Sentences with word «midlist»

The used book choice was particularly devastating for midlist authors of genre.

Its the growing number of midlist authors that are quietly making a living from their writing, and making far more than they did with a publisher.

And it doesn't happen at all for midlist authors who are dropped by their former nurturers for lack of numbers.

What I would like to see is the sales for midlist titles in different categories for Traditional Publishing.

HarperStudio has another strategy: «Our hope is to publish midlist books without betting our company on it.

Who do you think of as midlist authors?

But if you were in midlist hell in the good ol' (not) days, all you could do was take what was dished out, good or bad.

Susan has been indie publishing since 2011, but she's not an indie rockstar or a breakout success — she's one of thousands of solidly midlist indie authors making a living with their works.

I'm an indie midlist at best.

Jillian, it is a seat - squirming time for many midlist writers and their agents.

On the other hand, many traditionally published midlist authors have a few thousand copies of their works gathering dust — temporarily — on bookstore shelves before the books are remaindered or pulped.

«A lot of times we get midlist authors who have a difficult track to overcome, and that's something we've become good at.»

In other words, you sell a book now to a traditional publisher at a lower midlist level (under $ 100,000.00 advance) and you will have no chance of ever seeing the rights to your book back again for thirty - five years.

Because a few monolithic, profit - focused companies are controlling the publishing industry, critics claim, we are seeing fewer and fewer fringe books and new authors — and even established authors who sell respectably but not spectacularly (the so - called midlist) are having a tough time staying in print.

He, of course, being a somewhat known midlist author with a whole lot of backlist.

I'm solidly midlist on the indie ladder and happy (and grateful!)

As far as I can tell, the oft - touted rarely seen midlist self - published authors is as small as the upper echelon of millionaire authors.

When you add in the cost of warehousing, distribution and the working capital tied up in inventory POD has becomes the optimal choice for more midlist titles.

They are changing the landscape in a fundamental way, and it's not necessarily going to be great for the novelist, especially for midlist novelists.

(I will under modern copyright law and standard genre midlist contracts, get my book back in 35 years no matter what the contract says.)

I'm going to use a traditional midlist novel that will earn out around $ 20,000 total over its entire life.

And honestly, as a life - long midlist writer, I find that normal.

Amazon has used its monopsony power, and its ability to threaten punishment, to extract an ever greater share of the total price of a book from publishers, which has resulted in less revenue to support midlist authors and certain kinds of books, effectively silencing many voices.

I worked my ass off to get to upper midlist, and then to (in Don's words) the First Class cabin over the course of almost 20 years... not that I will get to keep that comfy seat.

I am not familiar with the audit provisions, if any, of a typical midlist publishing contract.

All the rest — the literary fiction, the cookbooks, the self - help books, the bread and butter midlist books that now make up 80 percent of every publisher's list — those books they'd cherry pick from self - published authors who'd already tested the market and had the credible sales to prove it.

We didn't know how bad things had got for midlist trad - pubbed authors, but at least it's getting better now.

The growing number of successful midlist authors suggests that the future of publishing is in the hands of readers who are more and more willing to find their own books rather than rely on a traditional publisher to curate them.

When that happens, new people will be moving into their places, and a lot of «high midlist» people moving up are like me.

There, hundreds of seasoned, veteran authors — many of them strong players in US genre midlists — will be discussing ways forward in a landscape that at times tend to look healthy only for authors of publishing houses» blockbusters and high - earning outliers of the independent - author corps.

Especially regarding midlist.

In a more likely scenario, say you achieve a comfortable midlist status with a half dozen books.

For others, particularly midlist writers, it isn't true at all.

Given the very slow publishing schedules in mainstream publishing and the fact that there is a limit to how many books a publisher wants from any given midlist author in a year, the money odds for «most» of us who are not famous or breakout bestsellers... is in the indie side of things, because we can publish on a faster timetable, while still keeping the quality up.

The terms may not (but may) interest bestselling published authors or thriving self - published authors, but may attract midlist published authors and many self - published authors.

What do you think midlist really means?

One of the key problems that has arisen under US lending and subscription models is that publishers who are willing to take the risk on an experimental lending model have rightly been cautious about participating, often resorting to testing the waters with their backlist or a few midlist titles.

I know the above is a worst case scenario, and there are plenty of midlist traditionally published writers out there.

``... for those countless midlist authors stuck with unconscionable contracts because they had no choice, and the multitude of authors kept out of the industry by gatekeepers such as yourself, it didn't work.

These books included bestsellers like Stephen Colbert, James Patterson, and Malcolm Gladwell, but also hit midlist authors, books on the children's list, Orbit titles, and even J.D. Salinger (not The Catcher in the Rye, though whether that will change if their stock runs low will be curious to see.)

It's a place where, every year, students - nature poets and driftwood sculptors, widowed seniors, teenagers away from home for the first time - show up to study with an esteemed faculty made up of prizewinning playwrights, actors, and historians; drunkards and perverts; members of the cultural elite; unknown nobodies, midlist somebodies, and legitimate stars - a place where drum circles happen on the beach at midnight, clothing optional.