Sentences with phrase «name publishing houses»

Unlike ever before, the power to create and share work is firmly in the hands of writers, and dealing with difficult, big - name publishing houses is finally a thing of the past.

Those who want to get their words into the hands of the masses are no longer limited by the monopoly of big name publishing houses.

Another reason I chose to self publish my work, except that shockingly, I didn't have big name publishing houses and companies beating my door down for my signature to print my stories, was that I have total control over my work, from which pages get included, the cover design, the ISBN identification, previews that get shared on Amazon etc, the price of the finished product, the description and even keywords that are used to find it in online web searches.

But what really happens is that your book — along with thousands of other titles from big - name publishing houses — will be listed in databases from which bookstores order their books.

So while big name publishing houses like Simon & Schuster, Lonely Planet, agent Aitken Alexander, and the Hay Festival are in the process of settling down in India, others such as Bloomsbury have announced its India operations would kick off in May 2012.

As an aside, I have read (and put down) several books from big name publishing houses that were virtually unreadable.

In today's world it doesn't matter whether your book is published by a big - name publishing house, or by you; either way, the author, not the publisher, drives readers to the store, period.

Not exact matches

(Sandberg is also writing a book under the same name, «Option B,» which will come out next spring and is being published by Random House.)

This was largely the result of a trader named John Castaing, who owned a coffee house and published regular pricing information for various public, joint - stock companies in the country.

And it's altogether appropriate that a house named in Hillenbrand's honor should publish 23 reflections by one of the architects who is leading American Church architecture into a nobler future.

Several names known to the real estate industry have emerged as potential replacements, including Bill de Blasio's housing czar Deputy Mayor Alicia Glen, former U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara and Public Advocate Letitia James, whose office has been sued for publishing the «worst landlords of New York City» list.

A letter that the European Research Council (ERC) sent to its grantees last July didn't mention PEN by name, but warned about «certain publishing houses and online publications» whose tactics, «including vague references — usually by telephone — to any sort of official recognition by the ERC, the EC or the EU, are to be considered an attempt to fraud.»

Elsevier takes its name from the original House of Elzevir, a Dutch family publishing house founded in House of Elzevir, a Dutch family publishing house founded in house founded in 1580.

As a fiction editor at a publishing house, we are treated to scenes where Ana is scolded by her husband for not changing her work email address to her newly married name, and her editorial notes consist of «make the font size two points bigger.»

But he also wrote for a more general audience, particularly literary novels such as «Foucault's Pendulum» (1988), about three workers at a small publishing house who hatch their own conspiracy theory, and «The Name of the Rose,» a murder mystery set in an Italian monastery in the 14th century.

For this handy how - to guide demystifies self publishing, convincingly presenting this path as an accessible and attractive alternative for those frustrated by failure with big - name commercial houses.

It comes with a nice booklet too, but is even better when accompanied by the new monograph, Jiří Brdečka: Life — Animation — Magic, likewise issued by a publishing house bearing the name of his classic Western parody, Limonádový Joe, which was a book and play written by Brdečka before he was a party, as co-screenwriter, to its wonderful 1964 adaptation to film (dir.

WLFSAT's name change was agreed by members in June, and the resolution was published at Companies House last week.

And authors already established via publishing houses are now dropping them to handle their publications themselves, using the names they've established to generate their own sales.

Not true... some big name authors are going in the other direction, deciding against taking the contract a publishing house is offering and self - publishing instead.

She named it The Editorial Department because it provided the same services that editorial departments at publishing houses had once routinely offered.

Just sign up with Facebook and decide whether to publish under your name or create a profile for your publishing house, and you are good to go.

They email or call a book publicist and say, «My book was published by [fill in the name of a major publishing house] in 2008, and that publisher failed to promote my book.

My name is Tessa Clare, and I'm an author, activist, entrepreneur, speaker, and Managing Director of a publishing business called Asset Creative House.

Self - publishing offers the author a great platform to get their name and message out to the world, without the cut throat rejections that are offered from traditional publishing houses — particularly for new authors of this modern era.

When Nobody Dies was published by Random House NZ in 2004, the book attracted positive reviews, with The New Zealand Herald naming it one of the top five thrillers of the year, while the New Zealand Listener headlined their review «Is Zirk van den Berg the best thriller writer in New Zealand?»

My true story which I have just self published and now have the offer of a traditional publishing house taking on, is written with all real names.

She said that when it was finally rejected (because it was too similar to another book being published by a big name house), «we realized this was a concern we were likely going to run into elsewhere, so Hoover made the choice, in consultation with me, to go the independent publishing route and be the first to work with our agency in this capacity.»

The house is already in husband's name in case I get sued for my Indie published book, Silent Trauma, Barb.

In case anyone is not familiar with Bloomsbury's reputation in the industry, the publishing house released a popular juvenile fiction series a few years ago about a boy wizard named Harry Potter.

Since the PEN / Hemingway Award recognizes a debut work of fiction, there are understandably no names with the star power of Barbara Kingsolver or Lorrie Moore — although each of the novels comes from a major publishing house.

That means you can't publish with another house, even under a different pen name, and you can't self - publish unless Publisher A gives you permission to.

Instead, you will be giving them right of first refusal, your right to publish with any other house under your name (not all publishers require this yet but more are going to it), ALL digital rights and other rights, even for technologies not yet invented, etc., etc., etc..

It is probably getting harder and harder to get advances and support from the big publishing houses like Harper Colins unless one is a recognization name or has done some outstanding prepublishing promotion.

I also purchased three reviews through Reader's Write, so I could have language and a reviewer's name to include on book cards, a marketing tool used by traditional publishing houses, which I co-designed through a local FastSigns agency.

The form then asks for the name of the Publishing House.

Gibbs Smith, the co-founder of the Utah - based independent publishing house that bears his name, died October 28.

Last week Penguin Random House announced the sale of beleaguered Author Solutions, the large (but seemingly getting smaller) vanity press that is known by several imprint names in the publishing industry including Xlibris, AuthorHouse, iUniverse, Trafford and WestBow Press.

Editors can also register by simply sending their name, their title, and the publishing house they work for to [email protected].

From your position it's interesting, because you've already established yourself for many years as an author working with traditional houses, your route to self - publishing means that you already have a name behind you.

The publishing contracts for Hydra, Alibi, Loveswept, and Flirt, each representing different genre fiction, were so limiting to authors, it is downright insulting that they came from a big - name NYC publishing house.

Update: A day after putting up this post, while doing more reading about the publishing industry, I ran across another dirt - dishing voice with a similar (but different) last name: Daniel Menaker, who is a «a former Executive Editor - in - Chief of Random House» and «fiction editor for The New Yorker.»

It would be churlish of me to mention names but I recently made myself read a series of «thrillers» by best - selling authors published by mainstream houses.

Brand name authors become an asset that publishing houses tend with some care.

Questions about being picked up by a major traditional publishing house, leaving those professionals without their royalties, have been raised, along with veiled concerns that this is nothing more than a carefully screened list of names that the author must still hire up front.

When Amazon Publishing first got its feet wet in the industry in May of this year with the announcement that it was stocking the executive staff of its new publishing house with some of the most respected names in the business, it still wasn't enough to keep the wheels of the rumor mill from declaring that the book giant's new venture would nPublishing first got its feet wet in the industry in May of this year with the announcement that it was stocking the executive staff of its new publishing house with some of the most respected names in the business, it still wasn't enough to keep the wheels of the rumor mill from declaring that the book giant's new venture would npublishing house with some of the most respected names in the business, it still wasn't enough to keep the wheels of the rumor mill from declaring that the book giant's new venture would never work.

While all of the contacts are vetted through BiblioCrunch, many of those names come with pedigrees from some of the best known traditional publishing houses.

House of Names by Colm Toibin, narrated by Juliet Stevenson, et al., published by Simon & Schuster Audio

Something worth considering is that with any big name author currently out there the work has already been done for them on the branding and marketing front by the publishing houses so it's easy to move the books, print or E, on that basis already.

I think more likely, Amazon is tired of authors who make a name for themselves selling their eBooks with Amazon then signing with traditional publishing houses for lucrative print contracts.