Sentences with phrase «as debut author»

As a debut author (August 1st) getting ready to dive into the fray, I've been lurking around the book blogger community, trying to get to know the players, find sites that are a match for the book I've written, etc. and what has amazed me is the WORK these people put into what they do as a hobby / for fun.

As a debut author, one of the hardest things about marketing your book is drumming up interest pre-release.

It really breaks my heart because this author not only has shot himself in the foot for this book, but he's come onto the scene as a debut author, which is one of the only aspects of publishing that still has any marketing oomph.

I don't want to devalue my work, but as a debut author, I also don't want to price myself out of the market.

As a debut author, I welcome any feedback!

I was too as a debut author!

Derek, in his gentle and knowledgable way, tried to talk me out of displaying the book award badge, (at least not so prominantly) but I, as a debut author in need of affirmation of the quality of my novel, let ego get in the way and I had him put it on the cover anyway.

It's hard to imagine Twain as a debut author, age 34, looking like a young game show host with a black coiffure and a bed skirt attached to his lip.

Additionally, Unbound functions as a traditional publisher once the crowdfunding phase is over — having marketing and editorial support from experienced industry professionals is a huge advantage as a debut author.

Similarly, landing on the LibraryReads list as a debut author is an accomplishment, but it only has meaning if other library staff read and recommend the titles.

As debut author Amy Gentry shares here, women have been writing killer mysteries for a long, long time.

Just keep in mind that going too high as a debut author might mean fewer people take a chance on you.

As a debut author I never realized how difficult the marketing aspects of the industry are.

«As a debut author it was an abrupt dose of reality to learn that writing was the easy part.

As a debut author I recommend this site to anyone who wants to get their book out there and noticed.»

As a debut author launching my first novel in less than a month, this is very timely and helpful.

Plus, I've got word - of - mouth advice from other authors (including established authors like Liane Moriarty, Charlotte Wood, Michael Robotham, and Favel Parrett, as well as debut authors, who are still juggling writing, publicity, family, friends and, often, fulltime jobs) on how they do it.

I work with both indie and traditionally published authors, both NYT and USA Today best sellers as well as debut authors, and provide a full editing team while providing the convenience of a single point of contact.

Not exact matches

Since its debut in 1867 as America's first fashion magazine, the pages of Harper's Bazaar have been home to talent, such as the founding editor, author and translator Mary Louise Booth, as well as:

Author David Montrose wrote his debut book to appeal to both Sugar Daddies and Sugar Babies, as well anyone who is contemplating or currently in an alternative relationship.

Beginning his career as an author and responsible for the source material of Danny Boyle's The Beach in 2000, Alex Garland then directly ventured into the film industry by doing screenplay's - again with Boyle on 28 Days Later and Sunshine - before he eventually took the reigns himself by making his directorial debut with the magnificent science fiction film Ex Machina in 2014.

Horror author Barker made an auspicious debut as a director with this bloody shocker about a violent con artist who cheats death in gruesome fashion.

This isn't the first time that author Ian Fleming's debut Bond novel, «Casino Royale», has been made into a film, although it's the first official one, as the previous incarnations were a TV episode (of the mid-1950s show «Climax!»)

Welsh is on board as a producer, with Brit helmer and friend Jon S. Baird behind the camera, who had impressed the author with his debut feature film.

Director Wes Ball's feature film debut delivered the first in author James Dashner's trilogy (he wrote two prequels as well) with an earnest, no - nonsense commitment to the protagonist's waking nightmare.

Laura Bispuri's debut feature, Sworn Virgin, adapts a novel by Albanian author Elvira Dones, into a movie that's simultaneously emotionally layered and simple as a flat horizon.

Much like the late author, Robinson first drew acclaim with a black comedy that he scripted and directed entitled «Withnail and I.» After the debut, he became tired of the restrictive practices in Hollywood, such as producers either refusing to fund his works or drastically altering them, eventually succumbing to heavy drinking and falling into a heavy depression, becoming «unavailable by choice.»

«As a first time author, I was in need of developmental editing, copy - editing, and proofreading for my debut novel, Death by DNA.

Recently, our author Sara Schaff's debut short fiction collection Say Something Nice About Me was included as a finalist for the Council of Literary Magazines and Presses Firecracker Awards.

As you'll recall, our lead last week — London Author Fair's Debut: Change Agents — was triggered by the newly inaugurated London Author Fair produced by Gareth Howard and Hayley Radford of Authoright at Covent Garden's Hospital Club.

The self - publishing sphere has become something of what the farm league is to major league baseball, but the odds of that success can be lower than were an author to try and approach a literary agent as an author attempting to make their major debut in trade publishing.

Clare Mackintosh's debut novel, I Let You Go, is inspired by an event — a hit - and - run accident — that happened early in the author's career as a police officer.

Still, the author's writing possesses the same intimate, lyrical power as his haunting debut, which was written after his experience serving in Iraq with the U.S. Army.

Clare Vanderpool won the 2011 Newbery Medal for her novel Moon Over Manifest — a surprise to a lot of readers, as Vanderpool was a debut author.

Just as exciting has been our completely unrelated relationship with some exciting debut authors.

Author David Morrell, who has been called «the father of the modern action novel,» may be best known as the creator of Rambo, the scarred American soldier who first appeared in Morrell's debut, First Blood.

Whaley's Where Things Come Back might just be the most acclaimed YA novel that was published in 2011: It won the 2012 Printz Award, the 2012 William C. Morris Debut Fiction Award and Whaley was the first - ever YA author to be selected as a «Top 5 Under 35 Author» by the National Book Foundauthor to be selected as a «Top 5 Under 35 Author» by the National Book FoundAuthor» by the National Book Foundation.

«The English - language debut of best - selling Korean author J.M. Lee, The Investigation, is the first - person tale of Watanabe Yuichi, who reluctantly served as a prison guard in Japan during WWII: «The war ended on 15 August 1945.

Mashable wrote that Booktrack «debuted as an iOS app focused on professional authors like Salman Rushdie; a total of 40 titles sold more than 250,000 downloads,» but then pivoted in 2013 to become a platform where «writers can embed songs from a catalogue of 20,000 licensed audio files, adding mood music, ambient audio and sound effects to play in tune with story lines, paced to a user's reading speed.»

As we get closer and closer to the tipping point and less books are bought through physical places where debut authors find the bulk of their readers is going to change.

Third, you share a wealth of applicable information for a person who's debuting this spring as a self - published author (or even one who's not, but I'm the former, and, as you wrote — although not in these words — I care about me).

Give this Indie debut a try as it's one of those that promises a talented author to watch for and who hopefully will continue to enthrall his readers for a long, long time.»

A Twenty - Five - Question Interview Published as a Five Part Series Hosted by MM Finck Anonymously Answered By Agented Authors * with Varying Publishing Career Durations and Successes from Debut to Bestselling and Represented by Multiple Literary Agencies of Varying Sizes QUESTION ONE Why did you choose the traditional publishing track?

Last year's winners were an interesting and diverse selection, a mix of debut novels and ones from authors with as many as three previous novels.

I'm hosting an AMA («ask me anything») in the r / Fantasy forum as an independent author who debuted my first novel this year.

You can also go cruise on Google for other «best of 2015» fiction lists, such as those from or by Small Presses, Independent Publishers, more Indie / Self - Pubbed authors, Debuts, Flash Fiction, and on and on.

But, after she left the podium (to widespread applause), what likely lingered in many minds is the candid picture she'd painted of one of publishing's growing digital nightmares: debut authors may be understanding about the slow process to market and put up with it, said Smart, «but as they build reader communities around them they will get really, really pissed off and go and self - publish.»

And first a disclaimer: My debut will be 9.99 in ebook form (something I have no control over as the author) so that does color my perspective a bit.

Publishers aren't printing as many new books, especially from debut authors, and agents aren't able to sell as many new books or authors.

Releasing both hardback and paperback at the same time or near each other probably makes sense, as do much lower eBook prices, especially for debut authors.