But surely
those authors hitting the bestseller lists, like the New York Times, have hit the big time — right?
It's hard not to when you hear about the latest seven - figure book deal or read about an indie
author hitting the bestseller lists or selling their film rights.
Learn how to implement Mark's exclusive strategies that have helped dozens of Smashwords
authors hit the bestseller lists.
Not exact matches
An
author who finds an agent and a publisher quickly and when her book debuts it
hits # 1 on the NY Times
Bestseller List and then gets turned into a movie and she becomes an overnight success story.
He's personally coached over 450
authors, consulted with top publishing houses, and helped clients
hit the New York Times
bestseller list three different ways, including new fiction, new non-fiction, and backlist non-fiction.
For over 10 years, I've trained more than 450
authors, consulted with top publishing houses, and helped clients
hit the New York Times
bestseller list three different ways, including new fiction, new non-fiction, and backlist non-fiction.
She's an
author who has been providing an escape for readers for over 40 years and all of her 29 books have
hit the New York Times
Bestsellers list.
Hocking was picked up by St. Martin's after she
hit the Amazon
bestseller list as a self - published
author.
Jim Devitt's debut YA novel, The Card,
hit # 1 in three separate categories on the Kindle
Bestseller list in early January and was a finalist in the Guys Can Read Indie
Author Contest this past summer.
But with indie publishing running so much of the industry now, the playing field is really evened out and a lot of the big mojo that used to
hit the
bestseller lists is being seen in fiction — which often doesn't report to these
lists, or
authors are selling lots of copies of all of their books, as opposed to one, singular title.
These days,
authors like Hugh Howey, E.L. James, and Barbara Freethy regularly
hit the New York Times
bestseller list and have readers numbering in the millions.
The project
hit the New York Times
bestseller list, and while the profits had to be distributed across 12
authors, each
author in that collection achieved increased visibility and a new set of readers.
There are plenty of indie
authors who
hit bestseller lists without them.
He is the
author of the Pax Humana Saga and The Legacy Fleet Trilogy and has
hit the USA Today
Bestsellers list, as well as selling a lot of books through Amazon in the last year.
Indie
authors» # 1 book promotion strategy has been ads +
list trades to spike rank and
hit bestsellers lists — these are the most effective strategies and that's why I recommend them.
He's helped numerous books
hit the New York Times
bestseller list and worked with many well - known
authors, such as Dan Pink, Dan and Chip Heath, Charles Duhigg, Pamela Slim, and Hugh Howey.
For the past 10 years, I've coached over 450
authors at all levels and genres and helped clients
hit the New York Times
bestseller list three different ways (fiction and non-fiction).
Fast forward 10 years, I've now trained over 450
authors, consulted with numerous publishing houses, and helped clients
hit the New York Times
bestseller list three different ways, including new fiction, new non-fiction, and backlist non-fiction.
You're a NYT bestselling
author — tell us which book
hit the
bestseller list first, what number did you
hit, and what did you do to celebrate?
Erik Larson is the
author of five New York Times
bestsellers, including In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin, which
hit # 1 and remained on the printed
list for 35 weeks.
Australian
author Liane Moriarity
hit the
bestseller list for the first time in America with her fifth novel, The Husband's Secret.
The traditional publishing industry no longer seems to want to «nurture» /» guide» new
authors and accompany them on a long and hopefully successful career; instead, they want writers who will
hit the «
bestseller»
list with their very first novel and sell more than 20 000 copies in a flash (I may be exaggerating with the numbers but I don't think I'm that far off!).
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Author With Ad Stacking» Again, another article that isn't solely talking about Facebook Ads but talks about the use of multiple outlets to during a promotion period to sell books.
This boxset was released in March of last year by The Twelve, a consortium of thriller
authors who joined their marketing and promotion efforts and managed to sell over 100,000 copies in the first six weeks,
hitting both NYT and USA Today
bestsellers lists.
Others are bestselling
authors who have
hit the New York Times
bestseller lists many times.
He's personally coached over 450
authors and helped clients
hit the New York Times
bestseller list three different ways, including new fiction, new non-fiction, and backlist non-fiction.
If you want to be a
bestseller then you may want to talk to
authors who've
hit that
list or check out their websites, or facebook pages, and figure out how they got there.
Rob Eagar has coached over 450
authors and helped books
hit the New York Times
bestseller list three different ways, including fiction, non-fiction, and backlist.
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This week I experienced the Indie
Bestseller group of
authors, made up of Bella Andre, Hugh Howey, Jasinda Wilder, Barbara Freethy, Liliana Hart, Candice Hern and Stephanie Bond, all of whom are incredibly successful as indie
authors, both in terms of
hitting the big
lists, satisfying readers, and making a very good living.
Every week Smashwords
authors are
hitting bestsellers lists there, and every week you'll find Smashwords titles prominently featured.
Rowling's new book, which many thought would be one of the year's biggest
hits, debuted at No. 2 on the New York Times
bestseller list, a triumph for nearly any
author, but not for Rowling.
I could probably come up with at least 10 major benefits of running an Amazon book launch campaign, including how it helps you sell more books long after the
bestseller campaign is over, to getting approached by foreign publishers looking to do editions of your book in other languages (this has happened to several indie
authors I know, after they
hit the
bestseller lists on Amazon).
I've had days where a single bad review comes in on one of my books and then bam, I look and see a fellow Indie
author announcing they just
hit the NYT
Bestseller list, and suddenly my whole writing day is wrecked.
Independent
authors are now regularly
hitting the Amazon
bestseller lists.
Matthew: Those books have won a slew of awards, all of them have
hit the New York Times
Bestseller list, and they've been translated into dozens of languages, but like most
authors you struggled at the beginning of your writing career to make a name for yourself, didn't you?
She branched out into a second pen name writing YA Fantasy,
hit the USA Today
bestseller list multiple times with each pen name (and without the backing of a publisher), sold over 300,000 copies of her books worldwide, and is now making a good living as a midlist
author.
You reach more readers 2) You have a chance of becoming a genre
bestseller 3) Your Author Rank also increases This increase in ranking and increased visibility makes 15 Day Max Push great for 1) New Releases - run your book with us anytime during the first few months after release for best results 2) Attempts to hit the NY Times Bestseller list or the USA Today bestseller list 3) Attempts to become a genre bestseller 4) Promoting the discounted first or second book in a series to increase sales for the remain
bestseller 3) Your
Author Rank also increases This increase in ranking and increased visibility makes 15 Day Max Push great for 1) New Releases - run your book with us anytime during the first few months after release for best results 2) Attempts to
hit the NY Times
Bestseller list or the USA Today bestseller list 3) Attempts to become a genre bestseller 4) Promoting the discounted first or second book in a series to increase sales for the remain
Bestseller list or the USA Today
bestseller list 3) Attempts to become a genre bestseller 4) Promoting the discounted first or second book in a series to increase sales for the remain
bestseller list 3) Attempts to become a genre
bestseller 4) Promoting the discounted first or second book in a series to increase sales for the remain
bestseller 4) Promoting the discounted first or second book in a series to increase sales for the remaining books.
Author Gia Blue
hit number twenty three on the overall Amazon Kindle
Bestsellers list with a short erotic story and continues to self - pub what she calls her «smut» since she feels publishers won't touch it but... readers love it.
But there's been no one huge book promotion
hit — no, not even an appearance on «Oprah» — that can guarantee an
author will sell a specific number of books on a given day, or that the number of books sold will be enough to catapult the book to the
bestseller lists.
Her debut novel, A Sweethaven Summer,
hit the New York Times and USA Today e-book
bestseller lists and was a Carol Award finalist in the debut
author category.
Earlier this year, I coached two
authors, Wanda Brunstetter (fiction) and Lysa TerKeurst (non-fiction), and helped them
hit the New York Times
bestseller list.
I mean already have to read Facebook posts from
authors about
hitting every conceivable niche
bestseller list for that day or hour on Amazon but now I have to puzzle over what it means to be a NYT bestselling animal book (which is, I assume, by topic rather than
author — though I suspect my collie Hamish would love to be on this
list!).
How hundreds of
authors are
hitting NY Times and USA Today
bestseller lists thanks to their fans and friends, to the straight up hustle it takes to earn such a title.
But I can guarantee this: unless you're an
author who has already
hit a major
bestseller list and / or your book is the most important book being published by that traditional publishing house's imprint and / or you got paid an advance of $ 50,000 or more (in small genres like sf or westerns) or $ 100,000 or more (in larger genres like romance and mystery), your book will not get a single title ad.
You're a bestselling
author on Amazon — which of your books
hit the Amazon
bestseller list, how high did they go, and how many copies did you sell?
I bought a book recently, about how to
hit the
bestseller list — I was curious you know, to see the slant the
author had taken as well as the tips they offered.
Turns out, the
author had never
hit any
bestseller list, nor had they worked with a bestselling
author — ever.