Some of the speeding up of the process can be attributed to
successful hybrid authors like Hugh Howey and CJ Lyons.
A very
successful hybrid author I know just hit the top 100 in China today.
I decided on this path — marketing via free giveaways — after reading a post by
successful hybrid author Steena Holmes, in which she said that as part of her path to success, she'd focused on getting reviews over getting sales.
Not exact matches
One
author in particular — Elle James — taught me a lot about her highly
successful career being a
hybrid author, working with traditional houses as well as being a driven indy
author with a great track record.
Unless the
author has chosen a
hybrid publishing package that includes sales and distribution, few if any stores will have the book on their shelves if the
author's marketing is
successful in raising awareness and driving potential readers into stores.
Some
authors who had been
successful with traditionally published books, but who wanted to branch out into a different genre, went «
hybrid» — still doing some books with their traditional publishers but also doing some «indie» publishing of their own.
I've definitely hedged my bets, because I'm still conventionally published here in the UK, but I love this model of being a
hybrid author and I think people will go both ways:
successful self - pub
authors will become
hybrids in the other direction.
Spoken from a very narrow perspective and with absolutely zero knowledge of how
successful Indie and
Hybrid authors operate.
One of the hot new buzzwords mentioned at DBW this year was the concept of the
hybrid author, and data was presented that showed that
hybrid authors may be arguably some of the most
successful and most satisfied
authors in the publishing industry.
Today's
successful authors know that there isn't a right or wrong way to publish, as a matter of fact some of the best are going
HYBRID!
As I said before, many
successful authors are
hybrids; it doesn't have to be an all - or - nothing approach.
Rare are the self - published
authors who manage to get their books in physical brick - and - mortar bookstores (unless they've gone
hybrid, but that's only possible if you're hugely
successful to begin with...)
The
hybrid model where some books are traditionally published and others are indie published seem to be growing and is perhaps the sweet spot for the most
successful authors.
I'm Brian Rathbone, a
successful self - published writer with a good chance of soon becoming a
hybrid author, who is both self - published and traditionally published.
· Sylvia Dayand Jennifer Armentrout will reveal their secrets on how to be a
successful and bestselling
hybrid author
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But the days of the
successful «
hybrid»
author, with one foot in trad publishing and the other in self - publishing, could be soon over.
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Authors interested in
hybrid publishing have been finding success with BookBaby for years, and Smith Publicity is pleased to have become part of many of these
authors» successful book marketing
authors»
successful book marketing plans.