Sentences with phrase «trad pubbed writers»

I know many, many trad pubbed writers going this route.

At that level, most trad pub writers don't get content / developmental editing anymore.

Interesting tidbit — almost as many SP writers make this amount as trad pub writers.

Not exact matches

This blog is mainly for newer writers, not bestselling trad pubbed authors like you.

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:

Second, what I was saying that if Good Writer writes Good Book and sends it to either market — trad or self pub — in a proper, professional manner, they seem to have roughly equal success rates.

My latest idea: (1) query agents because I already wasted all of that time on those days I had writer's block researching agents & writing a synopsis, query letter, book proposal THEN (2) if I don't get any takers at trad - pub within a reasonable period, I self - pub because I already wasted all of that time on those days I had writer's block researching book bloggers & reviewers, building two websites, making or editing videos & writing tweets, Facebook posts, blogs.

Not every writer is a skilled businessman and for them trad pub is best.

The majority of self - pubbed writers are not serious or realistic about it, and they would have been unlikely to have been successful in trad publishing either.

And that writers opting to go indie / self pub are at least as realistic as those opting to go trad.

But that being said, please, if any new writers * do * go through trad - pub (and this isn't for you, Diane, because I know you're a pro at all this and have been for longer than me), read the contract carefully and know * exactly * what you're signing on for.

And, because of guilt - by - association, it's an annoyance for the emerging generation of indie writers who chose not to bother with the agent / trad - pub route, but who are every bit as «pro» as their trad - pub counterparts.

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

I will admit that the self - pub side of Writer Inc takes up most of my activity, but the trad side also drains me a bit — in terms of branding (they're starting to follow up on our efforts at the pubs now, I've noticed) and the tax - related stuff.

Not that writers are * paying * trad publishers to be published, but in the sense that our time is worth money and (possibly) more income (certainly higher royalty rates) if we self - pub instead of choosing trad pub.

I have the same caliber of people doing my editing and cover design as any trad - pubbed writer.

In the case of Vanquish Writer's Block (and my other self - pub books), I knew that in many cases they were too short for a trad house to pick up AND I knew I could get them out to my readers faster and more effectively.

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).

The first, trad pubbed female author I believe, did a poor job of mentoring, I complained and was re-assigned to the Indie published woman writer, who was fabulous.

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

Most unusual, too, as they used me as the exemplar of «non-English degreed writer» alongside a guy who runs a Creative Writing program (at a different school) and a trad - pubbed writer.

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.

As well, my concern as a professionally published author is that aggressive marketing (TV commercials, Youtube trailers, fancy websites etc.) are creating a successful viral marketing paradigm for self - pubbed fiction that has the potential to impact trad publishing & leave writers wondering «why bother with the arduous and often heartbreaking process of queries, rejection slips, the endless waiting, etc. when the neighbor simply threw up a website, hired a gang of marketing professionals and bingo, Neil Gaiman is reviewing their book before it's even published?!»

For some time now we've seen how senior editors in trad pub have delegated more of the scut work to either junior assistants or primarily onto the backs of the writers themselves.

My point is that self - published writers aren't posing any threat to traditionally published writers, but trad - pub tend to make self - pub feel very bad when their paths cross.

Being a brand new author with no following does tend to suppress pricing options, which is why so many great mid-list writers in trad - pub never got the chance to build a following.

Many of these same writers, along with equally talented newcomers who skipped the trad pub detour altogether, quickly formed the so - called «outliers» in the indie world.

Instead of the tsunami of crap so many predicted, a bunch of great writers who were denied a real chance in the trad pub world started delivering amazing quality at low - low prices.

Despite the frustration and bitterness they hear from their trad - pub - aspiring or trad - pub - abandoning peers, these indie writers are sanguine.

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

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.

And it's funny how the most vocal anti-trad publishing writers owe their success to a trad - pubbed career.

My opinion is that if I am paying a bloated price for a trad pub book and the profits are going into the maw of the mothership of a multi-national corporation, instead of to the writer, then I will buy indie except for the very small list of writers (some of them yours) that I support because I consider them friends.

Some of the best writers in the world chose to leave the confines of trad pub and take their careers in their own hands.