Sentences with phrase «see that out of indie»

You just don't see that out of indie studios, especially with a game that focuses on story as much as Masquerada does (there is a LOT of voice acting here).

Not exact matches

The AV Club's Scott Tobias, on the other hand, sees little to enjoy in this «limp pile of indie quirk,» but the harshest words come from Slant: «A dismal, D - grade sitcom stretched out to wafer - thin feature length....

Usually the preferred composer for Spike Jonze and the Coen Brothers, last year saw composer Carter Burwell miss out on scoring duties for the filmmakers» latest efforts in favor of musicians — indie band Arcade Fire subbing in for «Her» and T. Bone Burnett leading a group of cast - members and musicians for a period - authentic folk soundtrack in «Inside Llewyn Davis.»

Up until the end, Manson Family Vacation plays out like a lot of other estranged brothers stories we've seen many times in other indie films.

Mirroring her impressive work in the little - seen 2003 indie drama, Pieces of April, this spirited outing is a welcome reminder of the former Dawson's Creek star's considerable talent.

These are not the types of stock, frustratingly played - out child characters seen in most American cinema, be it indie or mainstream.

If an Indie writer puts only one work out and sells 10 copies a year I can see your point of view, but Indie authors sells 10 copies every hour, and if readers buy their books and enjoy reading them, those Indies ARE authors, whatever you can think otherwise.

Frankly I want to tear my hair out because I'm seeing dozens of indie authors selling more than me and making more money that I am.

In the last post I quickly detailed out how I saw indie writer after indie writer shoot themselves in the foot with their publishing when it came to sales of their books.

Indie publishers often see themselves as victims who are locked out of well - deserved opportunities by a cadre of hypocritical profiteers, but the truth is not so cut and dry.

I see so many indie authors tweet the crap out of their work, up to the point where you see the same, auto - mated tweets every, and I mean EVERY single day.

But with indie publishing running so much of the industry now, the playing field is really evened out and a lot of the big mojo that used to hit the bestseller lists is being seen in fiction — which often doesn't report to these lists, or authors are selling lots of copies of all of their books, as opposed to one, singular title.

In the last column, I looked at the publisher listed for the Top20 books, just out of curiosity, to see what the «indie penetration» is in each genre.

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But rather than segregating self published books, what I would rather see is an education of the public to differentiate between the terms vanity publishing (which I think most folks agree is generally bad and awful and will never lose its stigma), self - publishing (which often connotes work that has not been properly vetted by people who know how to judge a good product) and indie publishing, which is a term that those of us who use it are hoping will come to mean quality — work that has been vetted by independent editors and formatted by people who give a damn about putting out a professional product that rivals anything put out by New York.

I thought about approaching different indie publishing firms in New York, but honestly I was kind of afraid to send it out to people because I knew it was a really good idea and I'd never seen another book on the market like it.»

Since we started to review Readers back when the Kindle 2 first came out, we have seen the rise of Barnes and Noble, Kobo and many indie companies.

As a writer's coach and a successful indie author since 2002, much of what was revealed here came as no surprise to me, and the comments made in the interview were the same old arguments I've seen brought out over and over, which is by no means a criticism.

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Picking up from Tucker in that last bit about embracing differences — and knowing that the IndieReCon team is now going into a period of evaluation to map out the way forward — I might offer this, too: at our Author (R) evolution Day conference (#ARDay) in New York, debuted by O'Reilly Tools of Change for Publishing on February 12, it became evident that the concept of an «entrepreneurial author» may be more germane to what we're seeing now than that of an «indie» or independent or self - publishing or traditionally publishing or hybrid author.

If you check out the various Amazon digital lists, you will see a number of indie published e-books on them.

The Kboards Writer's Cafe (a popular forum where indie writers hang out and discuss the industry) is chock full of threads about the evils and praises of Kindle Unlimited and how something that might have worked in 2012, now doesn't, and on and on, but there is no denying that new authors are coming onto the scene and seeing a lot of success all the time, even in 2016 as they did in 2011 - 2012.

-- Indie publisher runs out of time and patience and since they haven't been writing, they see no hope.

My friend also can see the value of indie publishing other work and had planned to write some extra material to indie publish, not only to make more money and have more fun writing, but to support the traditionally published books which were coming out one per year.

As I scanned the list I saw a bunch of names that meant nothing to me (I'm constantly amazed at how many indie authors are out there) along with a few I did know, a couple that should be recognizable to most of you.

And I see even more indie authors opt out of the editing process — not the proofreading process, mind you, but the actual developmental editing process — because the threat of the unknown is too much to bear.

And now after finally unleashing my debut Fantasy on the world, with the release of its sequel a few months out, I'm so glad that I broke my way into indie publishing and have seen data - based potential for the sustainable career I've always wanted.

We've seen it in how they haven't condemned the publishers for ditching so many of the mid-listers, the one set of authors they always knew would sell at least a certain number of books.Now, with indie being a viable option for authors, and option that doesn't require an agent, those agents are running scared because they haven't figured out how to adapt to the new world of publishing.

They are like the folks in the discussion thread last week who see only the bad in indie and don't recognize that there are a number of excellent authors out there, more and more of whom are starting to make a living from indie publishing.

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Frankly, I see a lot more «good» writing and editing coming out of indie and small press books right now than I do the stuff coming from legacy publishers.

Pulp fiction was where authors started out because it paid less than «traditional» markets (they were mostly short stories), but with indie novels, I think (some) authors are making more money than comparable traditional publishing contracts (and I see some trad - pub authors supplementing their income with self - pub, which is also similar to some of the pulp fiction writers of the past).

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There are still a lot of journalistic reviews out there even though most indie authors have little or no expectation of ever seeing their books mentioned in them.

That being said, there are lots of really good indie authors out there putting out work that would otherwise not see the light of day.

Any time a company pulls out of a market, it strengthens the position of the remaining players, and this is a field that has seen a number of closures already, from small indie e-tailers to Borders.

One of the great things about indie publishing is that overhead is low and freedom is huge: you can write for fun, throw it out there, and see if anyone wants to buy it.

As an indie author, you're probably very excited about getting your eBook out there in front of readers, but if you want to see your sales improve, it's worth spending the extra time (and perhaps money) to do it right.

Much of what I've seen out there in indie - land, however, seems to indicate otherwise.

I'm working with an indie press right now and already they are pointing out ideas (cover art) that are better than a lot of Traditional Press covers I've seen recently.

«I've seen what indie authors call Amazon Derangement Syndrome, which is when folks in the traditional system decry anything Amazon does as being some kind of Lovecraftian Evil — any change in the way they do business is just them building a throne out of the bones of innocent children.

But I've seen the opposite, too — where indie authors can not abide criticism of Amazon, as if Amazon is like, a pal they hang out with at a bar somewhere.

I've seen successful indie authors (and there's a lot of them) burn out on the pace or struggle with keeping up with their growing business.

One of the things that we've seen, in the last week or so, is Hugh Howey and Joe Konrath, some of the big names in Indie coming out and going «Yay, KDP Select 2.0 is amazing.

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If we look at the latest ebook growth figures, and include the indie publishing figures often left out in the main stream media, we see a continuing rise in the sales of ebooks from authors outside the mainstream.

It's not uncommon to see an indie authors do well and make tons of money despite having an unprofessional cover or website, and doing half of everything wrong (they're nearly always writing books in very popular genres and doing things better than their competition... and it's worth pointing out these books can often make MUCH more money than professionally published / traditionally published books, because they have control over their pricing, promotions and advertising.)

I see two big issues with the mindset of indie authors today: (1) their expectations seem to be out of whack because of the false hope given by KDP Select after - free promotions, and (2) they're looking for the easy path to success.

You know, as much as people cry out about the whiteness of a TV show like Girls, I don't see anyone jumping up to applaud the indie writers who do employ some diversity.