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They are the voices lost in the muddled middle who spend five years writing a novel and seek the same opportunity for survival as traditionally published authors.
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Despite being placed 14th in the UK Kindle chart of all authors over the past five years – above many of my favourite authors – some festival organisers still believe I don't have as much to say about writing and selling books as a traditionally published author, regardless of their popularity.
I do not earn much as a traditionally published author but I earn more than I did as a self-publisher.
If independent authors want to write books that will be taken seriously, they need to present themselves with the same marked quality as the traditionally published books out there.
Since then many hundreds of authors have gone from self-published to traditionally published.
Many self-published books are not print-on-demand, and many traditionally published books are flipped to POD status, oftentimes as soon as a year following publication.
And I still read some traditionally published works such as John Coates' "The Hour between Dog and Wolf", about the latest research in neuroscience.
Ask your publisher, if you're traditionally published, what your BISACs are.
It's probably safe to assume that the vast majority of Kindle Direct titles aren't seeing Howey- or Weir-level success — but then, most traditionally published authors aren't selling as many copies as Stephen King or J.K. Rowling.
"As authors are becoming more established, they get followings, just like mainstream authors, so the self-published market is becoming more like the traditionally published market," he said.
There are many traditionally published authors who have hated the cover their publisher's decided on.
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