Sentences with phrase «own small imprint»

(cont'd)- I'm giving away hundreds of listings on the Vault, and as a result of doing so, won't see one thin dime of income on the site until October or later - Given all the time and money I've already sunk into developing the site, I don't even expect to earn back my upfront investment until sometime next year - I'm already personally reaching out to publishers on behalf of authors who are listed in the Vault, on my own time and my own long distance bill, despite the fact that I don't stand to earn so much as a finder's fee if any of those contacts result in an offer - I make my The IndieAuthor Guide available for free on my author site and blog - I built Publetariat, a free resource for self - pubbing authors and small imprints, by myself, and paid for its registration, software and hosting out of my own pocket - I shoulder all the ongoing expense and the lion's share of administration for the Publetariat site, which since its launch on 2/11 of this year, has only earned $ 36 in ad revenue; the site never has, and likely never will, earn its keep in ad revenue, but I keep it going because I know it's a valuable resource for authors and publishers - I've given away far more copies of my novels than I've sold, because I'm a pushover for anyone who emails me to say s / he can't afford to buy them - I paid my own travel expenses to speak at this year's O'Reilly Tools of Change conference, nearly $ 1000, just to be part of the Rise of Ebooks panel and raise awareness about self - published authors who are strategically leveraging ebooks - I judge in self - published book competitions, and I read the * entire * book in every case, despite the fact that the honorarium has never been more than $ 12 per book — a figure that works out to less than $.50 per hour of my time spent reading and commenting In spite of all this, you still come here and elsewhere to insinuate I'm greedy and only out to take advantage of my fellow authors.
This includes publishing house acquisitions staff, independent or small imprint staff, literary agents, literary managers, film and television producers, game producers, online content providers, and anyone else who can offer authors either representation or a contract for some or all of a given book's content rights.»
Another growing area of publishing is that of the small imprint publisher.
Perseus Book Group was founded in 1996 and has been acquiring small imprints to expand their business.
Amazon is a multinational corporate conglomerate, as is Hachette, one of the «Big Five» publishers that absorbed countless smaller imprints in publishing's brutal consolidation.
People see me as a small imprint with a good track record of sales from day one, they are impressed.
April L. Hamilton is an author, blogger, Technorati BlogCritic, leading advocate and speaker for the indie author movement, and founder of Publetariat, the premier online news hub and community for indie authors and small imprints.
In our case, a small imprint launching 3 debut thrillers this November, I want to keep the paperback price to $ 9.99, so if I use the above 2 listed options, the price jump to a minimum of $ 10.10 This puts our single unit price above the $ 10 mark and although it's only a matter of 11 cents, the psychological impact on a potential buyer is something that I must consider.
To avoid Hachette's fate, Doctorow wrote, it should emulate small imprints — namely Macmillan science fiction imprint Tor — that have dropped DRM: «Push out the entire catalogue without DRM, now, and arm yourself with an «Amazon Refugee» app that can convert all your Kindle books to run on anyone else's platform, ready to release the very instant Amazon tries this trick again.»
Publetariat is an online news hub and community for indie (self - published) authors and small imprints I launched last February.
Many of them are geared to people who want to start a small imprint to publish other authors, and most were too dated, failing to address ebooks and author platform at all.
Many book publishers choose to establish a main publishing company and then establish small imprints underneath it to release targeted books.
All of this is to say that in following this new path, I submitted to one agent, smiled when I received the rejection email which is now on the wall in my office, and opened my own small imprint, http://www.usindiebooks.com/ I've just signed one author, Patrick H Moore who runs the very popular, http://www.allthingscrimeblog.com/ am about to sign another, and am accepting new submissions.
How do you find the small imprints?
We'll be celebrating our one year anniversary February 11th and it was founded as a site specifically geared to self publishing or as I call them indie authors and small imprints.
They aren't in the same business as publishers (except for their small imprint.)
Ian Collins, an arts journalist and author, recently wrote of how a book he published through a small imprint about the artists of Southwold sold 1,300 copies in two bookshops in the Suffolk coastal town.
Shawn also offers author services for indie authors and small imprints; please consider him if you need help with your books.
Argyll, Scotland About Blog I particularly like to support Scottish crime writers, small imprints, and new authors, although I do enjoy high - profile books too.

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Entrepreneur magazine, Entrepreneur.com, and publishing imprint Entrepreneur Press provide solutions, information, inspiration and education read by millions of entrepreneurs and small business owners worldwide.
Published by Jacqui Small, an imprint of Quarto Publishing Group.
This somatic based process provides a way for adults to resolve early imprinting, and re-pattern deeply stored implicit memories that affect how we operate in the world, and in our most intimate relationships.This workshop is offered in a small group format so as to create safety, intimacy and a nurturing environment.
Intriguingly, DNA in many of the placenta samples has the same imprinting abnormality seen in Silver - Russell, but a dampened down version of it — perhaps a smaller stretch of the gene is affected, or gene expression is less abnormal.
There are craters with flow - like features, and craters that imprint on other craters, as well as chains of small craters.
Eons later, a smaller impact would have blasted Allan Hills A81001 off Vesta without erasing the imprinted field.
Within the lensed image of the source are small - scale distortions, which encode an imprint of how the lens galaxy's mass is distributed.
Initial fluctuations in the matter density of the early universe led to the formation of galaxies, but these fluctuations must have been small or they would have imprinted themselves on the microwave background.
The discovery of imprinted genes means that the simple dominant - recessive model, while true for most genes, is unable to explain a small but critical group of them.
Even the smallest robots built so far are too big to be able to imprint nanoscale patterns onto microchips.
In exploring the purpose of this maternal information in fetal development, focus so far has been on a small number of genes termed «imprinted genes».
Recipe extracted from Saffron Soul by Mira Manek, published by Jacqui Small, an imprint of The Quarto Group.
Published by Jacqui Small, an imprint of The Quarto Group.
Stephen Frears» directorial debut Gumshoe, a cockeyed detective film starring Albert Finney as a small - time bingo caller who plays at being a private detective for fun and ends up in the middle of a real mystery, and Arch Oboler's 1951 end - of - the - world drama Five, a low budget, high concept film he produced independently, also arrive under the «Martini Movies» imprint.
Maybe, but - unless I failed to read the small print when I was getting my tramp stamp - surely tattoos don't imprint on DNA?
The same sporty imprint has been given to the interior, enhanced by the Sabelt seats with a wraparound carbon fibre backrest made with the innovative RTM (Resin Transfer Moulding) technology that teams great mechanical resistance with smaller dimensions and lightness.
In addition to adding traditional imprints, we now also offer custom publishing services to authors, small presses, and organizations.
But a solid, but small independent publisher (what we call an indie) can provide experience, advice, and an imprint that will enable you to submit your book to any reviewer or award committee, which is not always the case with truly self - published titles.
I think it's fair to say that when people talk about the indie movement in the book world, we're really talking about a broad set of configurations from small presses to collectives of writers to individual authors, whether they create their own imprint or just operate as a self - published author in the Amazon or Smashwords universes.
From The Association of Small Bombs by Karan Mahajan, published on March 22, 2016 by Viking, an imprint of Penguin Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC.
So we shouldn't have trade publisher, legacy publisher, big publisher, independent publisher, small publisher, digital - first publisher, publishing house, publishing imprint, or any of the other dozens of terms for describing publishers either?
Maybe you're looking to help authors reach an audience, so you're thinking about starting a publishing imprint or small press.
The culture of the Big 5, which was built by gobbling up successful small presses and rolling them into imprints, left the door wide open for Amazon, a company that dared to sell direct to consumers, innovate the way we read, and pay authors a living wage.
Tobias Nielsén, CEO and publishing director of the research - based publisher Volante, shares some lessons learned when trying to launch an international digital - first imprint — from a small - country perspective.
In addition to giving publishers the ability to designate, by line, which of their imprints are «eligible», RWA would also have to let them designate which imprints should fall under the non - vanity / non-subsidy small press designation.
What I like about it is, smaller publishers with both a fee - based service and a commercial imprint might not be eligible because the number of vanity - published titles would be too large.
Now, I'm willing to talk about all the ways that big publishers are getting things wrong — just as I'm willing to talk about how Amazon's new imprints may be getting things wrong, or how small presses get things wrong, or how self - published authors may be getting things wrong.
Small Publishers continue to have about the same market share, but Amazon Published, meaning books that are published under one of Amazon's traditional imprints like 47North or Skyscape, have steadily gained marketshare.
Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer BewareWhen Entranced Publishing (its website is now gone, but a recent archived version can be seen here) opened to submissions in 2012, it looked like a promising small press, with a number of imprints, a sizeable... -LSB-...]
At the same time, the smaller to mid-sized publishing imprints will be just as likely to find audiences that were primarily out of reach when they were limited to printing only hard copies of their titles.
For example, I just started Kozmonautix Inc, a small ebook only imprint.
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