Sentences with phrase «think trad pubbed»

So my love for them is deeper, but I've never thought trad pubs were anything but large dominant players in a business where my goals ran toward setting up a nice cottage industry in the cracks they missed.

I think the trad pubs now get that, and with the DOJ causing grief, have to play nice.

I honestly don't think these trad pub heavyweights can «engage» in the way you want them to.

Not exact matches

I can't stress enough not to self pub just because you think it takes too long to be trad published.

But none in the traditional publishing arena, because, however lousy one reader or another may think a trad - pubbed book, at the very least SOMEBODY liked it besides the author.

When you think about it, it makes sense: back when trad pub limited us to one book a year per author, there were still plenty of people who became fans of Terry Prachett, Mercedes Lackey, Patricia Briggs and David Weber.

You know, when the term Stockholm Syndrome started to get applied to trad pubbed authors I thought it was a bit much.

The problem is I think the same amount of work and effort needs to go into a self - pubbed book as a trad - pubbed one.

But when I think about the NA I'd have missed covering if I only covered the trad - pubbed stuff, I'd have missed all but one of my five - star titles.

I'm trading the indie ebook market (which I think the book has peaked in) for the trad pub ebook market

I think with the way the industry's changing, it's very likely that even trad - pubbed authors will have options for retaining (or regaining) audiobook rights at some point in their careers.

I think when the first AE report came out, July 2014, showing the sales shares of indie vs trad pub genre books, was the moment I realized that the Tra Pubs were in deep, deep, pre-processed grass and oats.

Another question: do you think the discounting by Amazon could be on purpose, because they noticed big publishing was practicing deep discount conditions with Amazon's discounts, and Amazon knew the more discounting it would do, the more trad pub and hybrid authors would be screwed, and tempted to become only self - published authors?

Because this is just what trad - pubbed authors probably thought about Amazon's launch of KDP.

I truly thinks it benefits us all to learn about self - pub and trad - pub methods.

If terms could be better for writers, then I think many of us would feel better about going with trad pub / indie pub.

I do know that you've been on the trad - pub path, and I think your women's fiction / romance books are the kind that will do well there.

Those books started as trad - pub too, but now I'm so many years into self - pubbing it that I don't give it a second thought.

As I close in on 50 novels published, I don't think I'm suffering from a lack of my work being available, so see no reason to kill myself on more than a novel every quarter, which in trad pub circles would be considered near miraculous, and for me would be a vacation.

I would think trad - pub houses would be less likely to do this than first - time indie authors, because the pub - houses have been around the block a few times, but that's not true!

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).

As both a trad pubbed author, and now an indie, I found your article thought provoking and heartening.

So many indies think they need a «professional website» as well as a blog in order to be «real authors», but here you are — a trad pubbed author — supporting my advice: One site is plenty, people!

Anyway — thanks again for writing such a good article, it's certainly food for thought; and has made me even more glad that I decided to stick with the self - publishing instead of chasing the trad pub dream, ha ha!

I'm prolific, too, and I think that Indie offers a great way for authors (in addition to, or instead of, trad pub) to get their work out there.

Because thinking about it now, Amazon should have gamed out the possibility that Trad Pub goes under when BN does.

I don't think many authors are any worse off than when trad pubs were guarding the gate.

But I don't think the plan was ever to put Trad Pub out of business.

p.s. I don't think the divide is self - pub / trad - pub (which few people know) or even edited / not - edited (which fewer people know) but know / unknown.

I think this kind of freedom is what I love most about self - publishing, and it's equally open to trad - pub authors like Kate above (assuming you don't have a non-compete clause in your contract) as it is to self - published authors.

This thinking has to begin permeating the trad pub establishment.

I was pointing up the differences and I think that's a point where they differ (self - pub authors generally aren't trying to get into bookstores)-- and it struck me in Saundra's article (also Elana's later) that there was as much emphasis on pitching directly to booksellers for trad - pub authors.

p.s. I'll have to think about doing that post on the sweat equity that goes into marketing self - pub vs. trad pub.

Now I think writing the sequel is smart (if you have self - pub as any kind of a backup plan to your trad - pub ambitions).

To be fair, I think some forward thinking trad - pubs are rethinking this old paradigm as well (along with encouraging their authors to write faster, like indies, and publish side material, also like indies).

So as I survey the landscape, I'm thinking to myself, if I have to do all the work myself anyway, what makes trad pub such a great draw?

And then I remembered, I had an agent, a great agent, I wrote great books (so all the rejecting editors told me) and yes, you are right, self pub has given my stories a voice and an ear and the chance to be read, when they otherwise would have still been gathering dust on my hard drive, yet, on the other hand this is hard, REALLY HARD, it is SO hard to find your way to a readership as a SP, with limited funds (dwindling)... and the glimmer of trad pub — with their power to splash your name around established circles of readers, and their ability to secure a great number of reviews where, as a self pub, doors have been slammed in my face — becomes temptingly shiny again, (it's like childbirth, you forget all the painful stuff with time)... and it all gets very tempting... almost tempting enough to consider sacrificing one work JUST one artistic premise for the trade off of visibility... and then perhaps, just perhaps THEN, my SP efforts will finally sprout wings... but then I hear you and other say, it wasn't worth it, you'd never do it again, and I sigh... And then I wake up the next morning and think of packing it all in, and going to work for Walmart and steady shitty pay... lol And then along comes this blog post.

I've met a lot of authors from the trad world who weren't happy with their covers, the relationship with the editor, or lack of overall marketing support, and while I think indie pub may be more work than some people want to put in, it bears serious consideration.

Other authors will see a different subset (note Chuck's insistence above that he doesn't think indie pays better than trad - pub; that's his subset).

Most of these writers don't waste a thought on trad pubs.

Even long - time trad - pubbed authors who think they know the ropes can make fatal errors because self - publishing has a different set of rules.