Sentences with phrase «stigma against self»

Even without the stigma against self - publishing, which has dogged the sector to varying degrees since its digital inception, the diversity of the indie choir has been both its glory and its challenge.

of course, i haven't completely ruled it out, but it's just hard to get away from the longstanding industry stigma against self - publishing.

Because while there are lot of sites out there geared to writers in general, in my experience as an indie author I found that they're tended to be quite a bit of bias and stigma against the self published authors at some of the those other writer sites which were really mostly populated by people interested in pursuing a traditional publication path.

Theresa's genre at the time was the romance novel, but the stigma against self - publishing was the same.

There is a very real stigma against self - publishing.

I learned that the stigma against self - publishing is disappearing, just as it did for «indie» musicians and movies.

The stigma against self - published work has disappeared among publishers.

There doesn't appear to be a stigma against self - publishers anymore which is a good thing.

What I think is most important, however, is that we not feel personally insulted that there is a stigma against self - publishing, the same way we shouldn't feel personally insulted that there is a stigma against romance.

I have been frustrated to say the least when having submitted work to agents to no avail, and finally deciding to self - publish, only to come up against a still practiced stigma against self - publishe authirs and books.

So there is a stigma against self - publishing authors who do it simply because they want to see their name on a book.

Yes the stigma against self - publishing can be very disheartening at times, but as long as your book is for sale you ARE a published author and should strive to make the best book possible because at the end of the day, that's what it's really all about.

I have an independent spirit - so I never understood the stigma against self - publishing anyway.

Not exact matches

According to PrisonFellowship.org, «Children with a parent in jail or prison are teased more often at school and «may internalize the stigma and experience lower self - esteem, especially if they identify with the incarcerated parent... Others may react with anger, defiance, and a desire for retaliation against those who reject and taunt them.

There is a history of stigma against indie or self - published titles, including claims that the quality isn't as good as traditionally published books.

Besides, it really is still fighting against that earlier stigma of being just about the only place where authors could self - publish an e-book.

And there's a stigma I think, a bias against literary authors who self - publish because they're posting stuff up on Amazon or hiring printers or print - on - demand or whatever just so they can satisfy some kind of need for vanity.

The stigma has been there in trade publishing against self publisher for decades, yet just in the past year the level of mainstream acceptance of self publishing at least here in the U.S., has increased dramatically.

These Indie numbers are encouraging, especially since just a few years ago the stigma was so much stronger against self - publishing.