Sentences with phrase «anything about book publishing»

You can ask Mark anything about book publishing, including questions about writing agent queries.

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Perhaps the internet is doing all of the above and more: encouraging and unifying small religious and other movements; further facilitating scientific unification across geographic proximity, if not also creating new scientific theories and concepts; fostering the rise of new forms of spiritual irrationalism such as those discussed in Wendy Kaminer's wild book, Sleeping with Extra-Terrestrials; focusing the public even more on particular public personas in news, sports and everything else; creating new classes of investors who are willing to publish online just about anything, regardless of whether or not they agree with it; germinating new technological ideas that are luring capitalists who hold unreasonable expectations of financial bonanzas.

how does fair, unbiased CNN, AKA ACNN (Anderson Cooper News Network) pick and choose stories as noteworthy... a comment is made by a very elderly priest, probably not quoted properly, and is «front page news» on CNN's website... this same man (priest) has written many great books, done a lot of great charity work in the poorer parts of New York and nothing is ever posted on the website... but something is said incorrectly and its published... is this fair, is it right, is it unbiased or is the motivation to make an entire Church lokk bad and let the anti-Catholic screwballs have their heyday in hateful posts... I didn't see this wonderful netwrok post anything about the disgusting, bigoted and hateful attacks, written by the liberal left wing media elites, like Maureen Dowd, against Rep. Paul Ryan and his Catholic faith... it's all acceptable to you liberal HYPOCRITES!

In reading through the guidelines for Letters submissions, I didn't find anything that indicated self published books are not allowed to enter, unlike the National Book Award, which is clear about this.

After the jump, more on my impressions of the book so far (no real spoilers or plot details beyond those given in the published summary, but if you don't want to know anything about this one before you buy, stop here).

If you've read anything about publishing contracts, you'll understand that the majority of authors don't get a say in how the book is edited, printed, marketed, or distributed.

And they have good covers available, forums and / or classes on writing your books, the reviewer grabber, and just about anything else you can think of to help you to publish.

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Oh, and if you're wondering who the hell I am and why I think I know anything about publishing, feel free to browse my books here.

«I didn't have any sort of following or even a Facebook page or anything when I first published, so I just typed in something like «book publicity», found some things about blog tours.

You can ask Mark anything about book development, publishing your book, or book marketing.

The topics can be about anything and everything concerning books and book publishing.

Let me say this clearly again: If you are selling your books to traditional publishing, don't waste your time with anything I am talking about here.

But rather than segregating self published books, what I would rather see is an education of the public to differentiate between the terms vanity publishing (which I think most folks agree is generally bad and awful and will never lose its stigma), self - publishing (which often connotes work that has not been properly vetted by people who know how to judge a good product) and indie publishing, which is a term that those of us who use it are hoping will come to mean quality — work that has been vetted by independent editors and formatted by people who give a damn about putting out a professional product that rivals anything put out by New York.

* Tips about writing or publishing or anything related to the content of your books or anything that you, as an author, are expert on

Pressbooks was designed to take care of the technical hurdle of publishing: We make it easy for anyone to make professional - quality ebooks and PDFs for print, without knowing anything about coding or book design.

The fundamental problem staring self published authors in the face is how do I go from a book that no one knows anything about, to a best seller?

Anything that is porn doesn't count — we're talking about writing, not jerking off on a page, which has always had different «marketing» attached to it — and those real books that have gained a mainstream audience have done so specifically because they were eventually traditionally published, i.e. pulled out of the self - publishing slush pile.

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Although most authors use this Q&A page to post questions about how to get a literary agent... you can ask me anything about writing, publishing, and / or marketing your book (s) below.

It would be a book on why I'm not qualified to publish any book since I don't consider myself to be an expert on anything, and how it's better for me to just read more about the topics that I am familiar with and the ones that I'm not.

disclosure about the real author, and book sales took off as much out of curiosity as anything else... the true test will come when JK publishes the sequel.

And whatever type of publisher you publish your book with, you need to read and understand your contract very carefully before you sign — if you don't have a literary agent to represent you, get a lawyer to look at the contract if you have questions about anything (and don't forget to add the legal costs to the cost of your self - publishing venture!).

This came about because at roughly the same time I decided not to self - publish anything new for a few months so as not to conflict with the release of Immortal at the Edge of the World, Amazon decided to announce they were allowing preorders for all of their Kindle Direct Publishing books.

As it is today, the book industry gives short shrift to just about anything self - published, condemning vast swaths of important new books to remain unknown and undistributed, and fall through the cracks.

At launch there were about 5000 selections available but that amount has vastly increased over the past few weeks and will continue to grow — self - published authors can submit anything from a single book to an entire catalogue.

So I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of times those publishing houses are buying the rights to books cheaply, knowing they won't do anything with the book, just to avoid those books being flooded into the market and distracting people's attention away from the few books that they truly do care about?

I was hopping to use the Kickstarter for self - publishing but I don't know anything about calculating the cost of the printing books.

Every time you post on Facebook or Twitter, every time someone visits your website, every time you send an e-mail message, every time you write an article about anything related to publishing — every time any of those things happen, you're marketing yourself and your books.

(Hint: there's a whole self - pubber subculture out there who are fanatically dedicated to the proposition that the traditional publishing industry is either doooooooooomed (like unto the dinosaurs) or a toxic, abusive cartel who refuse to sleep with them buy their books but want to take on authors and pimp them out like cheap streetwalkers exploit them — the doublethink is as spectacular as anything you see from the MRA loons, and about as closely connected to reality.)

In addition to criticisms of the quality of e-books being self published, meanwhile, there have also been complaints about an increase in e-book «spam» in the Amazon Kindle store, including books that are clearly just cobbled together from bits and pieces of public domain titles or even copyrighted works (Reuters reported recently that there are DVD instruction manuals that tell users how to write and publish dozens of e-books a day without having to write anything).

Dear Writers, you can write about anything related to authors, writing or publishing, or any other write - up which can be a resource for authors and book writers.

And essentially, that first book, I wrote it, and then I started to learn about the publishing industry, discovered how long it would take to get a book deal, decided I was not interested in waiting, or asking permission to do anything; I started to learn about self - publishing, started blogging, and that kind of started me on the journey of writing.

If you had a chance to ask John Kremer, a 34 - year book marketing veteran, anything about getting more traffic, getting more leads, making more book sales, social media ins & outs, or other book marketing questions, self - publishing questions, or book publishing questions, what's the # 1 question you'd ask him?

Each book you publish will probably do a little better, because you'll be learning and improving all the time, and growing your author platform (unless you're one of those writers who is completely ignoring your author platform, not learning anything about marketing, and just hoping to get lucky).

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It may not have quite the same resonance as William Goldman's infamous line about the movie business — «nobody knows anything» — but Carolyn Reidy's comment, made at a recent Book Industry Study Group meeting held in New York, that «the more we know, the more we have to learn» is an excellent reminder that, as the redoubtable chief executive of Simon & Schuster Inc also noted, publishing has its own «peculiar logic».

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After I arrived at that goal, 10,000 kept showing up in anything I read about self - published authors and the number of books needed to be sold to make a living at being a writer.

It's about persuading readers that the quality of our book is up to the standard of anything they can get from any publishing house from anywhere around the world.

As I once told a library audience when presenting about indie publishing, there are people who will react to a self - published book as if someone in the room just farted but they're too polite to say anything about it.

It's taken me about 30 - plus years to get where I am — a published author with an Indie publisher — 5 books on the Amazon market place but no $ $ to speak of, of course - and just when I think I can't write anything else, up pops another idea.

Given the long lead times involved in book publishing, I'm sure the publishers were powerless to do anything about it; on the other hand, the «any publicity is good publicity» school of thought might even view the recent massive publicity over gold's alleged demise as ultimately a positive.

What does Ogarkov say in his published books about nuclear winter, if anything?

To begin with, if it were about books, it's a little odd that many in the publishing business don't know anything about what Apple's about to announce.

«If you buy a digital book you should be able to read it on anything you want to read it on», said Pottermore CEO Charlie Redmayne who was at paidContent 2012 in New York to chat about e-books with our publishing reporter, Laura Owen.