Sentences with phrase «publisher was interested in your work»

If a publisher was interested in your work he paid you an advance and published your work.

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In addition to the design changes and features for making money, Medium is also taking another interesting step — it is making it easy for publishers to adapt their content so that it works with Facebook's Instant Articles and Google's Accelerated Mobile Pages standard.

Among other things, it is working hard to get publishers and advertisers interested in its Facebook Audience Network, which allows ads outside of the Facebook site or app to be targeted to users based on the data that the social network has about their interests.

While Team Ninja and publisher Tecmo Koei didn't elaborate on how Move and Ryu's katana will work together, we're holding out hope for optional 1:1 motion controls - or at the very least, something a little more elegant than waggle.If you're not interested in waving a glowing wand around, though, take heart: Ninja Gaiden 3 still feels pretty great with a regular controller.

Emily Victorson, co-founder and publisher of Allium Press of Chicago, will talk about how publishing with a small press differs from self - publishing, when it makes sense to pursue traditional publishing, the advantages of working with a small press, how to identify small presses that might be interested in your work, how to pitch to a small press, and how being published by a small press can be a valuable first step in your publishing career.

This is very exciting news and I would be interested in submitting work to Tirgearr Publishers, and kept informed of its progress.

I am sure that high profile publishers would be interested in work of this quality.

There's a popular belief among authors that if they self - publish and demonstrate that their books can generate huge sells, a traditional publisher will take an interest in their work.

Obviously you know little about how the book business works, if you really think there's a conspiracy to silence your precious voice, or that publishers aren't interested in publishing great books that will make money.

At IngramSpark, we believe it's in your best interest to be recognized as the owner of your work and a publisher in your own right.

-- 59.4 per cent of self - publishing authors do so to have creative and financial control over their work, followed by just over one - third who were unable to interest a traditional publisher in their work.

The reasons behind this trend include authors» desire to have creative and financial control of their work, and being unable to interest a traditional publisher in their work.»

It is sad, ironic, that Amazon, the major player in enabling self publishers to publish, chose to do it in a way that works counter to good writers (of any mode) interests.

How to Land an Agent for a Self - Published Book (Jane Friedman): This is a must - read if you've self - published, but you're also interested in working with a traditional publisher.

Want to meet and dialogue with publishers and editors who are interested in your work?

-LSB-...] Here are some insights for those trying to interest an agent or publisher in their works: Jennifer Slattery discusses writing queries that get read, Steve Laube explains what happens in the agency after a writer sends in a proposal or query, and Jacob Warwick explains how to make powerful pitches to large publications.

Already they are taking a risk in working with a new writer and hoping they can get a publisher interested, so spending time working on revisions with you makes that risk more steep.

All too often their works are ignored by the corporate publishers who are more interested in serving up their chain store consumables for a public lost in our mass produced fast - food induced art world.

People are beginning to notice that big publishers are not really all that interested in authors or readers; they are interested in consolidating control of distribution channels so that the only participants in culture are creators who work for little or nothing and consumers who can only play if they can pay.

I was a literary agent by then, so I knew Becky's platform was strong enough that larger publishers would be interested in working with her.

What is interesting to see in this new shift is that Bloomsbury's submission guidelines for this new imprint include the requirement that authors provide information on their social media standings, meaning the publisher wants to see how much reach and influence (re: built - in consumer base) the author has before agreeing to publish the work.

«With the increasing level of interest in Chinese language, literature, and culture in both the United States and around the world, we believe that the time is right to offer these classic works in electronic editions that will appeal to both the general reader and the educational market,» said Jonathan Karp, President and Publisher of the Simon & Schuster trade imprint.

A final major benefit of traditional publishing, and what I believe to be the most important, is the fact that, with a publisher, a writer has a team of experts in every aspect of book production — i.e., editing, copy editing, legal review, when necessary, cover design, formatting, marketing, and publicity — who work together with a common, vested interest in making a book the best representation of the author and the publishing house that it can be.

While some previously published authors have found their way to our modest abode, they are ones who either have a particular interest in digital — the new market and its innovative possibilities, have found their current agents and publishers resistant to digital - based works, or have been bribed with delicious chocolate and excellent royalty rates (mostly chocolate though).

I find it interesting that people make this into an either / or thing, I'm doing both, indie publishing shorter works that there's no point offering a trad publisher, while my novel is in the hands of my agent.

At the Alliance of Independent Authors, we have many members who work in niche and experimental areas that are not of interest to mainstream publishers, who are building a wide readership and deep following directly with readers.

But for years he couldn't get a literary agent or publisher interested in his work, so he concluded that his childhood ambition was unrealistic and went back to computer programming.

Such an author would likely feel welcomed and supported, when she can work with editors and publishers that are attuned to the interests and needs for creators in that genre.

Interesting for self - published books is the tendency for older works to rise in earnings, something that's flat for Big - 5 publishers.

For her part, Authors Alliance co-founder Pamela Samuelson gave an interview to Publisher's Weekly that very clearly illustrates how the organization isn't even on the same radar as the Authors Guild, instead planning to advocate for authors who are interested in making their works available on a widespread, no cost basis.

One of the major surprises, though, was that many publishers are still not tapping into the wealth of their back list titles; this could be one of the reason more and more authors are attempting to regain control of the rights to their older — and often out of print — works in an effort to revitalize interest in the author and in the works by self - publishing them to electronic platforms.

In the era of traditional publishing, many authors were rejected by publishers or were unable to raise interest in their worIn the era of traditional publishing, many authors were rejected by publishers or were unable to raise interest in their worin their work.

Make a list of agents or publishers who might be interested in your work.

As an extra for my clients, I even try to help them market their work with advice and suggestions as to who might be interested in their novels or nonfiction books (publisher, agent, etc.).

Agents have in - depth knowledge of the publishing industry and will know which editors / publishers are most likely to be interested in your work.

Peruse bookstore shelves for similar titles to find publishers that might be interested in your work.

Thankfully, I found a few publishers who are interested in shorter works of fiction and submitted it there.

An agent is someone who represents you and your work to book publishers, studios, production outfits, and other groups that might be interested in your work.

Many readers consider agents and publishers to be working in the background because it is authors that they are interested in.

Make sure you have a strong web presence because if an agent or publisher does decide they're interested in your work, that's the first thing they do... Google.

So yes, most trad publishers aren't interested in my work.

For anyone interested in publishing their own work, Guy Kawasaki and Shawn Welch's ebook APE: Author, Publisher, Entrepreneur is an absolutely essential read.

«Not too far in the future, the author comes to the Pubslush site,» Ioannou says, «gets a checklist of the steps that the book needs; gets to choose an editor who has lots of experience with that kind of book or a young editor just starting out who will do the work more cheaply; sees samples of the work of a lot of cover designers and picks one; sees an array of publishers who might be interested in publishing the book — or gets various options to self - publish; and gets help to pay for it all» with crowdfunding «or can just pay for it all on the spot if that option appeals more.»

The real expense to the publishers would be in encouraging customers to go to a lot of work (signing up for a direct purchase account, providing their private send - to Kindle email and then telling Amazon it's okay to accept emails from the publisher) only to have the service likely be discontinued due to lack of interest OR if it is somehow miraculously a success, have Amazon shut it down for them.

This is exactly the problem with DRM, where badly executed schemes keep punishing the customers most interested in working directly with publishers.

It's interesting to me that the self - published works in this sample have a higher average rating than the e-books from major publishers.

You don't have to look very far at all to realise they're not looking for a publishing deal and have no interest in working with traditional publishers.

And, like lots of businesses, it seems they're more interested in protecting their own short - term profits and salaries and bonuses than in working on a long - term, sustainable business plan that's fair to readers, authors, and publishers in the new digital world.

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But agents get paid on selling rights and in the time we've been together, there hasn't been enough interest in my work from traditional publishers.