Sentences with phrase «trad author»

But I know so many trad authors who were devastated over their covers and titles (and then were basically «paying» for those design services for their lifetime in royalties).

The bigger issue of trad authors behaving badly generally does not impact me personally.

Many DIY authors will have a lot of information and support to share when many trad authors switch to independent publishing.

I know you imagine all the indie authors falling into a big trash heap, forgotten, while trad authors go sailing back into the limelight.

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.

You are not one of the big 5 and many of us commenting on Joes blog have trad author friends.

You really need to stop buying into the indie versus trad author war.

Oh, it's so shocking that indie authors were writing books about S&M, unlike trad authors like Anne Rice and E.L. James writing about S&M!

Being multiply - published (whether trad or indie) means you have to take another look at where your career is going, not just how to «break in» or «get the next contract» — being indie means that's all in your control (for better and worse), whereas trad authors will likely have agents and editors weighing in, or even trying to steer the boat.

A few taunts thrown down by trad authors / agents / editors sends the goths storming the walls into a fury.

And speaking as a formerly trad author, I KNOW that for a fact.»

What I want to say is this is matter between trad authors, trad publishers, and Amazon, there's no reason for customers and self publish authors to meddle or dictate how much big trad publishers SHOULD sell their own ebooks.

Self - Publisher, Author, Writer, hybrid author, trad author, indie, etc etc..

The indie author, however, first had to shell out several hundred to several thousand dollars on editing services, cover design, etc., which the trad author didn't have to pay.

So, in fact, the indie author is coming to the marketing table with a negative balance, while the trad author is at zero.

But those graphs also claim the zero income for 20 % of both self - pub and trad authors, which makes ZERO sense to me.

However, ten years (or less) isn't that long a time for writing a lot of books, so the indie - only authors who naturally write very quickly, and the ones who had a lot of backlog ready to put up, were able to get ahead of the trad authors whose houses didn't upload ebooks / didn't have rights back yet, and the newer indies who write more slowly.

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.

More fans from more diverse places who are less likely to care — all those areas you have access to as a trad author but which are barred to self publishers, some review sites, some national press, some book shops.

Trad authors can take that information and push for better agents, better contracts, better backmatter, better marketing, etc..

I thought 3 years ago, trad authors would have that realization, but they are starting to now.

With author Alexandra Lynwood in faithful pursuit, however, even the engaged and engaging Zacharius seems to run up on yet another interesting silence: The Silence of the Trad Authors.

We are so used to assuming that at $ 4.99 a KDP author sees about $ 3.45 (assuming the small data charge) and that a trad author sees $ 0.85 (25 % of net).

(Few trad authors with fewer than ten books out are making a killing either — I know a lot of the scifi and fantasy trad authors doing well who started in the last 5 - 7 years have a lot of books out already).

Tsually when you bring trad and indie together the conference is mostly a trad - minded conference that has tied down a bit a self - publishing stream or it's a couple of self - publishing bits for the trad authors who have never heard of self - publishing and so we educate in that very low level.

The trad author can write that fast, but publishing?

Trad authors have too little control.