Sentences with phrase «made working with a traditional publisher»

Self publishing has given me more money than I ever made working with a traditional publisher but their marketing was much more efficient, ie.

Not exact matches

Emily Victorson, co-founder and publisher of Allium Press of Chicago, will talk about how publishing with a small press differs from self - publishing, when it makes sense to pursue traditional publishing, the advantages of working with a small press, how to identify small presses that might be interested in your work, how to pitch to a small press, and how being published by a small press can be a valuable first step in your publishing career.

As we wrote at the time, this example makes the point that authors already have a lot of the tools for marketing their work, and in some cases — as with Hocking, Locke and other self - publishers such as J.A. Konrath — this can make them so self - sufficient that they no longer need the support of a traditional publishing deal.

And while a freelance editor (like me) makes more money simply from more work, a traditional publisher's editor makes more money from higher - quality work — and suffers at least in reputation from association with low quality work.

With a traditional publisher I know that others have a stake in making the project work.

Andre, who wrote the Four Weddings and a Fiasco series under the name Lucy Kevin, has become widely recognized for maintaining strict creative and rights control over her work, despite traditional print publishing deals with a major publisher, a move that has allowed her to make decisions such as the Kobo deal.

A final major benefit of traditional publishing, and what I believe to be the most important, is the fact that, with a publisher, a writer has a team of experts in every aspect of book production — i.e., editing, copy editing, legal review, when necessary, cover design, formatting, marketing, and publicity — who work together with a common, vested interest in making a book the best representation of the author and the publishing house that it can be.

One could make the case that when working with someone pursuing traditional publishing the focus could be more on how to best market it for publishers.

With a number of genre - driven imprints in its traditional Amazon Publishing wing, as well as the KDP platform for digital and self - published works, the retailer - turned - publisher is making book distribution available to all.

Reber explained in an interview what helped her make the decision to work with a traditional publisher, as well as her level of satisfaction with the process and any potential future plans for her publishing.

I have worked in the publishing industry for over twenty years, been a published author, and had some great sales numbers (printed editions of The Art of Abundance over 95,000 copies sold total) and awful numbers (the less said the better), lived through a publisher bankruptcy, ridden the waves of change in the industry, and saw the bottom fall out in mid-2008, with all the folks I worked with laid off and my way of making a living in traditional publishing disappear.

With a number of genre - driven imprints in its traditional Amazon Publishing wing, as well as the KDP platform for digital and self - published works, the retailer - turned - publisher is making book... [Read more...]

Because of a somewhat discouraging encounter with a so - called «traditional» publisher (who ended up on the Writer Beware list, thus the quotes), I made the decision to learn how to self - publish by using my own works as my learning experience.

The benefit of working with a traditional publisher, rather than with an author who's self - published, is to make use of the specialists who deal with books on a daily basis.

Scott Sigler is a horror author who has made excellent promotional use of his subsidiary rights (even while often working with traditional publishers).

With so many people now choosing not to tread the traditional publishing path, self - publishers need to make sure their work really shines and is the best that it can be.

Certainly, Amazon has issues too, however, the big traditional publishers, Barnes and Noble, and the group of literary agents connected to this model have made a very good living from working with a relatively small number of authors that sell a lot of books.

It makes me think that if an agent can't promote your work, with the quality that it is and the platform that you've established, then the traditional publishers must be in real difficulty and they're only willing to speculate on the bigger names.

Every author should make a «tricked out» Author Central Page a top priority, whether you're an indie author or working with a traditional publisher.

I'm biased now because I've communicated quite a bit with you and worked with you, but it seems to me that your goal is to come across as the guy who can help independent authors have the same advantages they would get by going through a traditional publisher - putting power back into the hands of the little guy determined to make it on his own.

«Maybe I'm making a mistake not to work with a traditional publisher.

It's no wonder that traditional publishers prefer to work with authors who have ideas for more than one book; they figure they stand to make more money on their investment.

Also, having a publisher doesn't mean they're going to be pimping your work for you, so in a lot of ways you'd have to do the same stuff if not more marketing wise with a traditional publisher, making sure you have enough preorders and all that.