Passive Guy has just about decided that the differences between indie publishing and traditional publishing are so great that nearly anyone immersed in traditional publishing has almost nothing useful to
say about indie publishing.
My favorite
saying about indie publishing is, «The only constant is change.»
Found
all you said about Indie writers very useful and insightful.
In fact, didn't you and I first get to know each other when you disagreed with something ignorant
I said about indie publishing?
Not exact matches
Many in Hollywood
say they see the spiritual - memoir - turned - movie as the next hot genre, suggesting there are ongoing talks
about turning Lauren Winner's «Girl Meets God» into a romantic comedy, Ian Cron's «Jesus, My Father, the CIA, and Me» into an action flick, Anne Lamott's «Traveling Mercies» into an
indie road trip film, Kathleen Norris» «The Cloister Walk» into something really creepy involving monks.»
Cara Delevingne recently opened up
about her girlfriend,
indie pop and rock musician St. Vincent,
saying she is in love with her and feels so happy The couple - who have been dating for around eight months - are still «very much together», in spite of recent reports claiming they have parted ways.
Cara Delevingne recently opened up
about her girlfriend,
indie pop and rock musician St. Vincent,
saying she is in love with her and feels so happy Find Musicians Wanted and Musicians Available.
A meandering, whimsically surreal comedy with an
indie / Euro sensibility that wants to
say something important
about Life but never really gets around to it; fortunately, there are some standout individual scenes from the top - notch cast, including a running NORTH BY NORTHWEST gag.
That being
said, Beginners is
about as
indie as
indie gets when comparing it to some of the wider releases.
she
says, witlessly,
about Hill House's outré decor), miscast
indie - style player Owen Wilson as Luke -LRB-» Teletubbies freak me out,» he
says, idiotically, as if a pop - cultural reference will make The Haunting hip for the kiddies), and Lili Taylor as Eleanor.
But the era of the low - budget
indie film had arrived and all anybody wanted to know
about was how low the budget was, did I have a great backstory
about the film getting made, and «what was I trying to
say about the suburbs.»
The trailer still seems to be designed for an audience with tastes slightly - left - of - centre: the humour is dry and deadpan, Charlize Theron
says socially unacceptable things
about hating children, and the trailer song is still of the
indie - rock persuasion.
MG: Like you
said you are no stranger to
indie animation, what is it
about the genre that draws you?
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Your a real idiot man, ofcourse their not going to talk
about it's specs, neither does Microsoft or Sony, tech websites have already taken Wii U apart and looked at it's specs, and
said that it's great tech, and the design is clever because of the fact Nintendo is giving you some pretty beefy tech at a low cost, also these tech sites have
said, «to see what Wii U is really capable of, we need to see games built for it from the ground up», And Nintendo does have a way better understanding of Wii U's hardware, they were even holding classes at GDC last month to tech
indie & 3rd party developers how to cut development time for new games and ported games in half, with a new frame work that they developed specifically for Wii U, and your very stupid if you think that developers are not going to need to learn how to develop for PS4 & the next Xbox.
This is Ray Bradbury's warning in a new way,
says indie director Ramin Bahrani
about made - for - TV adaptation of author's 1953 novel set in an «alternate tomorrow» in which books are banned
We've
said it before, we'll
say it again, but one of the best things
about looking back over a year just gone at the movies is thinking of all the names who, just twelve months ago, we were faintly aware of at best, and who now have burgeoning careers, awards buzz, lead roles in
indie films and / or blockbuster gigs on the way.
Eventually, it's all any of his family can think
about in «Youth in Oregon,» a schematic and bathos - laden end - of - life
indie from director Joel David Moore, whose title, if you replaced «Oregon» with «Asia» and
said it out loud, cutely tells you the issue at hand.
Gemini has just enough style to never truly grate — more than one can
say about most
indie releases, which usually feature way too much polish or not nearly enough.
* Asked how he feels
about going from very small
indie films to a massive, effects - driven fantasy / comedy, Green
said: «Well, just like probably all of you guys like to see different kinds of movies every week — a little of this, a little of that — it's fun professionally to, like, get in the ring and design creatures and have guys in suits and puppets and just, y ’ know, bring in all this stuff... I remember when I was a kid, and if something like «Behind The Scenes of Return of The Jedi» would come on, I'd just be glued to the screen, wishing that one day I'd be able to get my hands dirty doing something like that.
Roundabout, a quirky
indie game
about driving a taxi in the year 1977, was re-rated by the ESRB to an M from a T, the creators
said on their blog this week.
The first thing to be
said about the warm little
indie Sunshine Cleaning is that its producers aren't shy
about wanting you to think of it as the next Little Miss Sunshine.
But the «Unity Engine Path» was a terrible way to
say; Wii U has 50 + (mostly
indie titles) coming that we «do» know
about using Unity...
In the spirit of
saying something nice
about a small
indie movie that's ultimately not harming anybody, let's stop again to praise Gerwig, who somehow manages to be both stunningly beautiful and an accessible, and occasionally very odd, onscreen presence.
Nothing
says «
indie» more than a movie
about the travails of twentysomethings, and at first blush, British writer - director Alex Barrett's feature debut, Life Just Is, would seem to fulfill all of the usual clichés.
The SAG Award nominee spoke
about his controversial role in the buzzy
indie «Whiplash,» working with a first - time director, and what Arnold Schwarzenegger
said about his triceps.
You can
say this
about Life After Beth, the
indie zombie romantic comedy (zom - rom - com?)
When an
indie stalwart and major talent like Linklater can be treated so indifferently by an
indie division, what does that
say about the current state of independent film and
about Sundance, whose identity is synonymous with it?
And like I
said, there are various
indie devs lined up for the Wii U, and I'm sure there are more we don't even know
about yet.
It usually takes
about a week for first - time actors to get over the awkwardness of having a camera in their face,
says indie director Sean Baker.
The pair's opening monologue featured the expected jabs at
indie film culture («It's definitely about losing money,» McKinnon said of investors) and some gloating over the Indie Spirits» considerably better representation of diversity in comparison to the Os
indie film culture («It's definitely
about losing money,» McKinnon
said of investors) and some gloating over the
Indie Spirits» considerably better representation of diversity in comparison to the Os
Indie Spirits» considerably better representation of diversity in comparison to the Oscars.
Read on to find out what C.L. has to
say about being an
indie author and learn more
about her books...
Comic shops are not sale or return — it's just straight sale — so they're actually MUCH more up for this sort of thing than,
say, an
indie bookstore, which will just bitch
about not being able to return unsold books.
I think it's fair to
say that when people talk
about the
indie movement in the book world, we're really talking
about a broad set of configurations from small presses to collectives of writers to individual authors, whether they create their own imprint or just operate as a self - published author in the Amazon or Smashwords universes.
And it feels weird to me for people to proclaim their independent spirit and yet take what any one figurehead
says as gospel — isn't being
indie about questioning orthodoxies and not creating new ones?
If they
say anything
about indie authors, if they don't have an ISBN, their data is not included in reports.
To this day, you hear the
indie writers shouting
about pricing in the low ranges,
saying everyone needs to do that.
And I'm avoiding like hell these kinds of traditional vs.
indie wars in which horrible things are
said about writers AND publishers.
If you're talking
about a custom order from an
indie store of some specialized title that might take longer; especially if the
indie store doesn't order in carton quantities... and by carton quantities... I'm not
saying all one title but a mixture of books to fill one carton... if that were the case the order would take longer to ship because of minimum orders.
And can't wait to hear what Roni has to
say about traditional vs
indie publishing!
Some lists will explicitly
say that they are open to
indie / self - published books, while others
say nothing
about that.
Steve Z
said: «Angry Games... this whole thing
about an author signing away rights for life is pure bs,» and «This is one of the most blogged falsehoods I see on
indie sites.»
I can't
say how much he knows or doesn't know
about indie publishing but he does know a lot
about the business.
We wouldn't go as far to
say that publishers were «excited»
about indie publishing.
Robin Cutler [00:01:12] And the «I,» as I
said, stands for International, so there's just things you need to know
about ISBNs, and one of the things we want to cover today is the importance of ISBNs related to your own published book as an
indie author.
We're going to be talking
about how do you sell your
indie book into chain stores, and when I
say chain stores, I mean like Barnes and Noble, Walmart, Target.
The other thing to know
about ISBNs, so
say you self - publish or you're an
indie author, you create your book, you put it out in the marketplace, and then you get a publishing deal with a traditional publisher.
In a recent interview,
indie writer Joanna Penn
said that her fiction and nonfiction (teaching people how to write and publish) bring in
about the same amount of revenue, but the crossover in audience is only
about 10 percent.
I polled other authors in an
indie Facebook group
about what genre they thought the book was, based on this cover, and overwhelmingly they
said «time travel».