Sentences with phrase «many trad published»

One thing that really concerns me about trad publishing is the idea your agent will read your blog.

My limit (except for Baen E-Arcs) seems to be $ 10 even for trad published authors that I have bought for years.

Another complaint I have is that they do have the «other readers who purchased this also bought this» feature (it is not as extensive as the Amazon one), but they only offer that feature on Trad published books.

We asked her a bunch of questions about what she found in regard to author income, books on sale, and whether indie or trad publishing is more likely to get a person to a living wage (which she defined as the U.S. average of $ 32,000 a year).

Who responded (indie, trad published, hybrid, small press, etc.) and how many authors were interviewed?

It doesn't matter that I've made as much on several of my books as I would with a trad publishing contract.

Among the 13 (out of 125 total) of them reporting incomes of $ 30,000 or more, 7 listed 2 or more trad published titles... so I'm thinking maybe they didn't understand the question as I did.

I recently unfollowed a debut trad published author on twitter because his comments were things like «I'm having pasta for breakfast.

The difference is, trad publishing houses will print books, sell them to bookstores, then buy them back and pulp them if they don't sell (something you probably can't afford to do yourself).

Going indie in genres where the publishers aren't interested (and making more money as an indie than in trad publishing!)

You need to have some selling skills in trad publishing because you have to convince agents / publishers to take a chance on you, which means mastering the secrets of the query letter and the elevator pitch.

The more we can do to help authors navigate the tricky learning curve of either self - publishing or working with agents towards a trad publishing contract the better!

I came out of this episode even more determined to avoid agents and trad publishing.

The truth has always been that most trad published books are damp squibs (speaking from experience), but self - publishing has allowed authors to give readers what they want to read instead of what agents and publishers think they want to read.

A collective seemed the ideal «third way» between trad publishing and going indie.

1) Can you explain to me the definition of a trad published book?

If book «x» is trad published and successful enough to sell, let's say, 20,000 books (or whatever, just a number I grabbed at), and book «y» is indy published and sells the same amount, there is no doubt that the author of the indy book is going to be FAR better off.

Quite frankly, I make more than many Trad published and I turned DOWN the trad offers because it would slow down the process of writing, interfere with my contact with the fans, cost me money and essentially make me a low paid wage slave for the «honor» of having someone else utterly control my work.

You put out samples, you sell your work yourself, people like it, talk about it — the movers & shakers in the trad publishing industry aren't just sitting on their thumbs when they aren't reading; they're scanning the «net and seeing what people are saying about writers like you.

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.

With trad publishing, you can wait a really long time to get published even after the contract is signed.

But in the writing community, those trad publishing credits are absolutely necessary for any kind of credibility * with other writers *.

I can't stress enough not to self pub just because you think it takes too long to be trad published.

So, really, the most successful trad published writers did a lot of promo (unless they'd written some sort of blockbuster) so that they would get their contracts extended.

Joel — True and I think a lot of trad published writers mistakenly thought that they could let the publisher handle things.

I have no interest in or patience with stories whose plot or characters I do not care about, or those that display bad writing or poor editing (FAR too many, even from trad publishing houses).

There are a few bad apples among the trad published, but far more in the self - published ranks (and stop reading that I mean ALL self - publishers, or I'm going to start recommending that you get glasses).

There are plenty of trad published books that are more boring than watching paint dry or more vapid than a sparkly vampire.

Many of my author friends are trad published, and I always saw that as a grass - is - greener issue.

Each of the speakers will outline over 30 minutes, their take on the what's required for success in either the self publishing or trad publishing worlds.

The purpose of the post was not to list the benefits of trad publishing.

So for me to buy more trad published books than self because I have limited money, not because of bias, makes logical sense and has NOTHING TO DO WITH BIAS, which obviously your comments were.

Trad publishing has standardized length in the last few decades, but The Great Gatsby is only about 50K words.

One of the biggest problems with trad publishing is definitely the timing.

If you look at a number of trad published authors they had pen names for their different genres and now they are moving away from that.

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.

As a writer, I will be sensitive to how I write my articles, but I will not be «politically correct» when it comes to self publishing (or trad publishing for that matter).

They can write in older genres that trad publishing has tired of, like Gothic Romance or Family Saga, and make them new again.

And the Ilona Andrews self pub book has done well, but likely has not made as much as advances on Ilona Andrews trad published books.

The trilogy was trad published, but this book he released indy.

Especially those of us who have been with trad publishing for a while, where the decisions about this stuff were made by other people.

As for the other 99 %, I agree trad publishing should be trying something different, because they're absolutely failing to make those assets pay off like they could.

Trad publishing also has some great things going for it, but there are also drawbacks that an author has to weigh before signing on the dotted line.

Have to disagree with some of the points on trad publishing though - For the pros you neglected to mention that the publishers distribute your book to all bookstores and e-books sites (hitting two marketing areas) A huge Pro considering most authors are battling to get their book seen and traditional publishing can do that.

Yes, on balance, there are probably more trad published books that are better than indie books but let's not throw the baby out with the bathwater.

I think that many books — self or indie or trad published — skate very near the edge of what is acceptable or not.

In trad publishing at least the gamble is clear — you put in the hours, you learn as much as you can about the business, and you hope.

Trad Publishing is using old - school PDFs and there's no script to count the signatures.

It feels like a kind of control to me, rather like Trad Publishing — they hold the contracts, the keys to the kingdom, the list of people who are naughty and who are nice.

I could not help but see the comparisons between Trad Publishing, represented by the Preston Petition, and Indie Publishing, represented by the Indie Petition.