Part #3 of our chat with Claire Siemaszkiewicz from Totally Entwined Publishing. LUV: What would you like an author to know about publishing with Totally Entwined. How do you support authors? Are you looking for new voices? Do you accept unagented authors? Do you pay an advance and royalties? Claire: We run what we call an ‘agency model’. By that, what I mean is that we fulfill the role that an agent would usually provide to an author, so they don’t need to be registered with an agency to be able to submit manuscripts to us. We have a submissions section on our website (https://totallyentwinedgroup.com/submissions/) and authors can send their work straight to our editorial team for consideration. We love finding new and exciting voices so new-to-romance authors and experienced/seasoned authors are welcome. We pay advances on international rights, gaming and app deals. Our general contract offers 40% eBook, 30% audio and 10% POD royalties. We support our authors from the moment their books are contracted. Our authors all have access to their own author portal, where we communicate with them through every step of their publishing journey. We also have a Marketing Academy with information and videos to help them with marketing and promoting their books. On top of that, we have a full marketing strategy with a 90-day release strategy that we run for every book we release. Some of our authors have been with us since the first year we launched, and we’ve stayed the course and stayed true to our high standards during some very difficult times for indie publishers, and I think that shows that we’ve built up a solid and respected reputation in the industry. We’re always looking for new opportunities for our authors and their books, and that can be anything from finding new markets for their books to international rights deals and more. Last year we launched an audio and translation division, and we’re currently working on putting more than 750 of our books into audio and translating them into multiple languages. We’re also working on a self-publishing platform for indie authors which we plan to launch this year. The landscape of publishing is constantly evolving and now more than ever, authors have the ability to take control of their own publishing journeys. Self-publishing is playing an increasingly important role as more authors are moving in that direction. But everyone knows just how much work goes into getting a book to market and most authors don’t want to spend their valuable time doing ‘everything else’ that goes with publishing. Fictionwide is an all-in-one solution and provides an environment where authors can have the best publishing career by empowering them to take control of their own publishing journey. The platform will offer everything an author needs to self-publish their books. Fictionwide will offer three simple plans to choose from. All managed from within the Author Portal. Distribution is just 10% service fee. There isn’t anything like this in the market and we’re excited to offer something unique to authors. Authors interested in finding out more can go here: https://totallyentwinedgroup.com/fictionwide/

Posted by LUV Team at 2022-08-03 19:00:09 UTC