In this article, Lit Agent Julie Barer
tells trad authors to keep their day jobs: «I know it's somewhat of an unpopular opinion, but I think it's unrealistic to expect that you can support yourself solely as a writer in this economy.
I drove down to NO just for the book signing, and I can
tell you the trad authors were just as crowded at their tables.
Not exact matches
Once again, Kozlowski's argument is to infantilize the reader and whine that they need to be «protected» from the scourge of indie
authors, as if the average reader can't
tell a poorly written, sloppy book from the crisp and beautiful books produced by
trad publishers.
Nothing like
telling trad pubbed
authors just how much bank they're losing due to their contracts.
The most
telling is the amount
trad publishers are making off of eBooks while
authors are sucking wind with them.
Lawyer David Vandagriff, who runs The Passive Voice and who comments using the handle Passive Guy, said it was «interesting how little many of these big - selling
trad pub
authors understand about the book business», claiming that this came from «listening to what their publishers and agents
tell them».