Sentences with phrase «pub authors»

I know indie pub authors who have managed to quit their day jobs.

Sadly, in my experience, most self - pub authors don't even know what those standards are, let alone have the ability to achieve them on their own.

I talked to plenty of self - pub authors with them.

The experimentation of self - pub authors leads to knowing more about what works and what doesn't.

Excellent, thorough advice for self - pub authors looking into audio.

Oh, trust me, the trade pub authors are not going to like their actual sales numbers out there any more than indie writers do.

Compare the number of best - selling self - pub authors right now to those who have a publisher behind them doing marketing, etc..

I have been blown away by the work that many of the serious self - pub authors do.

The reviews that take the place of those earned by trad pubbed authors from the trades?

I've heard so much BS from NY pubbed authors about crap they have to deal with on the midlist, that I'm so glad I decided to go indie.

Every day brings more reports of self - pubbed authors making good money without the help of agents or publishers.

The question remains, how much would a self pubbed author get from Kindle unlimited subscription service.

As a vocal proponent for self - pubbed authors using professional editing, it's nice to see others break it down in such useful fashion.

Traditionally pubbed authors need to work two and three jobs because their publishers, whose parent companies are raking in millions of dollars, decline to share their profits, the bulk of which are being generated by said writers.

This blog is mainly for newer writers, not bestselling trad pubbed authors like you.

I think what killed that dream for me was when I realized most NY pubbed authors still had full - time day jobs, in addition to «writing for the man» LOL.

Yet, for every indie author who rides a successful indie career to substantial trad pub paychecks, there are ten thousand other indie authors and trad pub authors alike, each dwelling in obscurity.

And by the way, Patterson and plenty of other less - than - stellar trad pub authors sell millions while good books go unnoticed, so it's not just indie publishing that's that way.

As I understand it (and I'm by no means an expert), whether a work has been registered with the US Copyright Office (and remember that the US is one of only a few countries that has a formal registration process) makes no difference in the settlement (though if a self - pubbed author wanted to opt out of the settlement in order to preserve his or her right to sue Google for copyright infringment, he or she would have to register before s / he could file a suit).

My opinion may change as all the industry shifts, but as of right now, the only way I'd buy a self - pubbed book is if I knew the person or if they were previously a traditionally pubbed author whose re-issuing their backlist.

The real conflict here is trad - pubbed authors trying desperately to maintain their ivory - tower-esque closed society.

And this is where most self - pubbed authors lose heart.

While self - pubbed authors generally price their ebooks lower than $ 9.99 (the royalties they receive by Amazon are cut in half otherwise), indies have responded to the new ruling with an average 5 % price increase.

Or do hybrid authors appear to be doing better than trad pub authors because the former outnumbers the latter (this is basic multiplication)...

self pubbed authors just don't bother.

A couple of weeks ago a spam from a self - pubbed author landed in my inbox.

I have three trad - pub author friends who are merrily taking all their old mid-list out - of - print titles to the bank with indie.

I agree on the permission thing — I really couldn't believe how many trad pub authors said things like «my agent won't let me do that,» or «my publisher wants me to write something different.»

Many of them would just love to school a self - pubbed author on why that is!

In a nutshell, a self - pubbed author prices e-books smarter and gets all the money.

I was discussing this with someone yesterday, going back and forth at possible explanations, which included that self - pubbed authors tend to work the review mines harder than their trad pubbed peers, or have more support from other indie authors reviewing, or get higher ratings due to the generally lower price of the work (greater satisfaction due to a price / performance expectation).

Okay, I understand that if you look at just the marketing alone, the trad - pubbed author comes out behind.

A note today on what I've been working on images in our social media posts and a question for trad - pub to self - pub authors regarding Amazon.

Trad pub authors also used to make it very clear that they didn't consider ebooks «real books».

My frustration with the way I heard fellow trad pub authors talk about self pub led to my dropping out of every single one of my trad pub email loops.