Sentences with phrase «midlist at»

I don't want to hear about how this is a big falsehood (it isn't, I know at least fifteen authors, personally, not just internet pals, that have these contracts, and all are midlist at best).

Not exact matches

From misguided agents to cruel or absent editors to the callous slashing of midlist authors and backlist titles, the longer a writer is in the publishing world, the more chance of encountering at least one of these major (and sometimes career - freezing) hurdles.

But it's getting more and more possible for midlist authors to find an audience of appreciative readers and make a living or at least pay some bills as self - published authors and it's because of the rise of eBooks and online distributors like Amazon.

You are correct that the real important questions are at the midlist level as few authors will be in the outlier cateory.

At the moment she is driving last year's Ford midlist floor model (her father owns the dealership — «Prescott Ford: Most Fords sold in the 541 area code!»)

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

But if I wrote a nifty little midlist romance right now, I'd be happy at the advance for a midlist romance right now.

Midlist, with New York (at any age) is an endangered species.

But, I think for most new / midlist writers the key will be to build their readership, one reader at a time, one book (or novella or short story) at a time.

My current midlist book is released by Random House, and I've only managed to get four reviews at small blogs so far.

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

Instead, the suggestion was to look at what we might call decent midlist authors, where the sales are decent and steady (or increasing slightly).

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

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.

Sadly, this is no longer the case for midlist and below, at least according to a great many sources.

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).

In October, the big publisher HarperCollins bought it, and Midlist, at least under its old name, apparently has vanished from the web.

At the midlist and below the publisher will often fail to sell rights.

At the same time, [readers] need to be exposed to the long tail, the midlist, the backlist, the genre fiction.