Sentences with phrase «midlist authors»

I am the happiest of midlist authors today for having made the leap from traditional to the new frontier in publising, that which rewards the reader and the writer more so than the gatekeepers of old.

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

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

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.

Citing that the five big publishing companies seem to want bestselling novels only, and now have little interest in even well known midlist authors.

Who do you think of as midlist authors?

I'm one of thousands of invisible indie midlist authors who, I believe, are the core of indie publishing, and why it's changing the industry.

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.

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.

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.

There's the formatting, of course, and possibly the cost of a publisher purchase portal development, but overall, ebooks are really helping midlist authors survive and publishers keep paying decent advances.

In this one, authors, especially midlist authors, are bemoaning how near - impossible it is to make a living by their writing anymore.

Now he was a NYTimes bestselling author courted by scads of publishers — what can lowly midlist authors do?

U.K. indies report book sales up 30 percent during «Books Are My Bag» campaign; Authors share #BooksThatHooked in Twitter campaign; HarperCollins acquires e-Book deals newsletter The Midlist

``... 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.

10 k books sold with lots of push would probably mean that a typical midlist author wouldn't get another contract I think

Several people have e-mailed me about Robin Sullivan's Midlist Author Comparison, wherein she compares my writing income to that of e-published author David Dalglish.

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.)

Woven into all that is an interesting story about how acclaimed but midlist author Richard Bauch took the self - publishing route after a break with his agent and publisher.

I've included debut and midlist authors trying to break into the top hundreds, as well as authors like Joanna Penn who already have a relatively huge platform and fanbase.

If the music industry is anything to go by, it is not the J K Rowlings, Stephanie Meyers or Dan Browns who will suffer if peer2peer file sharing becomes rampant in books, it is the already beleaguered midlist authors, whose work already struggle to find a place in a market dominated by multi-million pound global hitters and celebrities.

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

Word of mouth is still how most midlist authors sell books.

A friend of mine who is a successful midlist author continually points out that Amazon wants ebook prices to fall to zero.

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

I said that more midlist authors would self - publish and alas this is true.

Believe me, a great number of the average midlist authors on Amazon are having very different results from those you're experiencing.

I suppose we ought to feel pity, but given the abusive relationship they've consistently shown to their bread and butter midlist authors I just can not find it in me.

The publishers are also angry at Amazon because Amazon allows authors to self - publish directly to the Kindle and price however they want, and this had led to a lot of indie authors selling books for $ 2.99 or less outselling midlist authors from traditional publishers.

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).

2) I would be VERY interested to see what happened if a few respectable midlist authors pooled their resources and hired a licensing accountant to audit their publishers.

I think Amazon is also trying to attract midlist authors, and may have longer - term sights on even print publishing beyond what Amazon's imprints have yet achieved.

Douglas Preston began circulating a letter to other marquee and midlist authors late last month

They are playing this whole PR game very smartly by targeting midlist authors though, as one of the previous commenters mentioned.

Regarding midlist authors, I think it makes sense to still go with traditional publishing if given the opportunity.

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

Now it should be clear that midlist authors with a decent backlist of novels and stories can make a fortune very quickly, even at sales lower than 3 sales per book per day.

It's like the trad - pub midlist, only the indie midlist author (typically) makes more money.

Revenue has also increased steadily, due in part to ever - growing ebook sales from small presses and self - publishers, effectively discrediting Authors United's claim that there isn't enough money to go around to support midlist authors.

A lot of established traditionally - published midlist authors are seeing huge success (as well as increased income) by making their backlist available as self - published ebooks.

Many midlist authors who tend to get the backwash of attention from traditional publishing houses have begun to move over into indie - territory, as well as better - known authors who are still having trouble finding a publisher for their most recent manuscript, or who have out - of - print backlists for which they want to regain the rights and publish themselves.