Sentences with phrase «trad pub ones»

My trad pubbed ones aren't and likely won't be (they don't relinquish the rights, but they never use them, as you're saying).

Not exact matches

One of the things that struck me, and probably many others, about his report and its conclusions, is that self - pubbed titles tend to average higher review ratings than trad - pubbed books.

I'd say, if I were curious / interested in trad pub and I was a self - pubbed author, I might consider offering up a purely commercial one - off, standalone.

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.

Here's my answer to the inevitable discussion of how Trad Pub is «the one true path» and if you aren't Trad Pub'd, you aren't a real writer:

I seem to be perfectly able to separate out good indie reads from bad ones and really I'd have to go through that process of elimination with trad pubbed books as well.

But one reason I won't be publishing a lot more middle grade is because I also like to sell books... and it's just very hard to do that in indie MG (or trad - pub MG, to be honest — the market is simply smaller).

Don't get me wrong, guys — I'm not down on trad pub, and I'm not one of the folks saying that «traditional publishing is doomed».

One con to the trad pub method is that publishers don't mirror the wants of the actual market.

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.

One trad - pubbed novel can set you back $ 9.99 or more, and a single audiobook costs easily twice that.

And one of the biggest negative effects we've now created as indie authors is denigrating the value of ebooks — specifically indie ebooks, as you'll find the trad pubs don't do much, if any, free promo — in the eyes of the audience that buys them.

At any rate, the income threshold that self - pubbed authors must meet ($ 3,000) is that same one that trad - pubbed authors must meet.

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.

It's one thing to say that indie publishing is a successful alternative to trad publishing and worth pursuing, and that there are notable success stories — especially among trained, highly motivated authors — most of them with established name from trad pub backgrounds.

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.

Out of my ginormous TBR list, I've read only two trad - pubbed books this year: one, a book by Darcie Chan, who had been an indie author; and two, David Levithan's marvelous YA novel, Two Boys Kissing, which I picked up at BEA and couldn't stop reading.

That one I will market to trad pubs, or what system is around by the time I finish the book in the next year or so.

(I was not one of them, likening trad - pub to the fighter who would not go down, Jake «Raging Bull» LaMotta.)

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!

My writer's group had a discussion about this last night, and no one's happy about it, even trad - pubbed authors.

Every single one of these changes hurts indies far more than it hurts the trad - pubbed authors.

Some come to self - pubbing with a backlist, some start with self - pubbing and move existing series to trad pub, some have entirely new books they sell to trad pub (that's my case, just one title).

It might also be interesting to take one genre (because of the amount of data) and use a larger depth to see if indies at the lower end are making more than trad pub authors at the lower end of the rankings (since many of us sit down here too!)

I know brilliant writers, like RS Guthrie (whose new one, Blood Land, is a standout example of why some indie authors are completely capable of sitting at the big table with the trad pub boys), whose work isn't getting nearly the visibility it deserves.

It sounds like she is one of those «trad pub or no pub» at all types.

Rights are one area where there is a huge positive difference from trad pub.

One recent call for reviewers (of a trad pub novel that shall remain nameless) required me to apply for a limited number of paper arcs, and a slightly less limited number of eARCs, with a small essay explaining why my blog was worthy of «winning» an arc for review (when I know very well the eARCs involve no cost whatsoever).

Damian has been frantically kissing up to try and get himself in with one of the trad pubs — probably Tor or the like, in my opinion.

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'm a little late to this party but... this is one of the things the self - pub committee is working on for SFWA: we want to make the organization a brand where people can go to find trad, hybrid, and indie writers with proven track records, writing in the genres they already know they love.

Pop into one of the pubs for a festive «trad session,» and then continue to your hotel, nestled in the heart of the Burren.