Sentences with phrase «breakout author of»

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And that visceral response is what separates viral breakouts from busts, according to Jonah Berger, marketing professor at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and author of Contagious: Why Things Catch On.

Like Sandberg's breakout work, which has been criticized for minimizing the barriers women in the workforce face — especially women of races, classes and sexualities that differ from its wealthy, white, cis author — the tips provided do seem to be geared towards «employable,» educated women.

He is the author of The Career Novelist (1996), Writing the Breakout Novel (2001), Writing the Breakout Novel Workbook (2004) and The Fire in Fiction (2009)-- as well as numerous novels — and a past president of the Association of Authors» Representatives, Inc..

If I do all of the above, am I now considered a bestselling breakout hybrid highly reviewed author?

Read one of the biggest breakout indie authors of 2016.

Neither the Podiobook nor the Kindle book that resulted in the deals announced last week were breakout hits, neither was selling / downloading hundreds of copies a week or anything, but in the case of the Podiobook readers» enthusiasm tipped the scales and in the case of the Kindle book the author's extensive platform and media coverage did the trick.

A full range of new works and authors make it into print, but breakout books for smaller publishers are now rare.

Books sold into bookstores is becoming something only reserved for the brand name authors or big, breakout books that are getting a lot of buzz.

Breakout authors such as John Locke and Amanda Hocking blazed a trail by writing a handful of books and listing them for 99 cents (Amanda's books range from free to $ 2.99, John tends to stick to 99 cents).

But without a major breakout title to line up for this holiday season, now is the time that indies — both publishers and authors — can catch the eyes of some consumers who are determined to feed their reading habits this month.

Peter Heller, the celebrated author of the breakout best seller The Dog Stars, returns with an achingly beautiful, wildly suspenseful second novel about an artist trying to outrun his past.

He recently spoke to Reedsy about the breakout stars of the self - publishing world and what indie authors can do to stand out from the crowd.

She was mentioned in Forbes alongside E. L. James as one of the breakout independent authors to dominate the bestselling lists.

For a detailed breakout of how authors spent their advertising budgets, you'll want to have a look at page 25 of the guide.

As I pondered my discovery that profiles of breakout authors and Kindle marketing articles were of no help, I turned to a different approach.

He is the author of The Career Novelist (1996), Writing the Breakout Novel (2001), Writing the Breakout Novel Workbook (2004) and The Fire in Fiction (2009), Writing 21st Century Fiction (2012) and The Emotional Craft of Fiction (2016).

The author of such critically acclaimed books as Aquamarine and Lucky in the Corner, Carol Anshaw returns with a sure - to - be breakout novel, Carry the One.

With the overnight success of series like The Twilight Saga and the Hunger Games trilogy, coupled with indie author breakout stars like Amanda Hocking, the sales channels quickly filled up with a glut of traditionally published and self - published YA content (bonus points if there was a vampire involved).

It is a lush paradise of books written by established authors or breakout superstars.

Not all of us can follow an author from the very beginning — sometimes it takes a breakout with book # 2 to prove an author's mettle.

According to our data, 2 of the top 7 highest - earning Big - Five debut authors from the last 5 years were E. L. James and Colleen Hoover, both of whom were self - published breakouts before a traditional publisher jumped aboard.

Whatever the case may be, author and literary agent Donald Maass can show you how to take your prose to the next level and write a breakout novel — one that rises out of obscurity and hits the best - seller lists.

«Kindle Owners» Lending Library continues to grow rapidly — with over 100,000 titles, customers can choose to borrow a variety of breakout, best - selling titles for free, including «Nobody» by Creston Mapes, «The Walk» by Lee Goldberg and «Abducted» by Theresa Ragan, as well as Kindle Singles from best - selling authors Andy Borowitz, Karin Slaughter and Mishka Shubaly,» said Russ Grandinetti, Vice President of Kindle Content.

BookExpo America's preshow event, uPublishU, kicked off what will become a week of breakout sessions, author and expert panels, and publishing industry networking.

I haven't made the news as one of those «exceptional» breakout indie authors.

Self - Publishing — Let's be honest, most authors, unless you are one of the breakout stars, have day jobs.

My breakout novel, Fatal Exchange, is part of an awesome action / adventure bundle with some top notch authors at StoryBundle.

Given the very slow publishing schedules in mainstream publishing and the fact that there is a limit to how many books a publisher wants from any given midlist author in a year, the money odds for «most» of us who are not famous or breakout bestsellers... is in the indie side of things, because we can publish on a faster timetable, while still keeping the quality up.

Some of the teachers include: «Writing the Breakout Novel» author / agent Donald Maass, Publisher and editor in chief of G.P. Putnam Neil Nyren, Patterson co-author Andrew Gross, New York Times best sellers: Lee Child, Eric Van Lustbader, Heather Graham, Steve Berry, James Rollins, David Morrell, Joseph Finder, Gayle Lynds, David Hewson, Jon Land and M.J. Rose.

President of Donald Maass Literary Agency in New York, author of Writing the Breakout Novel, Writing 21st Century Fiction and other craft books for novelists.

The occasional story of breakout success by a first - time author (e.g., moi) often engenders fantasies of instant bestsellerdom among aspiring authors.

LO: I firmly believe that workshops can benefit writers at all stages of their writing careers, though one of the reasons I created the Breakout Novel workshops with Don was that I didn't see much out there for intermediate and advanced writers and very little for published mid-list authors who wanted to push beyond their current capabilities.

Notable and bestselling authors published under Ms. McGuire's direction include Lee Child, Daniel Coyle, Rocco DiSpirito, Janet Evanovich, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, Emily Giffin, Ashley Judd, Jonathan Kellerman, Dean Koontz, Debbie Macomber, Jodi Picoult, Leah Remini, Jenny Sanford, and Danielle Steel, and her group made breakout bestsellers of sophisticated popular fiction titles such as LOVING FRANK by Nancy Horan, THE PARIS WIFE by Paula McLain, DEFENDING JACOB by William Landay, and THE LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS by Vanessa Diffenbaugof sophisticated popular fiction titles such as LOVING FRANK by Nancy Horan, THE PARIS WIFE by Paula McLain, DEFENDING JACOB by William Landay, and THE LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS by Vanessa DiffenbaugOF FLOWERS by Vanessa Diffenbaugh.

I've adapted my formula from the great Donald Maass, who's an agent and the author of many wonderful books, putting The Fire In Fiction, The Career Novelist, Writing a Breakout Novel are some of the best - known titles that he's written.

So, you are the author of The Breakout Novelist.

Many of the authors who complain about it being impossible to breakout, are also usually not doing any sort of marketing to help them to breakout.

Breakout Books is similar to the concept of Amazon's promotion that runs in a limited period of time to boost the discoverability of the book and author.

He is the author of The Career Novelist (1996), Writing the Breakout Novel (2001), Writing the Breakout Novel Workbook (2004), The Fire in Fiction (2009), The Breakout Novelist (2011) and Writing 21st Century Fiction (2012).

Robin Antalek is the author of the USA TODAY bestselling The Summer We Fell Apart (HarperCollins 2010) chosen as a Target Breakout Book and The Grown - Ups (William Morrow 2015), a Sutter Home Book of the Month Club selection.

New York City About Blog President of Donald Maass Literary Agency in New York, author of Writing the Breakout Novel, Writing 21st Century Fiction and other craft books for novelists.