Additionally, they're all competing with each other, and with hundreds of thousands of
new trad pub offerings per year, as well as millions of backlist titles.
Then I read
the new trad pubbed books of long - time favorite authors.
Not exact matches
The top news of the week touched upon waning ebook sales for
trad pubs, the EU's recent ruling that ebooks aren't books, the
new Author Earnings Dashboard, the getting - by attitude, and the indie startup mindset.
This blog is mainly for
newer writers, not bestselling
trad pubbed authors like you.
After the initial promotional push is over for
trad pubbed books, advertising dollars go to the publishing house's next
new books.
Literary fiction never did well in indie publishing because it depends on reviews from the big, well known journals like the
New Yorker, the NYT book review, the TLS, the Guardian, the NY Review of Books, etc, and they only review
trad pub.
But that being said, please, if any
new writers * do * go through
trad -
pub (and this isn't for you, Diane, because I know you're a pro at all this and have been for longer than me), read the contract carefully and know * exactly * what you're signing on for.
Serials aren't
new (Charles Dickens was doing them back in the day), but they are seeing a resurgence due to the ease / low - cost of ebook publishing (in both self -
pub and
trad -
pub; see John Scalzi's Human Division, Rashelle Workman's Blood and Snow, and Platt & Wright's Yesterday's Gone).
The more I read about
trad -
pub, and the more unsatisfactory
new releases I read from that system, the less I question its value.
That said, I'm going to have to start a
new series / brand targeted to a traditional publisher, and maybe later I will be able to either afford to publish my self -
pubbed series on my own, or hope that if I do find a
trad pub later that they might consider my previous works.
With indie stars often getting plucked for
trad pub eventually anyway — because indie is now the farm system where
trad pub looks most closely, for all the hot
new horses.
So I know things will take a dive when I make the move out of Select... but it's okay, I'll be ready because I'm building deep with developing a loyal, engaged reader base and capturing them on my email list,, building broad by reaching into
new markets (audiobooks,
trad pub deals, film and tv) and high by developing
new projects in
new genres.
Some come to self -
pubbing with a backlist, some start with self -
pubbing and move existing series to
trad pub, some have entirely
new books they sell to
trad pub (that's my case, just one title).
I know brilliant writers, like RS Guthrie (whose
new one, Blood Land, is a standout example of why some indie authors are completely capable of sitting at the big table with the
trad pub boys), whose work isn't getting nearly the visibility it deserves.
I firmly believe the future will see more and more authors (
new, midlist
trad -
pubbed, as well as veteran bestsellers) going indie, in part or whole.
Readers, not
trad pubs, r being empowered 2 become the
new gatekeepers #wdce
Being a brand
new author with no following does tend to suppress pricing options, which is why so many great mid-list writers in
trad -
pub never got the chance to build a following.
News stories included Amazon's Disney subscription, Facebook's Marketplace, a
new scammer, a
trad pub author turned indie, Facebook video stat reporting errors, and Kindle Unlimited reporting errors.
I've seen it said elsewhere: In a few years
Trad Pub will be the
new vanity presses because they will cater to authors and readers that have to have a physical copy to put on a shelf to either stroke the author's ego or satisfy readers who are dead set against moving to electronic.
As a
new self - published author, I still have not given up on
trad pub and the submission process.
A growing number of
trad -
pub new books sell less than 1,000 copies in their first year (which usually means in their lifetime, since print books make most of their sales on the first couple of months since release).
pub contract, but now see no sense in it, other than to be able to tell all those people who look down their noses when I say I'm self - published that I'm with Trad Pub House in New Yo
pub contract, but now see no sense in it, other than to be able to tell all those people who look down their noses when I say I'm self - published that I'm with
Trad Pub House in New Yo
Pub House in
New York.