Sentences with phrase «writers and publishers want»

Many writers and publishers want to focus on getting their work out there and making sure it's best quality possible.

Perhaps 2015 becomes the year where the focus shifts to what readers want, rather than what writers and publishers want.

Not exact matches

Title: Guerrilla Marketing to Heal the World: Combining Principles and Profit to Create the World We Want Authors: Jay Conrad Levinson (1933 — 2013), Shel Horowitz Contributing writers: Cynthia Kersey (Unstoppable), Frances Moore Lappé (Diet for a Small Planet), Ken McArthur (The Impact Factor), Yanik Silver (Evolved Enterprise) Publisher: Morgan James Pub date: April 19, 2016 • Price: $ 24.95 ISBN: 978 -1-63047-658-8 (paperback); 978 -1-63047-659-5 (eBook)

Summary: Title: Guerrilla Marketing to Heal the World: Combining Principles and Profit to Create the World We Want Authors: Jay Conrad Levinson, Shel Horowitz Contributing writers: Cynthia Kersey, Frances Moore Lappé, Ken McArthur, Yanik Silver Publisher: Morgan James Pub date: April 19, 2016 ISBN: 978 -1-63047-658-8 (paperback); 978 -1-63047-659-5 (eBook) Price: $ 24.95 Contact: Shel Horowitz, 413-586-2388, or via email

The indie writers who are now wanting to go with a traditional publisher because — duh — they will get this huge advance and will be sent on tours to sign their books and will soon be playing poker with other best selling authors ala Castle.

Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware I often receive questions from writers who are looking to hire an independent editor to polish their manuscripts, either for self - publication or for submission to agents and publishers, and want to know w... -LSB-...]

(Besides fewer dollars per sale, a traditional book has a literal shelf life; once your publisher wants to give that shelf space to their next writer, most of your book's trad - published benefits are * dead * unless you get famous enough to re-impress them, and / or you understand how to get your rights back.

If you want to learn about writing, if you want to meet writers and agents and publishers and have a great time, this is the conference for you.

She had read in Writer's Digest that publishers want authors to have a minimum of 20,000 monthly blog page views, 5,000 newsletter subscribers, and 5,000 Twitter followers.

-- Traditional publishers believe that writers are a dime - a-dozen and the publishers don't even want to bother with the writer's manuscripts.

I did want to provide a networking opportunity for writers and publishers, but I also wanted to create an opportunity for readers to meet authors they might have read as well as discover new authors.

It's the rare writer who can write the same story over and over as traditional publishers want them to do.

Yes, I know that all you writers want to concentrate on your craft and leave marketing to your publishers.

But despite your arrogant demands writers will still put their work out there just as publishers will still make money off named authors and the readers will be the ones that decide what they want to read.

I'm going for the trade publisher for two main reasons — I want to be a writer, not a publisher; and I don't want to spend my money — I'd rather they spent theirs.

And ALL publishers want to find them, because they will make money along with the writers.

For some strange reason, smart writer after smart writer seems intent on wanting and fighting to give away ownership percentages in their work, both with agents, with traditional publishers, with small presses, and with indie publishing «helpers.»

So no matter the obstacles, pursuing an agent and publisher will always be the path some writers want to take.

My two favorites are Writer's Digest Guide to Literary Agents (the 2016 issue is now available) and Jeff Herman's Guide to Book Publishers, Editors and Literary Agents: Who They Are, What They Want, How to Win Them Over.

My method of publication: Writer wants a career in writing publishes books independently and hopes to attract enough sales or fans so a traditional publisher shows interest and offers a deal.

Publishers, writers, and readers are all ripe to be thrown under the bus when Amazon goes scrambling for what it wants.

But what I suggest to any of my clients or writers I am talking to who want to go the traditional route is to do both: self - publish and try and get a traditional publisher.

It means stepping into the identity of the pro writer you want to be and treating your book with the same care and professionalism that you'd get with a traditional publisher.

If you want to be a writer and not a publisher, be a writer!

The truth is, writers and bloggers don't need publishers if they want to produce a book.

Ah yes, the business part of the writing career — planning, placement (with the right publisher), marketing, understanding all the aspects which support and sustain authors — these are daunting when all most writers want to do is write!

I still do, because in my opinion, the best writer is a writer who has choices, who can move into a future and write what he or she wants, and sell it either directly to readers or to a publisher.

Makes me want to go back into publishing as a publisher and owner of a publishing company publishing other writer's work, since the profit margins are so huge for publishers thanks to the weakness and stupidity of writers.

As an author and Kindle self - publisher, I want writers to make money.

This is a big drawback, and I agree completely with the many writers who want to see Amazon change this policy — a policy which, btw, they are NOT apply to traditional publishers, only to indie writers.

What publishers want to see in an author website is often the same as what your fans and readers want: a site that conveys the theme, mood, and atmosphere of the books — and the personality and individualism of the writer — offers evergreen content, and presents easy ways in which both fans and professionals can contact, engage, and quickly connect.

If a writer wanted to get their book into bookstores where readers discover and purchase books, they needed a traditional publishing deal because publishers controlled access to retail distribution

But publishers have a big sea of writers to draw from, and someone needs to serve as your swim instructor, telling you who are the sharks and who are the dolphins, and helping you to determine which you want to swim with.

Since I have been through the process (fire) of publishing a book, I want to reach out to writers working on a manuscript, and encourage them to push through the writers block, accept the enormous amount of time it will take you to work with an editor to make your manuscript the best it can be, and the gigantic amount of time it will take you to research, submit and wait to hear, if you ever do, from the publishers, small presses, and literary agents who received your submission.

Karen Hodges Miller offers her 25 - plus years of experience as writer, editor and publisher to entrepreneurial authors who want to realize that dream.

She adds, «Success for an African writer... depends on the West, [and Western publishers want] savage entertainment: stories about ethnic cleansing, child soldiers, human trafficking... the stereotypes Africans abhor.»

While still taking submissions from writers and working under the traditional model of being a publisher, Red Adept also uses its skilled in - house resources to offers solutions to authors who go into the process knowing that they want to self - publish.

Simply put, I want traditional publishers to respect me as a writer and supplier of their product.

Believe that other writers and other readers and other publishers want you to make it, that in many cases, they actually want to help you make it.

Today's post is an excerpt from The Author Training Manual: Develop Marketable Ideas, Craft Books That Sell, Become the Author Publishers Want, and Self - Publish Effectively [6](Writer's Digest Books, March 2014) by Nina Amir.

-- If you want to be a writer or an author, — If you intend to submit manuscripts to agents and / or publishers, — If you intend to self - publish a book, the answer is still the same.

Crucially, the publisher will want to know whether a writer can «pull it off» and deliver a book that is as good as a successful proposal promises.

Today, traditional publishers are making large profits and print books are still being produced (no matter how much some writers wanted that to stop).

There were already countless writer sites and communities, and I'd belonged to a number of them, but I'd yet to find one that was both entirely supportive of self - publishers and provided all the information and resources self - publishers want and need.

The very best books from the very best writers get published; books get sold; and writers, agents, editors, publishers, etc. get what they want: money.

At first, you came to the San Francisco Writers Conference to learn the craft of writing, to hear famous writers describe how they became famous, to learn the secrets of how to create a winning book proposal, to become enlightened by publishers about what they want and, most of all, to pitch literary agents, those elusive creatures who seem always to be heading the other dirWriters Conference to learn the craft of writing, to hear famous writers describe how they became famous, to learn the secrets of how to create a winning book proposal, to become enlightened by publishers about what they want and, most of all, to pitch literary agents, those elusive creatures who seem always to be heading the other dirwriters describe how they became famous, to learn the secrets of how to create a winning book proposal, to become enlightened by publishers about what they want and, most of all, to pitch literary agents, those elusive creatures who seem always to be heading the other direction.

But we found it useful in ALLi to make a distinction between the person who self - publishes a book for family or friends or for personal expression and who doesn't really expect to sell a lot of books, and the person who wants to make this their career, who wants to actually become a full - time working writer and publisher.

Writers, who in the past were afraid to speak out against publishing nonsense like this because they didn't want to be blacklisted, are now actively pointing out how asinine publishers, and authors, are acting.

They have an idea or manuscript they have passed around to various agents and publishers with no luck; they may just want to print a few copies of, say, a memoir for family members; they want to use it in their business as a type of calling card; or they actually want to sell a lot of books and make their living as writers.

Nina Amir, author of the bestselling How to Blog a Book: Write, Publish, and Promote Your Work One Post at a Time (Writers Digest Books) and The Author Training Manual: Develop Marketable Ideas, Craft Books That Sell, Become the Author Publishers Want, and Self - Publish Effectively (Writers Digest Books), transforms writers into inspired, successful authors, authorpreneurs and blogprWriters Digest Books) and The Author Training Manual: Develop Marketable Ideas, Craft Books That Sell, Become the Author Publishers Want, and Self - Publish Effectively (Writers Digest Books), transforms writers into inspired, successful authors, authorpreneurs and blogprWriters Digest Books), transforms writers into inspired, successful authors, authorpreneurs and blogprwriters into inspired, successful authors, authorpreneurs and blogpreneurs.