Not exact matches
I generally advise authors to avoid the Author Solutions self - publishing services (iUnverse, Xlibris, Trafford, AuthorHouse, BookTango, and the self -
pub services Author Solutions runs for
major publishers, including Thomas Nelson's WestBow Press and Hay
House's Balboa Press), since I've received many complaints about quality, price, and high - pressure sales tactics.
pub'd books from
major houses.
Here are a couple of resources for finding them: http://www.bryndonovan.com/2015/12/28/fantasy-publishers-2016-no-agent-required/ http://www.locusmag.com/Links/Publishers.html (look under «Specialty Publishers») https://www.sfsite.com/depts/small01.htm For self - publishing, I generally advise authors to avoid the Author Solutions self - publishing services (iUnverse, Xlibris, Trafford, AuthorHouse, BookTango, and the self -
pub services Author Solutions runs for
major publishers, including Thomas Nelson's WestBow Press and Hay
House's Balboa Press), since I've received many complaints about quality, price, and high - pressure sales tactics.
* In the Traditional -
Pub world, 10,000 sales is approximately equal to selling through the average first - novel print run at a
major NY
house.
I don't think so, because physical bookstores are not that big a market for most self -
pubbed authors in the first place — or even for second - string / midlist authors at
major houses (I'm married to one of those, and used to be one).