Sentences with phrase «with author solutions»

(Writer's Digest has recently — and I think wisely — severed connections with their Author Solutions affiliate, Abbott Press.)

Every large publisher lacks a viable indie or even pseudo-indie ebook offering for their authors that could counter this pressure (and those publishers in bed with Author Solutions and ASI's sock puppet spawn are all swimming in the exact wrong direction and are on the wrong side of history if they want to protect their ebook businesses from Amazon).

* headdesk * I have personally dealt with Author Solutions staff in editing and design, and it is a waste of time and money and the only payback is heartache and misery.

David Gaughran describes it all in Simon & Schuster Joins Forces With Author Solutions To Rip Off Writers.

And they're partnering with Author Solutions to do it.

WestBow Press has once again partnered with Author Solutions to provide our authors with this great opportunity to pitch their books at Book - to - Screen PitchFest New York in October.

If you're an author, or know one, please read David Gaughran's post titled: «Simon & Schuster Joins Forces With Author Solutions To Rip Off Writers».

Please read David's article about the Simon & Schuster deal with Author Solutions (one of many warning articles on this deal published this week) to educate yourself, so you can warn other hopeful writers against being blinded by the big publisher name.

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Grow Poor Publishing With Author Solutions, iUniverse, Trafford, Xlibris, and Archway Bill Peschel

Since 2013, they've partnered with Author Solutions, one of the most infamous and controversial «vanity publishing» companies, to provide these services.

Ether for Authors today focuses on that issue in our Discussion section: Are Publishers on a Tightrope with Author Solutions?

Also be warned that a number of other big name publishers like Simon and Schuster, Harlequin, Thomas Nelson (owned by Harper Collins), and others have contracted with Author Solutions for their own money - making vanity press operations.

I highly suggest you check it out: Simon & Schuster Joins Forces With Author Solutions To Rip Off Writers

On the other hand, I spoke with only one writer who knew Barnes and Noble's Nook division partners with Author Solutions for its «self - publishing services.»

The legitimate publishers who have partnered with Author Solutions make extra money on the side, while the clueless author is happy as the proverbial pig in mud — until he later realizes that the thousands of dollars he doled out to the vanity press has produced at most a handful of sales, and his dream is crushed.

The reality is that a number of major publishing houses (the legitimate ones) have partnered with Author Solutions.

However, I have MANY problems with Author Solutions, since Trafford was bought by them, as these other people do.

I think since this company was just recently merged with Author Solutions, it must be because the Canada company was going bankrupt.

I worked for the company many years and quit before the merge with Author Solutions.

If the contest was for true self - published works, it might be worth the entry fee, but by the time someone has gone the route of true self - publishing, the last thing they're going to want is a contract with Author Solutions.

Other publishers have partnered with Author Solutions in this manner before.

What the majority didn't know was that Archway Publishing is S&S partnering venture with Author Solutions, the kink of vanity presses and running the contest.

I am familiar with Author Solutions, myself, and this development has me astonished.

I'm not familiar with Author Solutions, but it sounds like they sold out in more than one way.

Keith Ogorek brings the unique perspective of executive and author, having self - published three books during his tenure as senior vice president of marketing with Author Solutions.

That means that, if you're an author who's using print - on - demand publishing via a subsidary press, then chances are, you're working with Author Solutions.

Nowhere on the site can we find that the author is really working with Author Solutions and not Hay House.

Simon & Schuster believes it has gotten around that problem by teaming with Author Solutions, which already has a robust self - publishing business, including partnerships with Harlequin, which specializes in romance books, and Thomas Nelson, which focuses on Christian books.

But since Simon & Schuster was already far along in the planning with Author Solutions for the new brand, it decided to go forward anyway.

Simon & Schuster, a company with nearly ninety years of publishing experience, has teamed up with Author Solutions, the leading self - publishing company worldwide, to create Archway Publishing.

Simon & Schuster has teamed up with Author Solutions, the leading self - publishing company worldwide, to create Archway Publishing.

Penguin announced its recent venture with Author Solutions to bring self - publishing to the Indian book market.

Simon & Schuster has formed a strategic partnership with Author Solutions for a new self - publishing platform.

On the other hand, major companies working with Author Solutions frequently claim to care about the concerns of authors but appear to be in immediate bad faith when they seem to some writers to turn a deaf ear to this problem.

Traditional publishers have partnered with Author Solutions to launch self - publishing imprints, such as Simon & Schuster's Archway Publishing and Thomas Nelson's WestBow Press; in such operations, Author Solutions is responsible for providing and managing all services, while the traditional publisher receives what amounts to a kickback for referring a new customer.

Such companies include not only Penguin but also Simon & Schuster, which has had its Archway self - publishing operation created by Author Solutions; F+W Media's Writer's Digest, which partners with Author Solutions in its Abbott Press self - publishing offering; and Bowker's Identifier Services, which directs users to iUniverse, another Author Solutions vanity - publishing program.

Finally, Lulu received bad press in the author community when partnering with Author Solutions on author services.

Like several companies, Book Country is walking a potentially treacherous line between the actions of its corporate ownership and the wrath of influential author - community figures who decry any connection with Author Solutions.

Theresa Horner — the General Manager of Nook Press and VP of Content Acquisitions — led the negotiations with Author Solutions, which concluded in October last year.

Horner's employment with Barnes & Noble ended right after the deal with Author Solutions was concluded, but the contract between Nook Press Author Services and its users confirms her statement that Barnes & Noble plans to expand the range of services.

Finally, authors who use Nook Press Author Services are not informed that their personal details are shared with Author Solutions, along with explicit permission to use those personal details to upsell Author Solutions» infamous marketing packages.

If any company I use decides to join forces with Author Solutions, maybe the biggest scam artists on the planet, I'll drop them like a wet rock.

Partnering with Author Solutions is not acceptable.

The Brains of Creative Writers, Writer's Digest Ends Partnership with Author Solutions, and More

Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer BewareI've written many hundreds of words on this blog about the problems with Author Solutions, Inc., the biggest of the self - publishing service providers and the one with (as far as I'm aware) the worst reputatio... -LSB-...]

David Gaurghran: If you are thinking about signing up with Author Solutions, Author House, or any of their subsidiaries, please do yourself a big favor and search through David's website.

She opened up a dialog with Author Solutions and deal was struck in October.

Given the explosion of author - service providers — including the already re-branded Harlequin Horizons, and other publishers and imprints working with Author Solutions — it only makes sense to be -LSB-...]

(It is run in partnership with Author Solutions, Inc.) Balboa Press's genres extend beyond that, but stay within the realm of «self - help and transformational» themes, according to the company's website.