Sentences with phrase «with hybrid publishers»

I've also worked with hybrid publishers such as Harlequin's digital - first imprint Carina Press and Amazon Publishing.

Hopefully it won't be too long before there are additional options including working with hybrid publishers that have established relationships with retailers...

While the author retains creative control when working with a hybrid publisher, they have the opportunity to utilize the services of experienced editors, designers, etc..

I published a memoir with a hybrid publisher using their designer with my home photo.

You must clearly establish the scope of services to be covered in your agreement with a hybrid publisher (or any self - publishing company).

Thank you for sharing your experience with a hybrid publisher so that other authors can benefit.

-- Joanna Penn The reality is, whether you're going to DIY your book, work with freelancers to do the parts you don't know how to do, work with a hybrid publisher, -LSB-...]

Whatever your level and whether you're traditionally published, in partnership with a hybrid publisher, or have self - published your book through a service, the intention of this article is for you to gain understanding and actionable takeaways for marketing by optimizing your metadata for search engines.

And if you have a business or modest marketing platform you want to exploit with a book but don't want to do the required work to get a publisher or «go it alone,» consider doing business with a hybrid publisher.

I'm an Author Publisher I exclusively publish my own work (a self - published author or an author working with a hybrid publisher)

For writers who are contemplating a small press contract: In a column I wrote for Publishers Weekly, I discuss some of the questions to ask before you sign with a hybrid publisher.

Not exact matches

Grip Games, a privately owned developer and publisher of games for game consoles and high - end portable devices, together with True Axis Pty. Ltd and bitComposer Entertainment AG, announced today it will launch Jet Car Stunts, a racing / platformer hybrid game for the PS3, PSVita, PS4 and Xbox 360 as a downloadable game throughout North and South America, Europe and other territories this spring.

Hybrid publishers offer packages that include sales and distribution into local stores with the opportunity to scale up if sales and reviews justify doing so.

Founder Lauren Wise spends a ton of time researching the new methods of publishing, talking with CEOs of publishers that range from hybrid to traditional to electronic, and compiles a hand - picked list every year of the best companies for Midnight Publishing authors to work with.

I think it would be PURE GENIUS for someone with the money to do it, to set up something that represents a hybrid between self - publishing and traditional publishers.

More than half of authors who already were self - published, as well as hybrid authors, were hoping to publish with traditional publishers, at 53.5 percent and 57.8 percent, respectively.

I am one of those — a hybrid author who has used traditional publishers and self publishing — and the reasons others cite line up with my own,

Many are hybrid authors — they work with traditional publishers while also doing some indie work.

Many of them are hybrid — they work with traditional publishers on their current books, and they republish any books that have gone out of print as indie books.

I have other friends who take the hybrid route, publishing with both traditional publishers and as indie authors.

I'm a hybrid author, because I have some books still in print with traditional publishers, while all my current projects are in indie publishing.

I'd call myself «hybrid» these days — I'm working with an excellent independent publisher (who also genuinely does treat me as a business partner) as well self publishing.

The Hybrid Publishing Model: This new partnership model encompasses the best of both worlds: the curated selection of manuscripts by experienced publishers, production support, and distribution networks of the traditional model with the higher profit share and freedom that self - publishing provides.

So, many of the benefits for a hybrid author starting off with a publisher — the «higher respect, more review opportunities, and wider distribution in print or tricky markets» I mentioned — might not exist if said publisher is a digital - first publisher.

In comparing hybrid publishers with vanity presses, it's important to note that vanity presses are not selective in what they publish, nor are they set up to be.

Hybrid authors get the benefit of a publisher brand, which might come with higher respect, more review opportunities, and wider distribution in print or tricky markets like libraries, etc..

She did become my confidante and mentor, and when the timing was right, I was thrilled that she jumped at the chance to present me to Lisa Hagan, literary agent, who signed me on the spot (this was after I self - published my first three books, developed a large author platform, sexual abuse advocacy, signed with a (now - defunct) hybrid publisher, wrote another book, directed an imprint, and have two works in progress and another series in the hopper).

While hybrid authors coming from New York - style traditional publishers did have the highest income, the self - published - only authors — with no publisher name to back them up — beat the digital - first hybrid authors income-wise.

In a session immediately following this panel, hybrid author Dana Beth Weinberg, who helped author the resulting report, said one thing publishers need to take away from this data is the need to rethink and restructure their contracts with authors, not just their tangible book contracts, but in a more social realm in terms of how they perceive of and treat their authors.

With the rise in popularity of the hybrid publisher and publishing consultants, however, the lines between legitimate and scam have become very blurry, and plenty of authors have felt the pinch of an unsatisfactory and expensive mistake.

Some authors who had been successful with traditionally published books, but who wanted to branch out into a different genre, went «hybrid» — still doing some books with their traditional publishers but also doing some «indie» publishing of their own.

But there days there are a whole bunch of small presses or hybrid publishers that you may feel more comfortable with, but are actually vanity presses that overcharge authors and deliver sub-standard services.

The 5.5 and 10.8 - inch devices are marketed as tablet / e-reader hybrids, with Sharp having inked deals with Japanese publishers to offer books and newspapers to buyers in its home market.

(And, as an aside, don't confuse «hybrid publisher» with «hybrid author.»

However, it's still possible for a hybrid publisher to have a sales team and sell to accounts even with just a print - on - demand edition available.

I love the fact that there are so many options today: traditional deals with big publishers, deals with small presses, pure indie publishing, and hybrid options.

If the hybrid publisher does not empower you the author to set and meet your own publication date, there's something wrong with that picture.

You might find yourself at a table with an agent, editor, publisher, a new author, a seeking - to - be author, and multi-published novelists / hybrids.

A hybrid author self - publishes as well as working with a traditional publisher.

-LSB-...] be very careful of signing with agents who have a track record of sales to hybrid publishers, publishing services, and other small outfits that almost no one has heard of.

One of the most recent publishers to announce its partnership with hybrid authors is New York - based ebook publisher Diversion Books, whose roots in the traditional publishing industry have opened the doors for a wider transition in digital - only publication.

Just as the industry has embraced hybrid authors and hybrid publishers, companies like Paper Lantern Lit and its resulting publishing arm The Studio, co-founded by Lexa Hillyer and bestselling author Lauren Oliver, have emerged to work with these authors in a one - on - one capacity.

All self - publishers (and, no, I do not include hybrid writers with proved reputations in traditional publishing in that condemnation) do is push readers back to familiar territory because book discovery is too exhausting and depressing.

If Amazon could encourage hybrid authors to ditch their publisher, sign up with them and Amazon will promote the hell out of them online and in their Amazon Books retail stores, suddenly Amazon Publishing is more attractive.

I «grew up» in the traditional world and am still a hybrid author with a couple books still with a traditional publisher.

But with hybrid models, the function of the pre-publishing support isn't so much to provide the author with the funds to develop the book, but to demonstrate the interest of a readership to a traditional publisher.

Sunacumen Press Inc. is a hybrid publisher based in Palm Springs, CA, with two imprints — Sunacumen and Sunmemoir.

She also does blog critiques and author consulting for hybrid authors (who publish with traditional publishers and independent publishing) and indie authors.

Should you research those «hybrid» publishers, who publish your book but want you to invest upfront and share profits with them?

And what about those «hybrid» publishers, who publish your book but want you to invest upfront and share profits with them?