Sentences with phrase «rejected by every publishing house»

For decades it was dismissed as the desperate refuge of authors rejected by publishing houses, wannabes who paid a fee to a musty vanity press that would dutifully typeset their words and transform them into a few boxes of books that the «writers» could hand out to their friends.

A number of us — including Ezra Pound, leader of the modernist movement — have been been rejected by every publishing house in New York.

If you put aside Inkitt's overheated claims about artificial intelligence, you'll find a publisher that just wants to do the write thing: «Inkitt's goal is to remove the middle person so that a blockbuster book is never rejected by a publishing house again.»

Not exact matches

1975: Pelican, a small publishing house, publishes Ziglar's first book, See You at the Top after it had been rejected by 30 other publishers.

But I finished my first book, snagged an agent, then was rejected by all of the major publishing houses.

Self - publishing, for many, has been an incredible avenue for authors that were either rejected by traditional publishing houses or might've been if they'd queried.

We've provided a lot of authors, who've spent in some cases decades being rejected by the traditional houses, the chance to finally hold a published copy of their book.

She said that when it was finally rejected (because it was too similar to another book being published by a big name house), «we realized this was a concern we were likely going to run into elsewhere, so Hoover made the choice, in consultation with me, to go the independent publishing route and be the first to work with our agency in this capacity.»

Her next step, after being rejected by multiple publishing houses, was to self publish her first book and let the readers decide on its worth.

Not long ago, an aspiring book writer rejected by traditional publishing houses had only one alternative: vanity publishing.

(Janny, don't read this:) People, if you've been rejected time after time by the Christian houses (and there aren't that many left), before you self - publish in any way, please consider the reputable small presses out there.

If you've been rejected by established publishing houses or just want to try releasing a completely independent publication, what is the best path to success?

A young author, Amanda Hocking, rejected by major publishing houses, has become a millionaire in less than a year, by taking her writing into her own hands.

While some books that are literary garbage do get picked up by publishing houses, many others that are hidden gems end up rejected until the author finally surrenders.

He spoke of rejecting a recent offer by one museum to give him a major one - man show («They weren't willing to demonstrate a real commitment»), and of refusing the repeated overtures of a major publishing house that professed interest in doing a book on his work («They demanded a picture before they would proceed»).

Harry Potter and the Philoshopher's Stone was rejected by the first dozen publishing houses to which it was submitted.