Obviously Findaway Voices was developed to focus on self - published and indie authors, but they have also will appeal towards boutique and
smaller publishing houses who want to create audiobooks of their frontlist and backlist titles.
But he also wrote for a more general audience, particularly literary novels such as «Foucault's Pendulum» (1988), about three workers at
a small publishing house who hatch their own conspiracy theory, and «The Name of the Rose,» a murder mystery set in an Italian monastery in the 14th century.
Not exact matches
We Need Diverse Books Short Story Contest is open to emerging diverse writers from all diverse backgrounds (including, but not limited to, LGBTQIA, people of colour, gender diversity, people with disabilities, and ethnic, cultural and religious minorities)
who have not been
published in a traditional print fiction book format, including self -
published, independents,
small and medium
publishing houses, in all genres whether for the children's or adult market.
As someone
who — in the last eighteen months — has
published with a big six
house, a
small private press, and self - pubbed an ebook, I can tell you there's no easy route for the writer.
This news should serve as a conversation starter for authors and publishers — especially
smaller press
publishing houses —
who have yet to explore the options of international distribution, an important market option considering the lack of available English language content in direct proportion to the numbers of English speakers in many of these countries.
For one thing, independent authors - those
who self -
publish or
who are
published by
smaller, independent
publishing houses - usually rely on blogs and social media for much of their marketing.
This includes
publishing house acquisitions staff, independent or
small imprint staff, literary agents, literary managers, film and television producers, game producers, online content providers, and anyone else
who can offer authors either representation or a contract for some or all of a given book's content rights.»
Unlikely, unless there are more
small shops out there than I thought (and I include self - publishers
who create a facade of a
publishing house to try to win over more sales).
When you search, look for books
published by
small or medium - sized publishers, because they often use freelance designers
who work for a variety of clients, rather than in -
house designers
who work exclusively for them.
Anything Is Possible will explore the adult lives of some of the children
who grew up alongside Lucy in that
small town, and will be
published in June 2017 by Random
House.
The Cry of the Icemark is yet another successful book from the
small but innovative UK publisher, Chicken
House,
who also
publish Cornelia Funke (The Thief Lord etc.) Last year they were bought by Scholastic and only time will tell whether, now they're part of a behemoth
publishing group, they'll continue to seek out the new and interesting authors that other publishers overlook!
«At the time, we were really the only ones
who were reviewing books from independent publishers and the
smaller publishing houses.
As an author
who has
published through a
small house and independently, I support Hocking's decision to sign with St. Martin's.
When I replied that I've worked with four editors at six publishers — both Big Six
houses and
smaller independents — over the course of eight novels, and have never had my work mutilated or adulterated, much less transformed into a cookie, she told me that I was «very lucky,» for she knew of many traditionally
published writers
who'd had the opposite experience.
I have a friend
who is
published by a
house so
small that their web page lists all of a dozen books right now — is that traditional?
An author nearly always requires an agent to get into a mainstream
publishing house, and agents themselves take on only a
small percentage of the authors
who submit to them.
As a writer
who's been
published through a
small house, I have seen the traditional side, and it's very «meh».
Small bookstores are being shuttered, book chains are going out of business, libraries are suffering enormous budget cuts, and every publisher - and the people
who work at these
publishing houses - is feeling a great deal of pain and stress.
But I can guarantee this: unless you're an author
who has already hit a major bestseller list and / or your book is the most important book being
published by that traditional
publishing house's imprint and / or you got paid an advance of $ 50,000 or more (in
small genres like sf or westerns) or $ 100,000 or more (in larger genres like romance and mystery), your book will not get a single title ad.
PARIS: Luc Audrain is a member of a
small club of highly specialized engineers working at major
publishing houses who are helping
publishing teams move into a digital world.
I am an indie publisher of my own books so it's basically the same thing as being an indie author, but there are
small & midsize independent
publishing houses who don't like the term indie being used for people like me.
Small presses, as the name suggests, are publishers
who operate on a much
smaller scale than the Big 5
publishing houses (Hachette Book Group, HarperCollins, MacMillan Publishers, Penguin Random
House, Simon and Schuster).
Secondly,
small press publishers bridge the gap between the large
publishing houses who require you to have an agent and the other option: self -
publishing.
But, some of the hidden gems were at a booth that
house smaller game designers
who all had their games
published by a company called AdMagic.
Akina, a
small independent
publishing house,
publishes raw and striking photographs of the underground life in Istanbul, by Çağdaş Erdoğan, a member of So Collective
who is facing jail for...