Sentences with phrase «without agents or publishers»

Finally, on a pure process level, I am wary of a world without agents or publishers: that would mean that you have large booksellers, who have substantial market power, dealing with authors directly, the vast majority of whom do not have any substantial market power, and where there are antitrust issues that may arise from collective action.

For writers without an agent or publisher, so - called «indie» writers, Smith Publicity can be a very effective way to get their names into the public arena.

Not exact matches

As we've written a number of times at GigaOM, the traditional book - publishing business continues to be disrupted, with some self - published authors such as Amanda Hocking making millions of dollars without using a traditional agent or publisher, by selling their own books through Amazon's (s amzn) Kindle platform.

* Top literary agents have the ability to navigate any challenges that come up during the pre-publication, publication, or post-publication process without losing their cool or damaging relationships: i.e. editors that are difficult, fired, laid - off, or decide to retire; bad book cover designers; your book being cut from the publisher's list before it's even published; bad reviews or publicity; poor book sales; changes in the industry or marketplace; etc..

Or, you can pitch your first book (without an agent) to smaller but legitimate publishers with national distribution who will let you do that.

When you send your manuscript into a publishers or literary agent, they can reject you in an instant without any reason or feedback.

But if you can't find an agent to represent you, or if your book isn't appropriate for the Big Five, you'll quickly run into the following quandary: How do you evaluate the merits or ability of a small publisher without an agent or other publishing professional to guide you?

On one hand, many agents these days urge their clients to hire an outside publicist no matter who their publisher is, claiming that without robust PR and promotion no book (or author) has a future.

«And it seems to me that both NaNoWriMo and the digital publishing industry have a lot of common ground there, in that they are about empowering individuals to be creative, whether that means writing a novel or publishing that novel without going through the arduous process of finding an agent and finding a publisher.»

«Big Pub basically runs its own monopoly over writers,» a commenter on a New York Times article retorted, and I received an email about the Amazon - Hachette clash in which the writer complained of «the impossibility of a non-NYC writer just getting his foot in the door without sleeping with professors, visiting authors, publishers; without an M.F.A.; or without publications in major magazines (100 percent of which are supplied by agents).

Independent authors — without agents, publishing deals, or marketing dollars — face radically different pricing concerns than traditional publishers and publishing startups like Byliner and The Domino Project.

I think publishers are increasingly open to considering books that have proven themselves, albeit in a fairly limited market, and that's especially true today, since self publishing has become so much easier, and more writers are taking that route without even attempting to find an agent or publisher first.

But now individuals are taking the initiative and writing, publishing, and marketing their own books without the need for an agent or publisher to give them a chance.

While he advocates that publishers devote more resources to «author care» functions (something I encouraged in a 2012 industry talk), Shatzkin also discusses the potential for authors to collaborate amongst themselves to improve their situation, without the involvement of agents or publishers.

At that point my options were to a) submit to the other big publisher that would accept submissions without an agent (except the wait for a response was 9 - 12 months); b) submit to agents in the hope one of them liked the manuscript enough to then jump through the hoops for publishers, or c) self - publish.

Much of the work I do is for major Canadian publishers and literary agents, but I also coach individual writers (with or without agents) struggling with one or more aspects of a work - in - progress.

And we'll show you how to do so without agents, contracts, or publishers.

As publishers and agents have started to realize with exasperation today, a number of titles in the Kindle Lending Library program — including some of the bestselling, prominently - promoted titles on the program's home page — are part of this new initiative without the consent or affirmative participation of the publishers and rightsholders.

The truth is that no agent or publisher wants to work with a clueless aspirant, and no self - published title will make it without an understanding of Read more about More reasons novelists should be reading -LSB-...]

Self - Publishing offers authors an opportunity to become published without the need of having to go through a storybook agent or a traditional publisher.

Without the track record of a published author (sales data, fan base, etc), it will be difficult for you to find a publisher or an agent in Frankfurt.

Suddenly readers could buy self - published books directly from the online retailers without the need of a literary agent or publisher.