Sentences with phrase «trad pub gives»

I will say that there may come a time when I may not really need the push that trad pub gives me... and then I'll go totally solo.

Not exact matches

I can't fathom giving up all that control and royalty for a trad pub deal.

With trad pubbing, you give up much of this control.

Jim and Bryan's ho - ho - holiday episode of SMBS touched upon the popular podcast Serial, the big boost adults buying YA gave the industry, Macmillan's deal with Amazon, Konrath dropping out of KU, and what trad pubs learned in 2014.

I don't know if trad publishing is the brass ring or not, but I know that I was always too frightened to self - pub before because I was given to understand it would ruin my chances at a «real» publishing contract.

Kindle subcontracts editing to Kirkus and, according to Max, «it was strictly a one way street,» unlike the give and take in the trad pub editing process.

But when you look at the «prizes,» it gives one pause: enough of an advance to last maybe three or four months, and a contract that exemplifies the worst of trad pub practices.

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.

I personally believe that Trad Pub would love to see indie sink back into the ooze whence it came, and that Amazon only gave it a real boost as a lever against Trad Pub when they were getting uppity.

(http://grumpyoldbookman.blogspot.co.uk/) Mr. Allen very kindly advised that I should give a go for a year to go the trad - pub route, which involved trying to attract the interest of an agency — and then, if nothing came of it, going indy.

Indie publishing of your work gives you access, control, and when compared to trad pub, immediate availability of the market response.

Pricing self - published books under $ 5 gives them an advantage over trad - pub books on price, which helps make up for the disadvantage of being a relatively unknown author.

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.

Amazon's Scout program makes it easy for newbies to give the whole trad - pub contract thing a whirl and has a far - higher conversion and success rates than others, like the now - defunct Harper Collins Authonomy.

I give up flexibility and I give up cost of money, so my books have trad pub access to stores.

Trad Pub still has the edge because they — at root — are still giving the customer a square deal.

As a new self - published author, I still have not given up on trad pub and the submission process.