Sentences with phrase «audience for books like»

I take it that pastors with such a longing to be hip form part of the intended audience for books like The Gospel According to Disney and What Would Buffy Do?

Not exact matches

For our audience that would like to focus on the younger or general audience book club, you'll enjoy reading Parenting from the Inside Out by Daniel Siegel.

This is why he says that his book, written for a lay audience, inevitably contains «only a shadow of the argument I would like to make».

You are raising kids; you write book after book for general audience in addition to research paper after research paper for a lay audience; you love, you know, regular stuff like Bugs Bunny cartoons and Mel Brooks movies and baseball — he's a Boston Red Sox fan [but what are you gonna do?].

Her new book, The Facebook Era: Tapping Online Social Networks to Build Better Products, Reach New Audiences, and Sell More Stuff (Prentice Hall) just released on March 30th, talks about the cultural transformation underway thanks to social networks like Facebook and Twitter, and what that means for people's behavior, interactions, and relationships — both with one another and with businesses.

Its story of a sadistic plutocrat who likes to punish women in his sex dungeon and insist that they sign nondisclosure agreements accounts for millions of book sales and a billion - dollar movie franchise, consumed eagerly by an enthusiastic female audience.

WARNING: this movie is NOT for a general audience like all books are not written for one person, etc..

That's the only way reviews have ever worked for a mainstream audience, be it as part of the captive audience for weekly reviews as part of a newscast, as a column in a popular magazine or newspaper, on its own as in shows like Siskel & Ebert At The Movies, or even in print — Leonard Maltin, another beloved film critic and film historian, established his name writing a book of capsule reviews.

Based on the beloved book by Ernest Cline, Ready Player One is a nostalgic trip back to all things 80's and like the Oasis, the film gives the audience a chance to escape reality for a few hours.

A mix of Tolkein-esque quest epic and seventies attitude, it was like a PG version of an underground comic book made for the big screen, and was Bakshi's first effort to reach a mainstream audience.

This is, essentially, a movie that has no idea of whom its audience consists, or better, it's a movie that realizes its audience will be made up of two different age groups: adult fans of the book and children who like animated movies or whose parents believe introducing their kids to this material will be good for them.

None of the nominated films was a box - office smash (a whispered groundswell of support for comic - book film Deadpool never materialized), although films like La La Land, Arrival, and Hidden Figures have majorly outdone expectations with audiences.

Host James Corden reminded the audience that you don't need to be a musician to win a Grammy — the award for Best Spoken Word Album has gone to books written by a number of politicians like Barack Obama and Bill Clinton.

Yet the book and the film rebuff the notion that stats geeks can't love the game like the purists, so when the A's enjoy their underdog triumph, it's consistent for the audience to enjoy it, too.

Vehicle Description: The Honda NSX Was First Showcased To An Eager Global Audience At The 1989 Chicago Auto Show, With This Radical New Japanese Supercar To Offer A Firm Fight To The Already Infamous Italian Competitors And Even Before The Order Books Had Opened, The Likes Of Porsche, Ferrari And Lamborghini Realised That The NSX Was To Set A Brand New Benchmark For Engineering Excellence.

I'm also completely unaware of any pentup demand in the consumer market for self - pubbed books - even in my tiny niche subgenre of m / m, people just aren't interested in self - pubs even though the books certainly exist, * unless * the author already has an audience (which they often do through things like fanfiction.)

Children's books are bought by parents and teacher through the trade market, and you can treat your book just like adult books for those audiences.

When your book is all set for publication, your audience will feel like they already know you.

Like all his other previous books Reeve writes predominantly for a young adult audience.

On the one hand, there should be more and better opportunities for writers to see their works produced and brought to an audience; maybe aspiring authors should start querying book app companies like Smashing Ideas and Padworx right alongside agents and publishers.

For example, if your book is on health and fitness and you have identified your audience as other like - minded fitness enthusiasts, you may already know several websites these enthusiasts regularly visit to learn about fitness and to make purchases.

Using the marketing strategies you're about to learn, I was able to get the book ranked # 1 for the term Lifehack in less than 1 week even though websites with much bigger audiences than mine like Lifehacker and Lifehack were going after the same term.

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Smart kids who like Blue Balliet's books are the natural audience for this; but, read aloud, the novel will attract many others as well.

For example, if your book is on health and fitness and you have identified your audience as other like - minded fitness enthusiasts, you may already know several websites they may regularly visit to learn about fitness and make related purchases.

For example, while there are exceptions like the great Joanna Penn who gain a large following for their writing by building a writing - based blog, most often, other writers are not going to be an audience who becomes an avid fan base for your book (Let's face it... writers are supportive of each other, but we're busy focusing on our own books, tooFor example, while there are exceptions like the great Joanna Penn who gain a large following for their writing by building a writing - based blog, most often, other writers are not going to be an audience who becomes an avid fan base for your book (Let's face it... writers are supportive of each other, but we're busy focusing on our own books, toofor their writing by building a writing - based blog, most often, other writers are not going to be an audience who becomes an avid fan base for your book (Let's face it... writers are supportive of each other, but we're busy focusing on our own books, toofor your book (Let's face it... writers are supportive of each other, but we're busy focusing on our own books, too!).

Social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter (especially Twitter, it seems) encourage engagement with your audience and can be a powerful tool for book marketing.

Although it's target audience is very focused, I was amazed at the amount of interest they generated in diverse media that I would have never thought of... They are very nice and comfortable to work with, and they make life easy taking you step by step, which is very helpful, especially for people like me who have not the first clue about marketing a book!

Yet, just like the images used for any other genre, the design of your self - published poetry book's cover must grab your audience's attention and entice them to buy.

Most Caldecott winners and Honor books have looked like picture books — they've been 32 pages or so, and generally taller than they are long — and many are appropriate for preschool audiences.

Re Lucian's concern i think publishing will continue to morph and new alliances of writers, journalist, curators, illustrators, translators and social & mobile geeks will collaborate on ways to create ebooks, enhanced ebooks, interactive books — and additional distribution channels along with amazon... and increasingly what we create can be agnostic of technology, available on any devise, Mathew's coverage has been in - depth, up - to - date and writing for a wide audience... as a former JSJ reporter who is interested in this area i am in awe of his writing, and thankful for it, like so many others here evidentally are... maybe you, Matthew, will author your own Amazon - supported book?

Unlike popular sites like Kickstarter, both LeanPub and PubSlush reach a targeted audience that is self - selecting for book projects, as opposed to a wider variety of projects, which in turn increases their authors» success rates.

As you've probably heard me say a hundred times, there are only a handful of activities (like writing, research, book design and building an audience) that truly matter for selling books.

I got one offer, but it seemed like a half - hearted one where the publisher didn't seem to believe there'd be much of an audience for the book, and where they wanted something other than what I was pitching.

Also, find books like yours, written by authors who you can possibly collaborate with in the future for marketing, and investigate how they connect with their audience and where.

Ultimately, Ape Entertainment is on a mission to increase the awareness and reach of the comic book industry as a whole; while acknowledging that part of that potential audience is looking for titles like their previous work on Pocket God, there is still a growing segment who will actively seek out the dynamic possibilities of comics that can teach through these widely recognized playful monsters.

Like Rosoff's first book (How I Live Now) Just In Case is ostensibly a book for older teens, but it would be a great pity if this was the only audience to discover it.

They seem to grok the future of books better than most of mainstream publishing at this point, and if this device is the vehicle of choice for a growing portion of the book audience, it looks like we all need to familiarize ourselves with it...

I bet you can already imagine the potential that a service like this holds for self - publishers (like you) who want to get their books discovered and build their audiences.

Too often, I ask authors who is the audience for your book, and they give me an answer like: «Every man, woman and child on this planet.»

Avoiding the usual retail channels means that Digital Manga makes a lot more per book, but it makes these books seem like specialty products, not suitable for a general audience.

If I'd created a new Facebook page for every book I've written my audience would be divided, and I doubt that someone who liked my first Facebook page would like subsequent pages.

To her surprise, the tree opens up, sending Sadie falling down into the abyss, into a land she's only ever read about — where she must begin a long, terrifying, and heartbreaking journey home.This book is intended for mature audiences and contains disturbing content that may cause the reader to delve into his or her own land of fantasy... just like Sadie.This is the first novella...

I'll admit I'm trying to go to a traditional publisher, mainly because it has the resources to get to those wider audiences I'd like, but I'll never tell a person not so self - publish — especially when there are companies such as Lulu and Createspace where you don't pay for anything but a copy of your book.

I have 3 books I'd like to e-publish, and they couldn't be more different, so building an audience won't be as easy for me as for genre authors, et al..

Cover design reveals are fine if you have a large audience and you don't make a big deal out of it, or when you reveal in conjunction with a book launch — like «here is the cover for my new book, which is available now!»

When hiring for a complex book interior (like a cookbook or children's book), look for a designer who understands your audience and any genre - specific challenges.

First, you need to know who your audience is, what keywords they search for, what books they like.

They dropped every month for the first 5 months of 2015 (the most recent month that data's available from the AAP); for that period in total, adult ebook sales are down 3.2 percent compared to 2014, while young adult ebook sales (think books like Hunger Games and Divergent, which have a huge adult crossover audience) are down 43.3 percent.

While I am not depending on the income from the book for my livelihood, I would like the book to reach my target audience — product managers, designers, etc..