Most authors I know aim for 2000 words a day, seven days a week, until deadline.
Most authors know Smashwords as the world's largest distributor of indie ebooks to retailers and libraries, and this remains our primary business focus.
And, if we're — as
most authors know we should be — on community reading sites like Goodreads, we also have reviews or star ratings to put up there for yearly reading challenges, group work and to prove to somebody (if only ourselves) that we are indeed, active readers.
If you want a crash course on #book #publishing, set aside some time this weekend to watch the replays of four free webinars that will teach you way more than what
most authors know about book marketing, distribution, publicity, sales and many other topics related to publishing.
Most authors know that reviews help sell books.
Most authors know that a contract is needed, and many even know what terms to request.
Most authors I know seem to have a preference for Facebook.
Most authors I know write some consistent theme.
While
most authors I know think of slush as something to be avoided at all costs — a nightmarish wasteland policed by twenty - year - old interns — it's also where some of today's most interesting and successful writers got their start.
Most authors I know want to put the focus on the books, not themselves — unless they're nonfiction authors who are also thought leaders, speakers, or otherwise public figures.
Most authors I know use the feature to draw attention to their books by saying, «FREE with Kindle Unlimited» or something similar and not at a main sales platform.
Most authors I know who say their book was an Amazon best seller achieved that «status» through a giveaway.
Like
most authors I know, I work at other jobs in addition to writing fiction.
If you're like
most authors I know, you've wondered about how to best use Facebook.
I assume that
most authors know by now that typing in ALL CAPS is similar to screaming at someone in person.
Most authors know by now that Amazon traditionally discounted all e-book prices, having stated they believed that their cost shouldn't exceed $ 9.99.
And besides,
most authors I know who have done it themselves start their own independent publishing company that publishes only them.
Most authors know that approaching bloggers to review their new book is a great way to drum up some free publicity that gives their book a word - of - mouth popularity, but when it comes to approaching blog authors, their emails can be very hit and miss.
Most authors I know who've tried it say that running their own store is more trouble than it's worth.
(For those following along at home:
Most authors know what is meant when we say a book is «returnable,» but readers probably don't.
Most authors know about virtual book tours.
Most authors know this information and (should) already do this.
Tailor your web site to libraries
Most authors know they're supposed to have a web site.
I always tell authors that writing the book is the easy part, marketing the book is tough especially because
most authors I know are not marketers.
Most authors know that you can pitch your completed book to literary agents and publishers, but you can also pitch your book idea.
Not exact matches
«When it comes to establishing positive relationships with your coworkers, the
most important thing is to get to
know them first as individuals,» says Dorie Clark,
author of Reinventing You.
Media strategist Mack Collier,
author of Think Like a Rock Star, says what fans
most need to
know is what's on the menu and where the food trucks are.
No matter the rules, «the tremendous profit motive remains,» the
authors of the report wrote, «and many will skirt the law to profit from the
most vulnerable and economically distressed.»
You might
know Seth Godin as a sort of marketing legend, the
author of books such as Unleashing the Ideavirus, «the
most popular e-book ever published,» according to his marketing materials (I have no idea how I'd check that), and Purple Cow, «the best - selling marketing book of the decade» (similar caveat).
Unlike
most stock market
authors who automatically posit the stock market's prospects as
knowing only one way (up), Katsenelson provides a refreshingly honest and sometimes humorous approach to a less defined future.»
He is a nationally -
known investment expert, professional economist, university professor, and
author of more than 20 books, including his
most recent book, Investing in One Lesson.
all things were created by nothing with nothing and for nothing... that takes more faith than i have... i prefer to believe in Jesus Christ — the one and only who rose from the dead — the
most astounding historical fact ever recorded; Christians don't have all the answers but as the
author Don Miller noted: «I can
no more understand the complexity of God than the pancakes I made for breakfast can understand the complexity of me»
Most authors I read who deny the existence of God / aGod have at least the decency to admit there is no way to
know a-b-s-o-l-u-t-e-l-y.
Knowing that God is not the
author of my problems is one of the
most important revelations the Lord has ever given me.
If it
no longer betrays «the freshness and vividness of original composition,» at least it bears the marks of the hard age in which it arose, reflects the circumscribed outlook of its
author and first readers, and reveals
most clearly the paucity of the materials at the
author's disposal — especially for a presentation of Jesus» teaching.
Nobody other than Jesus hated religion more than Paul, once a conservative fundamentalist who became the
most liberal
author in
known history.
Or, you could take all that and trade it for the story of someone who slept around, did drugs, got divorced four times, murdered somebody, landed in jail, found Jesus, got paroled, and then became an internally
known Christian
author and conference speaker even though they lived
most of their life with no thought for Jesus.
Most biblical
authors assume that their readers want to
know how to obey God and follow Jesus better.
Of the seven evangelical Protestant
authors (e.g., Francis Schaeffer, Cornelius Van Til, Harold Lindsell, A. W. Tozier), it is fair to say that none of them would be named, and
most of them would not be
known, outside the world of evangelicalism.
What if I were a prestigious Oxford don, a professor of English literature, a well -
known author, and an authority on religion who repeatedly had some
most unusual, unbelievable experiences?
One hardly
knows which to be
most astonished by: the
author's almost prophetic prescience or his frivolity.
We
know that later material was in fact added after Mark 16:8, probably early in the second century, and for
most of Christian history this was accepted as coming from the original
author.
Lest we think that it is the fault of the editors (who choose these article titles and really should
know better) the
author breathlessly informs us of the sinister fact: «What
most people don't
know is that Steubenville is home to North America's largest evangelical teen gathering.»
Dr. Beverly Tatum,
author of Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria, refers to racism as smog in the air — while sometimes it's thick and visible,
most of the time you can't see it — but
no matter what, you can't avoid breathing it in.
Growing out of a series of books and essays Kekes has written over the last several years - on the nature of moral argument, the problem of evil, and the conflictual goods and evils that make up life as we
know it - Against Liberalism marks the
author's
most explicit broadside against liberal theory to date.
I thought Evangel readers would appreciate
knowing about my Christianity Today interview with James Davison Hunter, Professor of Religion, Culture, and Social Theory at the University of Virginia and
author of To Change the World: The Irony, Tragedy and Possibility of Christianity in the Late Modern World (Oxford, 2010), which promises to be the
most important book written on Christian cultural engagement in the last 50 years.
Of
most authors, however, a biographical essay suffices, and indeed requires more real intellect to write well than a lengthy recitation of every
known fact about its subject.
What do the following
authors all have in common — Jean Paul Sartre, Voltaire, Denis Diderot, Victor Hugo, Jean - Jacques Rousseau, Immanuel Kant, David Hume, René Descartes, Francis Bacon, John Milton, John Locke, and Blaise Pascal: (a) They are among the
most gifted writers the World has
known; (b) They concentrated on opposing dogma and opening the human mind and spirit to the wonders of free thought and intellectual freedom; (c) They were intimidated by the Catholic Church and put on the Church's list of prohibited
authors; or (d) All of the above.
If you don't say what's in it, your guests will
most likely not be able to
know why the grapes seem a little more adult than a jar of Welch's Print Rosemary Concord Grape Jam
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These «hows» and «whys» convey the
authors»
know - how, whether it's the key to the creamiest quiche (you'll be surprised), the
most efficient way to core an apple, or tips for ensuring a flaky crust.