Sentences with phrase «many traditional houses»

Renters insurance for manufactured homes is comparable to renters insurance for traditional houses and apartments in the state, and the average policy in Florida is reasonably priced.
With a thousand - dollar iPhone being released next month, low unemployment and a sky - high stock market, it's hard to imagine that a very large group of people have never financially recovered from the great recession of 2008, stuck in a cycle of week - to - week bill paying with few options to rebuild credit scores and return to their families to traditional housing options.
If you aren't wedded to a traditional house style, we found these two options from Plan Toys and available at Kangaroo Boo: Chalet Dollhouse with furniture ($ 170) and Contemporary Dollhouse ($ 110).
In my particular locale, the problem is mainly caused by purchasing typical family homes and then converting them to multi-occupancy short - term lets suitable for students (who typically are willing to pay much higher rents per room than somebody looking for a family home), leaving a massive shortage of traditional housing.
The hotel - and union - backed arguments are resonating, prompting many lawmakers to try to rein in a company that, many feel, operates outside the scope of traditional housing regulations.
through the grounds to see Hanok traditional housing and architecture set amongst woodlands.
im a huge cuddle bug tho so if u do nt mind horror movie nights in with some coffee and cuddles then let me know:p i wan na say this tho im more of a traditional house hold kind of guy
Dinner at local traditional house.
This is a coffee lovers coffee shop with a traditional house espresso and a rotating range of single origin coffee beans to choose from.
Quite a bit bluer and calmer, where her previous music featured the four - on - the - floor pep of traditional house, this album falls closer to witch house and the rainy gloom associated with trip - hop.
The Paul Williams - designed traditional house, built in 1937, has a long Hollywood history.
Six - year - old Moonee (an astonishing Brooklynn Prince) wastes her summer days wandering the Orlando strip surrounding her home, a vivid purple bargain motel catering less to Disney World tourists than to tenants who can't afford the security deposit world of traditional housing.
They know that acquisition editors at the traditional houses want something ready for production.
Dean's quote, «that In the last two years I have seen a couple dozen author contracts from various traditional houses.
When traditional houses offer bare minimum of support to most mid-list authors, selling to Amazon feels like an author has a leg up on marketing and promotion when the buyer is an Amazon imprint.
And little or no editing is done anymore in a traditional house beyond making a writer change a book to better fit a line of books.
In the last two years I have seen a couple dozen author contracts from various traditional houses.
One author in particular — Elle James — taught me a lot about her highly successful career being a hybrid author, working with traditional houses as well as being a driven indy author with a great track record.
Traditional houses have been placing ads in the back pages of printed books if an author's contract allows for it.
But as algorithmic changes have adjusted the playing field in online settings — remember that self - publishers were the leaders in the dynamic pricing that Shatzkin mentions in regards to traditional houses — it's become harder to predict the response to various pricing approaches online, free or otherwise.
When making buying decisions, respondents do not discriminate between e-books from traditional houses versus independently published e-books.
And here is where the big traditional houses have the upper hand again.
Regardless if you self - publish or go with a traditional house, work with a professional editor — even if it costs you extra.
Numerous Traditional Authors have left traditional houses because they get tired of being jerked around and only getting a small cut of their royalties while indies either get ALL their royalties if they self publish, or a far larger portion of their royalties if they publish through an indie house.
I take issue with the gentleman who commented that authors published by a traditional house either know someone in the business or are good schmoozers.
I finally sold my historical mystery series to a traditional house and it took over twenty years of hard work to do it.
Just as you see writers writing for e - and traditional houses, you can see people doing both print and self - pub.
Prunkl has edited more than [40] books, including several for Granville Island Publishing, which is not a traditional house, in that its authors pay to be published.
I came back into the business in a different genre, but couldn't find an agent to submit my work to traditional houses.
In a big traditional house there are teams of people making decisions about your book and you get very little say — if any.
And we have many authors who are taking a «hybrid» path and are publishing both with traditional houses and also self - pubbing.
We've provided a lot of authors, who've spent in some cases decades being rejected by the traditional houses, the chance to finally hold a published copy of their book.
Brooke's expertise is in traditional and new publishing, and she is an equal advocate for publishing with a traditional house and self - publishing.
I have other author friends, multi-published, who have been dropped and can't get another contract from a traditional house.
That being said, I know there are authors with traditional houses who have profit - sharing instead of advances.
Consumers do not distinguish between e-books published by traditional houses and independently published options when making buying decisions.
Indies created Kindle, but clearly they have seen their own best interests now lie with working with and promoting the major traditional houses.
Here at Indies Unlimited, we often engage in discussions about the advantages and disadvantages of being an indie versus being published by a traditional house.
She has published both through a traditional house and as a self - publisher.
And not shockingly, those who were rejected from a traditional house and then chose to self publish said rejected work were among the lowest earners.
I think that's why so many authors who were previously published with traditional houses have gone the self - publish route.
Copy editing is important, and in most cases the self - published author can hire the same people the traditional houses uses.
In essence, this is like a reverse advance, being paid to various freelancers — or a single company operating a platform — the difference being that the author begins earning back straightaway and most likely at a much higher rate than through a traditional house.
I eventually signed with a traditional house and sales grew even more.
Using Ryan or Sullivan as the benchmark for measuring «success» suggests that the singular goal of self - publishing is to become one of the «lucky few» who eventually get picked up by traditional houses; in other words, it reinforces the idea that self - publishing is merely the means to an end.
Unfortunately it's all too common for this to happen, and it shouldn't - especially it it was edited and published by a traditional house.
And for everyone who says you have a better chance of getting reviewed with a traditional house book than with an indie book, it did not turn out to be the case with this book brought out by a powerhouse publisher.
Not only to I really like the covers and feel they represent where the series is going, I believe they are every bit as good (even better in many cases) than most of the SF covers coming out of traditional houses these days.
Literary Agents and the Hybrid Author: A Conversation with Bob Mecoy and Kristin Nelson (Sangeeta Mehta for JaneFriedman.com): Book publishing is changing so quickly, and this is a great look at the hybrid author space, where authors can work with traditional houses while still self - publishing some of their works.
Yes, you can hire some pretty good copy editors these days, and even some decent book doctors, but they won't have skin in the game the way an editor at a traditional house will.
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