As an independent author winning a book award increases your credibility, improves your ability to market your books or series, and gives you more solid visibility all over the current book market.
Not exact matches
Star professors may have larger networks of collaborators not just,
as the
authors suggest, because they have more students and postdocs than lower - ranked competitors, but because more of those students and postdocs
win academic jobs that permit them to participate in collaborations
as independent investigators; the rest just disappear from academe.
He's done work for best - seller David Farland, including the multi-award
winning novel, Nightingale, Dean Lorey, lead writer of Arrested Development, best - seller, James Artimus Owen, and numerous Writers of the Future
authors and winners,
as well
as many top - notch
independents.
As a very small
independent book publisher sometimes it seems the odds of success for indie
authors are only slightly better than
winning the lottery, despite great content.
The panel of judges who decided upon the
winning book included actress and literacy campaigner, Lily Cole; best - selling
author Rachel Abbott; Irish
author, former literary agent and founder of The Alliance of
Independent Authors, Orna Ross; the Metro's Books Editor Claire Allfree;
as well
as members of the Amazon Books team - UK Head of Kindle Singles and Chair of Judges, Andrew Rosenheim; UK Kindle Content Director, Amy Worth; and UK Editorial Director for Amazon Publishing, Emilie Marneur.
Orna Ross is an award -
winning author - publisher, advocate for
independent authors and other creative entrepreneurs and, as Director of the Alliance of Independent Authors, «one of the 100 most influential people in publishing» (The B
independent authors and other creative entrepreneurs and, as Director of the Alliance of Independent Authors, «one of the 100 most influential people in publishing» (The Books
authors and other creative entrepreneurs and,
as Director of the Alliance of
Independent Authors, «one of the 100 most influential people in publishing» (The B
Independent Authors, «one of the 100 most influential people in publishing» (The Books
Authors, «one of the 100 most influential people in publishing» (The Bookseller).
John Amodeo, Ph.D., MFT, is
author of Dancing with Fire: A Mindful Way to Loving Relationships, which
won the Spirituality and Practice Award
as one of the best spiritual books of 2013,
as well
as the 2014 Silver
Independent Publisher Book Award in the relationship category.