In related matters, last week Hey Lady posted about the issue of negative reviews, particularly whether bloggers are obligated to positively review books
they receive from publishing houses and whether publishing houses can refuse to provide review copies to bloggers on the basis of their reviews.
Not exact matches
But instead, she
receives a major rejection
from a
publishing house for her book The Lost Innocent.
In addition to teaching at New York University School of Law, he's writing a book for which he reportedly
received an advance of more than $ 1 million
from publishing house Alfred A. Knopf.
Imagine self -
publishing with iUniverse, and then
receiving a phone call
from a traditional
publishing house — they want to pick up your book!
Major
publishing houses were reneging on deals with already signed authors; changing royalty payments
from a percentage of the retail price to «net» of what was
received.
-- Here is the subject line
from an email I
received from Simon & Schuster today: «This week's ebook deals under $ 3» Remind me, is Simon & Schuster a professional
publishing house?
Imagine self -
publishing with iUniverse, and then
receiving a phone call
from a traditional
publishing house — they want to pick up your book!
We
receive submissions
from independent authors, small publishers, and
publishing giants such as Random
House, HarperCollins and Simon & Schuster, with contestants that range
from the first - time, self -
published author to New York Times bestsellers like J.A. Jance, James Rollins, and # 1 best - selling author Daniel Silva, as well as celebrity authors like Jim Carrey (Bruce Almighty), Jonathan Frakes (Star Trek) and Henry Winkler (Happy Days).
At the time that she was expecting to
receive remarks
from her editor at the
publishing house, she instead
received a letter telling her they were going with a ghostwriter to finish the series.
«Dana's knowledge of the subject matter and
publishing industry was quite impressive — offering advice on character development, descriptive settings and prose to make your manuscript stand out
from the thousands of submissions agents, reviewers and
publishing houses receive every day.
So if you
received a traditional
publishing contract
from a major
publishing house and / or an agency agreement
from an agent, please black out all the personal information and send it to me.
After a successful pre-sale campaign with Publishizer — that resulted in over 300 books sold — I
received interest
from fifteen
publishing houses and signed a deal with Harvard Square Editions.
Revisions done by author and sent back to
publishing house: 7 - 30 days
from the time the revision letter is
received.
Without a literary agent or
publishing house to deal with, all the royalties you
receive from each sale go straight into your own pocket.
, and
received a request for a full manuscript
from an editor at a
publishing house.
Until you are
published and
receiving meaty critiques
from professional editors at
publishing houses, look for critique partners to do heavy edits.
Part of the draw to traditional
publishing for me is the thrill of
receiving that elusive approval
from an agent, an editor, and a well - respected
publishing house.
If a handful of best - selling authors are
receiving say 50, 60 or even 70 % or more of the net revenues
from their books, that would majorly skew the figure for the percentage of all revenue paid to all authors, especially since the brand name bestselling authors must be earning a higher percentage of overall revenue at most
publishing houses than say an average mid-list author.
In the end, the final product that is put up for sale is a product of the author, the editors, the graphic designers, the marketing team, and anyone else
from the
publishing house that tweaked the original manuscript in a way that would make it more profitable, and the author ends up
receiving about 15 percent of the profits yielded
from the sales.
Musicians need to educate themselves about whether they are
receiving value
from the
publishing house / record company intermediaries in exchange for the money they are giving away in those contracts.