Sentences with phrase «traditional editor»

Some of them come at this from having been self - published authors who caught the attention of traditional editors and publishers.

Use feedback from major traditional editors as a sign of quality, even if they can't buy your book for some marketing reason.

Very few beginning writers are trying this method yet because they are afraid traditional editors will come to their houses and break their fingers (or some other fear just as stupid.)

Then mail a copy of the trade paperback with a cover letter and quick synopsis and a SASE to five traditional editors who might buy it for their line.

A writer might be able to compose sparkling prose that makes the sample pages look good, but hasn't learned story construction, and what seems fine on the basis of a few pages might be a meandering, poorly plotted mess that an experienced traditional editor would have sent back for rewriting in days of yore.

As you note, a key distinction between traditional editors and traditional authors is that editors draw a paycheck, giving them a kind of security most authors never know (at least directly from their written work).

Some of them come at this from having been self - published authors who caught the attention of traditional editors and... [Read more...]

Very few beginning writers are trying this method because they are afraid traditional editors will come to their houses and break their fingers (or some other fear just as stupid.)

In indie publishing, the readers might find the book and start talking about it and if the book has something special a traditional editor missed, the book's sales could explode.

«New words» means finished words that can be either indie published or sent to traditional editors.

At one point, I told her the same thing another writer / editor had told me: you'll have to choose between working as a traditional editor and your writing.

Mailing manuscripts to traditional editors is -LSB-...]

You do not need an agent to get a traditional editor to look at your book.

Everybody who's seen your work tells you that you're a great writer, so you're looking forward to self - publishing and skipping out on the costs of a traditional editor.

You can send a novel to a traditional editor or put it up indie published for publishers and readers to see.

As a smart writer who likes the traditional editor my friend works with, my friend told the editor about the plan for indie publishing a finished book.

2) How many manuscripts you put on the market for sale, meaning how many do you mail to traditional editors and how you keep them in the mail to as many editors as you can over time.

You have the feeling she could talk a traditional editor into resigning and joining her.

You can send a novel to a traditional editor.

Note that though there are opportunities to catch the attention of traditional editors — in digital - first imprints of major publishers, for example.

Even as she spoke on self publishing, she referred to it as a «gig» where she uses «traditional editors and graphic designers because she didn't want the quality to suffer» saying, without saying, that self published books lack quality.