Sentences with phrase «lower midlist»

1,000 — 2,000 Rankings — High performers 2,001 — 5,000 — high midlist 5,001 — 10,000 solid midlist 10,001 — 25,000 lower midlist 25,000 — 50,000 — earning some money to pay some bills.

My first novels were definitely lower midlist, with all the dead - end job mentality that entails.

One agent, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said he certainly wouldn't call Konrath's deal a game changer, but that it does say something interesting about the place of the midlist author in legacy publishing: «It's not necessarily clear that big corporate publishing is well structured to help low midlist authors with rapidly reducing print runs in an environment in which overall print sales are falling week by week.

I'm low midlist, which is about the lowest form of life in the trade press.

Not exact matches

Agents and their midlist or lower - profile authors are being pressured to sign such contracts right now as I type.

You sign a modern traditional contract as a beginning writer or low - level midlist writer, you must trust the publisher, a large corporation, to watch out for your interests for the life of your copyright.

I'm not talking about getting rich or even being able to quit my day job; I just mean having a decent supplementary income and a reasonably sized, loyal readership — call it low - to - mid «midlist» level.

If your book wound up on the midlist (which by definition most did) then low volume and a small cut of the books total sales price made it financially impossible for authors to write full time as their sole source of income.