It's for writers who want to write powerful, moving fiction and who are serious
about getting their work published.
Not exact matches
To be successful at marketing your product or business you not only have to
work to
get your content shared across the Internet, but you also have to reach out to journalists who can write
about you or even
publish your
work.
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According to Living Goods, clients may also be reluctant to buy drugs from other private providers because of the risk of
getting a counterfeit medicine.63 Living Goods sent us a study conducted at the midline of its RCT that claims that both availability of counterfeit drugs and drug prices decreased at private retailers in areas where CHPs
worked.64 According to the study,
about 37 % of private drug shops in the areas it studied sold fake ACT drugs, 65 and availabilty of fake ACTs was
about 50 % lower among non-Living Goods sellers in the areas where Living Goods
worked.66 Additional results on these potential effects will be made available when the full RCT is
published.
While this strategy
works just fine for large publishers that already have established brands and
get thousands of shares on any new article they
publish (such as Mashable or TechCrunch), a more pragmatic approach is needed for just
about every other business.It's true that
getting quality inbound links starts with great content on your client's website, but the missing link is
getting journalists, contributors, authors, and editors at quality publications to become aware of that content so that they can link to it when writing relevant stories / articles.
Someone obviously cared
about those results, because I never had any problem
getting my
work published, but, increasingly, it wasn't me.
Books have even been
published about this diet telling how it
works and actual stories of people trying this diet and
getting results.
Add to this the time it took to learn
about what it takes to actually
get an app like this
published, then it's taken
about a year of solid
work to take this concept to market.»
Jane Winterbotham,
Publishing Director at Walker Books said: «We're delighted to be
working with the National Literacy Trust and Facebook on the welcome return of Alex Rider — Anthony has long been acknowledged as key force in
getting reluctant readers excited
about stories and we hope that by teaming up with Facebook we'll engage many more potential readers both in schools and at home.»
Sure, you can send out review copies and make book trailers (not for $ 150 tho), but if an author's end goal is to attract more readers — or even a
publishing contract — they first need to
get their
work in front of people who can help them, and that's what the IRDAs are all
about.
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Now that finding and reading relevant older articles is
about as easy as finding and reading recently
published articles, significant advances aren't
getting lost on the shelves and are influencing
work worldwide for years after.
The minute someone
gets defensive
about any of this, doesn't think there's always more to learn
about writing or
publishing, is content with the mediocrity of a couple hundred sales of their
work on Amazon, or thinks they can beat the tried - and - true system of years of hard
work and dedication it takes to be a respected author, I know I'm talking to a hobbyist.
Announcing (and I don't doubt her) that the only way to
get back to her own creative
work was to put what she's learned
about marketing into a book — there were questions from her fans everywhere but in her fortune cookies, apparently — she has, indeed,
published the mercifully explicit title, How To Market a Book.
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I gave you advice based on 45 years in all sides of the
publishing industry, based on being
published since 1967, based on being a writing teacher, based on
working with writers who
get on the NYT best sellers lists, and based on
working on issues involving online promotions including in regard to Amazon with Amazon and with publishers I have
worked with,
about how you should and should not send out these requests.
I have to admit that when I started thinking
about self -
publishing, I thought that it might not be worth the effort because I wouldn't
get much on the return; that is, without a publisher to promote me, who would bother buying / reading my
work?
I'm going to talk
about the primary ways to
get your
work out there right now (print - on - demand paperback
publishing and e-
publishing) and how much things costs, but I want to say up front that there are very few things you have to pay for.
But I'd so much like to catch authors before it's too late to
get a book publicist really excited
about a project: before a major book
publishing house has given up on promoting the book (or lost interest in selling the book) or before an author has committed to
working with a print - on - demand company whose imprint would make a book
about 95 % more difficult to properly promote than it has to be.
If the above is not interesting for you, or if you are only now venturing into self
publishing your
work, forget
about Lightning Source, you'll
get lost soon.
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There's been a lot of talk
about how self -
publishing is diluting the quality of the
work that
gets put out into the world.
Randomly stumbled upon this tonight and I see most of the comments are now years old... but in response to your last comment Tracy
about how you know at least some writers that make $ 1,000 a day by writing longer
works... out of curiosity, are these writers
publishing dozens of books to
get to that level or did they just find the right niche and only have to
publish a few books to
get to that level?
Finally, any indie authors still choosing to operate under a half - arsed mentality of, «eh, I'll just
publish it through Amazon», will inevitably
get pushed to the bottom of the pile as those who are serious
about making things
work will continue to hike to the top — egged on by readers, peers and other like - minded artists within this incredibly supportive community.
Getting an editor and a great cover design are big steps in
publishing that I am very vocal
about authors seeking before
publishing their
work, and book formatting is another key I don't mention enough.
While I haven't
worked at Pearson for some years now, it will always be meaningful to me as I started my
publishing career at Pearson Education (Maskew Miller Longman) in Cape Town, and it was Pearson head office's promotion of technology and content management that first
got me thinking
about new forms of
publishing and sparked my interest in content management.
Archway
Publishing can help
get your book into the hands of reputable and professional book reviewers who have the power and potential to spread positive messages
about your writing and your
work.
N.K. Jemisin wrote a liberating blog post
about how writing exactly what she wanted to write propelled her to success: «I think The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms became my «breakout» novel (i.e., the one that actually
got published, as opposed to the ones still sitting in my harddrive) because I stopped caring
about what the market wanted... [conclusion] The lesson here is obvious: trying to write what the market wanted didn't
work for me.
I'd love to have the confidence to self -
publish, but whenever I read
about the «how - to» of how other writers have done it, I just
get so intimidated and feel like I'd never be able to do that kind of
work.
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about book
publishing is
getting reviews.
2 min readHow do self -
published authors
get the word out
about their
work?
Margaret Harrison [00:02:07] Oh thanks, well so, yeah, I've
worked my whole career in
publishing and I started out on the ebook side
working for OverDrive, a major distributor of ebooks at public libraries, and focusing on ebooks, so much of it is
about the metadata, not just
getting books into channels but also making sure those books, as Justine said, can be discoverable, can be found, and so I started spending a lot more of my time on metadata, and I'm a curious person so I
got to know a lot and here I am
Your friends, family, and publisher will do everything they can to spread the word
about your
work, but at the end of the day, with more books than ever being
published and read, authors who think their
work is done after the finished manuscript is in simply won't be read as widely as an author who (respectfully) continues to do everything he or she can to
get their book into the hands of readers.»
And I could add to the advice
about producing a quality product before
publishing to run your
work past some savvy beta readers or a discerning critique group to catch any parts that drag or are confusing, etc., then it would be best to
get a professional edit from a reputable freelance editor who reads and edits your genre.
On the other hand, compared to
publishing packages, you'll
get everything you need from me for
about the same price — but everything will be much higher quality (because you're paying me directly, rather than a big company that is going to farm out the
work and make more money by giving you cheap design).
I'm a big believer in making money on books and not
getting ripped off, so first I'd like to explain a couple of things
about how book
publishing works.
However, it can be a valuable indicator of how serious an author is
about the process of
getting their
work in the best shape possible to
publish.
Tim Ferris, author of The Four Hour
Work Week, has an excellent video on YouTube
about Self -
Publishing Vs.
Getting a Real Publisher.
Learn
about the the book
publishing process and
get the resources to choose which
publishing option fits your
work best: traditional
publishing or self -
publishing.
When authors pay to
get their books reviewed, they don't pay to have a good review
published, but only an honest opinion
about their
work.
But before you go and
get all excited
about what this seismic shift might mean, we should point out that the title, A Hologram for the King, was written and
published by Dave Eggers, author of seven books — including the well regarded (and, not coincidentally, traditionally pubbed) A Heartbreaking
Work of Staggering Genius and Zeitoun.
There's a lot of talk
about how there's more competition in the Kindle Store and elsewhere these days — more independent authors
publishing and also more Big 6 backlist books being put out in ebook form, but if you can cultivate a fan base that enjoys your
work and will try a lot of what you write, then you can do this for a living, providing you're able to
publish regularly and keep
getting more stuff out there for readers to consume.
The way I
got into self -
publishing myself was through the cooperation with self -
published British author and blogger Joanna Penn on a split - royalty basis, because I knew I could learn a lot
about the process by doing this and here is a link to an interview she did with me regarding my
work.
There is no shortage of authors writing books and thanks to the multitude of platforms to create an ebook or a print - on - demand physical book, there is also no shortage of ways an author can go
about getting his
work into the hands of the reading public, even while bypassing the traditional
publishing industry altogether.
Joe Konrath constantly talks
about getting up more
work, Locke didn't even start
publishing until he finished five novels, I push writing more and more here all the time.
He asked a lot of good questions for authors
about working with an editor,
getting published, and effective book promotion.
We can give advice
about networking opportunities, and best ways of presenting your
work to a prospective publisher, or how to
get started on the self -
publishing journey.
I now have to
get back to a hopeful, hard -
working novelist and tell her that, because she thought
about garnering traditional book reviews just
about the time the book was slated to be
published, that plan just isn't going to
work out for her.
A fun way to
get people talking
about your
work is to take and share screen shots or photos of your writing and
publishing milestones to share on Facebook.
Legendary author Tom Robbins says he knew little
about self -
publishing until a young author he's been mentoring convinced him that avoiding the traditional route was the best choice for
getting her
work out quickly and under her own control.