Sentences with phrase «offering traditional book deals»

Some small presses, in addition to offering traditional book deals that work on a traditional model, also have a separate plan where authors have to pay.

A good number of indie authors have at some point been offered traditional book deals, but they decided to do their own publishing.

Not exact matches

In fact, several of our EAP graduates have been offered traditional deals on subsequent books.

«My agent had gotten me an offer for a traditional deal, and they wanted two books.

My method of publication: Writer wants a career in writing publishes books independently and hopes to attract enough sales or fans so a traditional publisher shows interest and offers a deal.

A good few indy - authors that I know of have since gotten traditional publishing deals based on their success with indy - published books, but unless I were offered an insanely large advance, I don't think I would go for it.

And most significantly, if you can achieve a threshold of sales, say from 5 - 10K copies on your own, a traditional publisher may offer you a deal to take over the book for their list.

Since PW isn't offering that deal to traditional publishers, whose books are considered for review without a $ 149 fee, I'm somehow not excited about the book promotion opportunity that PW is offering self publishers.

And yet, it's also a strong case for at least trying the traditional path first — she was willing to take the time to put a book out on submission and was therefore able to get a deal on the table and actually see the numbers they were offering (plus clauses and timeline) before turning it down.

As I described in a recent post, Eisler said that what made the decision to go with Amazon easy was that the web giant promised to not only get his books to market faster — both in print and electronic form — but also offered to sell them at a lower price than the traditional publisher, and apparently (although the terms of his deal weren't released) gave him a bigger share in the proceeds to boot.

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In this contract, an unsuspecting author is offered a «traditional publishing deal» — meaning the publisher pays the publishing costs and offers industry - standard royalties on sales — but the contract contains a «mandatory marketing agreement» (or addendum) that requires the author to pay the publisher (or an affiliated marketing company) thousands of dollars to market and advertise the author's book.

Last week, Barry turned down a $ 500,000 book deal with a major trade publisher for his next two books and declared his intention to self - publish, while Amanda accepted a $ 2,000,000 offer from a traditional publisher to publish four new novels.

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.