Sentences with phrase «more traditional publishing deal»

A lot of emphasis has been placed in the last year on e-book authors that later become even more successful through a more traditional publishing deal.

Not exact matches

After you self - publish your work or get a traditional publishing book deal, there are plenty of things you need to know — such as how to promote yourself, how to keep your career going with multiple books, how to build a readership, and much more.

After you self - publish your work or get a traditional publishing book deal, there are plenty of things you need to know — such as how to promote yourself, how to build a readership, and much more.

Self - publishing does make things a lot easier and more convenient although, as you mentioned, this also requires self - promotion and therefore if you can get a publishing deal down the traditional route then promotion is an advantage.

They frequently cite that most of the Amazon bestsellers are written by indie authors and that they are earning more money than writers who get a traditional publishing deal.

At the same time, electronic publishing has allowed brilliant authors who are controversial and can't find a traditional deal, or, did not care to wait years to publish, an opportunity to share their work and get paid more equitably for it.

This was a process that took more than two years and netted perhaps the same return a traditional deal would have produced... and that's something that smart startups in the publishing world are fighting against.

On one front, this is essential material for the first - time author pursuing a traditional publishing deal, as publishers are well known for sticking quite rigidly to genre requirements, for the purposes of selling their products (our books) to the even more hide - bound book shops, who aren't interested in buying a book unless they know where to shelve it.

In part 1 and part 2 of this blog post series, I explained how I landed my first traditional book deal, signed with an agent, sold more books, and then ultimately decided to leave traditional publishing behind!

How to Secure a Traditional Book Deal by Self - Publishing (Jane Friedman at Writer Unboxed): «It's not any easier to interest an agent or publisher when you're self - published, and since new authors are more likely to put out a low - quality effort (they rush, they don't sufficiently invest, they don't know their audience), chances are even lower their book will get picked up.»

With traditional publishing deals, monetization opportunities, even television and film licensing, Wattpad is so much more for both authors and readers.

New authors are constantly discovering selfpublishing and are slowly moving away from traditional publishing, although many still consider a traditional deal to be more prestigious and better for book store distribution and marketing.

I would add on the side of traditional publishing that 1) It is easier to get national publicity because producers give more weight to a traditionally published book, particularly from a larger house (though some self - published authors certainly do get national publicity as well — it's just harder, in general and 2) a traditional publisher is generally going to bring a great deal of experience to the table — from improving the cover or title to layout and design.

As Joe Konrath has pointed out to me, he got more readers with traditional publishing, but he's making a LOT more money with his independently released ebooks than he ever made in print, and he got a 6 - figure deal once.

The argument that I think Hugh keeps making isn't that if you self - publish you will succeed (if success is selling lots of books), but that the same amount of effort put into self - publishing will be more productive than if you had chased after a traditional publishing deal.

Eisler, a former CIA operative turned author, has been one of the most prominent examples of self - publishing, along with fellow writers J.A. Konrath and young - adult author Amanda Hocking — who made more than two million dollars by publishing her own books via the Kindle marketplace (often charging as little as 99 cents for them) before signing a $ 2 - million deal with a traditional publisher earlier this year.

She also said authors who shunned traditional publishing deals in favour of self - publishing, thinking they would be able to earn more money, should think carefully about the step.

More and more writers are hiring their own developmental editors, whether they plan to self - publish their book or hope to land a literary agent and go for a book deal with a traditional publisMore and more writers are hiring their own developmental editors, whether they plan to self - publish their book or hope to land a literary agent and go for a book deal with a traditional publismore writers are hiring their own developmental editors, whether they plan to self - publish their book or hope to land a literary agent and go for a book deal with a traditional publisher.

Mark Coker, CEO and founder of the hugely successful ebook distribution platform Smashwords, wrote a blog poston how the sales figures for an indie author versus those of a traditionally published author can demonstrate something that not many in the industry know: a traditional publishing deal might actually do more harm than good for an author.

Dr. Amy Tiemann, author of Mojo Mom: Nurturing Your Self While Raising a Family and executive editor of the book Courageous Parents, Confident Kids, has arguably experienced practically every model of publishing available to writers today — a traditional deal, a strict self - publishing option, and print - on - demand through... [Read more...]

Mark Coker, CEO and founder of the hugely successful ebook distribution platform Smashwords, wrote a blog poston how the sales figures for an indie author versus those of a traditionally published author can demonstrate something that not many in the industry know: a traditional publishing deal might actually do more... [Read more...]

But there are several more, including that self - published books mean a low - quality product and that if you publish your book yourself, you won't then get a traditional publishing deal.

In fact, they sound more reasonable than the ones you commonly find in traditional publishing deals these days.

OK, that title is a little tough, but Eisler, who briefly was the poster boy for self - publishing for turning down a traditional deal to self - publish, is now going a more - traditional route.

Self - publishing authors should stay that way — if you want to use traditional publishers to help market your paper books to gain more attention to get better agent - represented film & tv rights deals, by all means, but never, ever trust them.

Not all authors want to self - publish, but in order to maximise their chances of getting picked up by an agent, authors who want a traditional deal should make sure that they produce the best quality manuscript they possibly can — the less work an agent or publisher thinks a manuscript needs, the more positively they will view it.

Interestingly, once you have a huge platform, you may not NEED a trad published deal (you might make about the same money anyway, but you'd be selling a lot more books and getting more visibility with a traditional publisher, which is what I want).

Learn from those who have gone before you, including: - interviews with successful authors - both traditional and self - published - advice on getting published and dealing with agents - advice on writing and marketing your books - social media success stories and step - by - step tutorials - trends in digital publishing - advice on publishing careers - and much more!

Other authors are, however, dispatching more direct challenges to the traditional publishing industry model by signing deals directly with e-book retailers, rather than through their publishers.

While the Amazon announcement is primarily a branding and marketing strategy (reduced price, specially highlighted on its own landing page) and probably just one more shot across the bow of traditional publishers (major authors have stuff shoved into a drawer that could be published independently, without the involvement of their «trade book» publisher), the concept could be a big deal for two kinds of people who read this blog: Bloggers and magazine publishers.

I've even spoken to couple writers who did this, hoping it would lead to a traditional publishing deal and more, but it didn't.

It's possible to sell far fewer copies as a self - published author and yet earn more than a traditional deal would pay you; it's also possible to sell more copies as a self - published author but not earn as much as a publisher's advance and royalties.

Much as I love self - publishing, even in the current market, I think I am more likely to be able to get blurbs from big name authors if I get a traditional book deal.

But sadly there are still some influential people who believe that, first, self - published authors sell a lot of books because they are cheap (Kill Me Again is currently in the Kindle UK top 20 and only one book in the chart is more expensive) and, second, that if the writing was good, the author would be offered a traditional deal.