Sentences with phrase «trad publishers in»

My traditional - published experiences have been largely positive — working with Clive and the people at G.P. Putnam's was a great experience, and I've had about ten of my books bought by trad publishers in other countries, so that's exciting.

I, too noticed more activity in the market by trad publishers in what I used to term the fallow months.

So using that sales history, every trad publisher in NYC rushes about bringing out Historical vampire books...

I actually price higher in the US (where I am indie) than my trad publisher in the UK does.

Not exact matches

In terms of trad pub vs indie — most trad publishers don't want to publish collections of short fiction by unknowns, but you can submit to magazines and anthologies as well as self - publishing collections or using them for marketing.

Anne, there is no question that my humour column blog (www.melodiecampbell.com — forgive the mention) was instrumental in getting me that first publishing contract at Orca Books, a large Canadian trad publisher.

The worst thing on the planet for me would be where trad publishers start paying 50 % or more to their authors, and lose their battle with Amazon, only to see their books priced in the weeds.

Going indie in genres where the publishers aren't interested (and making more money as an indie than in trad publishing!)

You need to have some selling skills in trad publishing because you have to convince agents / publishers to take a chance on you, which means mastering the secrets of the query letter and the elevator pitch.

I tend to keep with the above list, especially for science fiction and fantasy, because that is how print books in those genres (from trad publishers) open their books.

You are right in that there are a lot of bad indie books out there, but I also think there are a lot of bad trad books out there... some of which are indie publishers that got picked up by trad publishers because readers loved the books.

That's why trad publishers still have a lot to offer, especially in the marketing area... they get your books out to the right newspapers, they get your book up for literary prizes... indeed, any newbie signing a contract tese days should take a very close look at the type of marketing the trad publisher is committed to undertake...

A publisher friend of mine assures me that trad publishers still get greater visibility for their books in ebook stores (unless it hits the Amazon top 100) and you only have to look at what pops up when you go anywhere and you can see the truth in that.

There are a few bad apples among the trad published, but far more in the self - published ranks (and stop reading that I mean ALL self - publishers, or I'm going to start recommending that you get glasses).

Joe speaks boldly about his dislike of the trad pub scene and why the ball is no longer all in the publisher's court.

What's been trending the last couple of years with trad publishers and what they're looking for now in the science fiction and fantasy genres.

Whether trad publishers are currently likely to be interested in series that were previously self published

So, to summarize — we are traditional publishers, by strict definition, and trad publishers come in small, medium and big sizes, and some are young, and others are very old.

Trad publishers only go in one direction.

Yes, trad publishers are scared and dumb in most every way, but their handling of blockbusters in the present day isn't what they're doing wrong.

Sometime in the late 1990s, when I began ghostwriting, and writing business books for trad publishers, I launched my first blog.

I find it interesting that people make this into an either / or thing, I'm doing both, indie publishing shorter works that there's no point offering a trad publisher, while my novel is in the hands of my agent.

Yes, it's a flawed process, even more so now that trad publishers are struggling to stay afloat in a sea that is rough and capricious.

Indie publishing forces you to rely on your own instincts in that it allows you to write stuff that a trad publisher wouldn't look at — not because it's bad, but because it's different.

Many go indie in the hopes that their book will be discovered by traditional publishers, only to find that after doing all the work it makes no sense to go trad.

You worked hard and produced lots of «product» for your trad publishers, and to market that work — but you also had the huge advantage of in - house editors, designers and, perhaps more important than all the rest, distribution and marketing.

Don't copy trad publishers — symbolic covers may look cool in the bookstore, but they disappear online.

Trad publishers can afford to be cool and mysterious... readers enjoy browsing bookstores, and some designs look better in print.

The trad publishers can only do so much in a world of ebooks.

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.

Now, if I were twenty years younger and in no hurry, I'd submit my books to trad publishers.

So yes, most trad publishers aren't interested in my work.

Publisher 99 % Author 1 % is Big Five Trad Pub and those smaller presses that operate in a similar fashion.

A more seasoned author who might have earned $ 20k to $ 50k from a trad publisher now earns (in some cases) six figures.

As you consistently point out in your blog posts, it's the trad publishers that are swimming in the nude.

An author with a strong brand and a good following who might have earned $ 100k from a trad publisher now earns (in some cases) seven figures.

In particular, I'm very struck by the number of trad authors in the UK who are now in almost open opposition to the publishers who are still mostly slapping high prices on an ebook at launcIn particular, I'm very struck by the number of trad authors in the UK who are now in almost open opposition to the publishers who are still mostly slapping high prices on an ebook at launcin the UK who are now in almost open opposition to the publishers who are still mostly slapping high prices on an ebook at launcin almost open opposition to the publishers who are still mostly slapping high prices on an ebook at launch.

Trad publishers don't target that reader, except in romance and NA (hot genres), because their fixed costs and overhead make targeting what is a price - sensitive market a lousy return on investment.

For those interested in her full bio, you can read her Amazon author page, but the short version is that she's sold over 3 million books, is a force to be reckoned with in the industry, and is one of only three folks I know of who have done paper - only deals with trad publishers.

But in the case of publishing, while trad publishers may not all come out on top, the changes that are occuring are better for readers, and I think for writers too.

You can see this tidal wave coming and the trad publishers are just puttering around in the surf pretending that nothing is changing and there is NO REASON TO BE ALARMED.

If enough consumers choose deep - discounting over time, always prioritizing price over the intangible benefits of other retailers and / or ignoring the effect on the local economy, those behaviors could lead to a single deep discounter getting too much of the market share, leading to monopsony or near - monopson, which has every likelihood of biting book publishers (indie or trad) in the rear due to that monopsony's ability to dictate terms.

12) Trad publishers will continue to make plenty of money, and the smart ones will be streamlining their operations in preparation for a brutal 24 - 48 months of shakeup.

I have had over 50 books published in non-fiction (textbooks) with a big US publisher so I'm pretty familiar with trad publishers and I have to say Amazon Publishing seems to get it as you say.

I have been trad published and been with three different publishers here in Ireland, got the advance, done the book tours, interviews, etc..

She has worked with Cambridge University Press, where she managed technical production cycles for books and software from development to publication, and Oberon Books, London, a specialist book publisher where she gained insight into the gatekeeping process in trad publishing.

I'd quibble on the idea that indie authors are in competition with trad publishers.

If you are trad, you complain to your publisher and then grumble in your writers group until they finally get around to fixing it.

In cases where trad publishers price their ebooks reasonably and make them available in my region, I'll buy them, but this is the exception rather than the rulIn cases where trad publishers price their ebooks reasonably and make them available in my region, I'll buy them, but this is the exception rather than the rulin my region, I'll buy them, but this is the exception rather than the rule.

The only reason trad published authors don't is that most trad publishers do NOT push the e-book and they price it so high that people see more «value» in the printed version, especially the hardcover.