know * exactly * what you're signing on for.

:) I've dropped out of my trad - pub email loops (which, in retrospect, is a pity because that's an interesting perspective I've lost) so I don't know how widespread this practice is at Penguin / RH, but I'm guessing it's getting pretty darn prevalent.

But I know so many trad authors who were devastated over their covers and titles (and then were basically «paying» for those design services for their lifetime in royalties).

I know many, many trad pubbed writers going this route.

I do know that you've been on the trad - pub path, and I think your women's fiction / romance books are the kind that will do well there.

With what I know now of the publishing industry (thanks to the great blogs mentioned above, as well as the fantastic explanations offered by The Passive Voice and Rusch on the minefield of rights» grabs that are traditional publishing contracts), I would be cautious if I were ever approached for a trad deal.

I review all of my trad pub royalty statements when they come in, but I'm not sure what I should be looking for beyond checking that the various royalty rates are as they should be and running the math (cost of book x royalty rate x no.

I know I am easier on the indies than other books, both trad and boutique.

In the case of Vanquish Writer's Block (and my other self - pub books), I knew that in many cases they were too short for a trad house to pick up AND I knew I could get them out to my readers faster and more effectively.

I also believe that they offer different terms to trad pub on Select, like not having to be exclusive, so if you believe that the playing field isn't already slanted, look no further than that.

Well, no, probably not, but author platform building is the same process for indies as it is for trad published, and most of it is done on the internet.

Because they have a following of readers who have known them not as just indie authors but as trad published authors as well.

I'm not opposed to a trad pub deal if it buys you the things you can't get doing it as I am — broad distribution, meaningful marketing, access to film deals — but I can't for the world see why anyone would do a mid-list deal knowing everything we know.

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.

Another key, at least for the hybrids I know, is a willingness to engage and leveraging their trad publishing to build a network.

No matter if you're trad - pub or indie - bound, you have to factor in these changes to your career ahead.

Or could it be that he realizes that indies know, often better than trads, how to put out a good looking e-book?

I know brilliant writers, like RS Guthrie (whose new one, Blood Land, is a standout example of why some indie authors are completely capable of sitting at the big table with the trad pub boys), whose work isn't getting nearly the visibility it deserves.

Actually, I know what I'm going to do next — a final draft of the MS I will be shopping to trad publishers next year, which is a blockbuster, I think.

For those interested in her full bio, you can read her Amazon author page, but the short version is that she's sold over 3 million books, is a force to be reckoned with in the industry, and is one of only three folks I know of who have done paper - only deals with trad publishers.

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.»

This situation, with the known author and trad press — agreed, this could be very bad.