Finding a literary agent and getting
picked by a big publishing house.
Not exact matches
EL James was an Indie and
picked up
by a
big house; Harlequin
publishes Weisz» Original Sinners series, which contains pedophilia, yet you're defending large
publishing houses.
A statistic that is very real these days is that your chances of getting
picked up
by one of the
big publishing houses is under 1 %.
You can also self -
publish with either the hope of making a success outright or, like a startup venture, the hope of doing well enough to be noticed
by a
big house and
picked up.
As the stigma of self -
publishing vanishes, more and more self -
published books are making it
big and getting
picked up
by traditional
publishing houses.
Authors dream of being
picked up
by large
publishing house with visions of a
big advance on royalties.
Could that book ever be
picked up
by a
big house and
published for general sale
by them, or once in print would it stay that way?
I have a really hard time with self -
publishing in the respect that there are a lot of times when a self -
published book falls on my desk, or even an independently
published book, and honestly, it's one or two edits away from being
picked up
by a
big house.
Some of their non-mainstream books that weren't
picked up
by the
big publishing houses are now being offered for 99 cents, and I love non-mainstream books.
Whether or not they get
picked up
by traditional
publishing houses, those who keep working to improve their skills and provide quality reading entertainment will gradually build a
big enough fan base to make it work.