Sentences with phrase «author platform goes»

A strong author platform goes beyond having thousands of email subscribers and a top - notch website, especially if you are trying to reach a younger generation of readers — like me.

Not exact matches

In addition to wearing their writer's hat, self - published authors need to do just about everything that goes into packaging, marketing, and selling books, like building an author platform.

Tuned To Baseball, his wife, Lulu, further revealed that he was Gone With the Wind author Margaret Mitchell's paperboy in Atlanta, succeeded Marty Marion at second base on the Northside Terrors, shot a hole in one, had a racehorse named after him, sang a duet with Pearl Bailey, appeared on a TV platform with Billy Graham and was baptized in the Jordan River.

«It's going to be a new platform of therapy, not just another cholesterol - lowering drug,» says Nicholas Leeper, a vascular biologist at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, and senior author on the new study.

In the past, the model and cookbook author has taken to her social platforms to get real about everything from stretch marks and period skin to the occasional spray tan gone wrong.

While many of the organizations prefer a content vendor some choose to go with in - house content authoring platforms.

Go Beyond Microlearning with this disruptive new platform that delivers personalized training, amazing analytics and rapid course authoring all wrapped in a stunning user experience.

In addition to making sure that your authoring platform is good to go, you also need to make sure that your audience can access it.

With classical authoring tools, you surely can personalize the content of your course, the sentences, the images... But with a game - based learning platform, you can go much, much deeper in the idea.

While this might be complicated with classical authoring tools, limiting yourself to eLearning modules without much interaction, a game - based learning platform could allow you to go to the next level.

Having an «author platform» is crucial for today's writers (whether you're going for traditional or self - publication).

Instead of going with Createspace or one of the other POD platforms available for indie authors, I tried out the new KDP Print option.

So when you publish your book, you have to come into a stadium that has people in it, and the only way you're going to have people in your stadium is to have an author platform and begin marketing your book in different ways.

Carole's book then goes into detail, step - by - step about which tools to use, and how to put it all together so that you have a well - oiled author platform working for you.

Instead, she went directly to Amazon's Kindle Direct Publishing, an online platform for self - publishing with a 70 % royalty rate for authors.

Nine times out of ten, part of an agent's decision to represent you is going to be influenced by how attractive your author platform is.

An agreement announced today between ebook distributor and self - publishing platform Smashwords and OverDrive, the largest provider of digital content to public and school libraries, is going to give self - published authors one of the few remaining pieces in the publishing puzzle, namely the ability for libraries to... [Read more...]

I think, right, now, the easiest option for the busy indie author is to go through a platform like Babelcube.

Look at the impact that a few sites already have on Indie Authors, some authors pray for luck in getting placement in the latest «Bookbub / ENT / POI / Freebooksy / etc / etc» because those platforms have figured out how to market since «Select didn't work for me» or «Countdown didn't work for me» or «Facebook only goes to 16 % of my fans list&Authors, some authors pray for luck in getting placement in the latest «Bookbub / ENT / POI / Freebooksy / etc / etc» because those platforms have figured out how to market since «Select didn't work for me» or «Countdown didn't work for me» or «Facebook only goes to 16 % of my fans list&authors pray for luck in getting placement in the latest «Bookbub / ENT / POI / Freebooksy / etc / etc» because those platforms have figured out how to market since «Select didn't work for me» or «Countdown didn't work for me» or «Facebook only goes to 16 % of my fans list».

When someone talks about the advantages of video blogging for your author platform does your heart start to race with that how - am - I - going - to - find - time - to - learn - another - new - thing feeling?

Your advice these last two weeks has been particularly useful to me (even though it made me want to go hang myself) since I suspect my blog is the weakest part of my author platform.

-- in growing my public footprint, and as an author who DOES make use of Amazon as a platform already, I will not be going for this.

So you're building your author platform and have decided a website / blog is the way to go.

There is one post tagged ten best tips and tools from out author platform event: personal interaction with consumers - be involved as an individual besides an author platform will keep you going in case something fails - less f.

Ironically, most of his takeaways are things that weren't unknown to anyone paying attention a year ago, including the value of an email list; the importance of an author's platform; the increasingly out - of - whack signal: noise ratio in the market; print as premium product; the power of free promotions combined with targeted marketing; and, perhaps the most obvious, ebooks have a long way to go before they replace print.

If you want to build an author platform on the web, go for it.

I'm going to write an article or two about more ideas to build an author platform in the near future.

For authors using Amazon Createspace and Kindle Direct Publishing as their self publishing platform, another reason to go print AND ebook is to potentially make more sales.

Social media platforms are the not the only places authors need to «go» or be «seen.»

I also think that platform is more important for self - published authors than for those going the conventional route.

An agreement announced today between ebook distributor and self - publishing platform Smashwords and OverDrive, the largest provider of digital content to public and school libraries, is going to give self - published authors one of the few remaining pieces in the publishing puzzle, namely the ability for libraries to stock their work.

«As a device - neutral platform, eBooks purchased through Kobo's eReading service can be read on various eReaders, which is a level of flexibility that benefits our authors as they seek to grow their audiences of readers,» went on Mr. Gutch, expounding the virtues the company's decision to embrace open standards such PDF and EPUB.

Under Chen's platform, the reading consumers decide individually how much they will pay for a bundle of five ebooks, as well as decide how much of that price will go to the authors, to charity, or to running StoryBundle.

While Vellum's price tag is supposed to let authors make one version of their ebooks that look streamlined and professional then upload it to all retail platforms, the price of the service is fairly close to what some formatters would charge to produce the different file versions of the books, and all the author has to do there is email the original document of the book without going through the laborious process of formatting it within the app.

Ahn went on to describe some of the processes which Korean ebook publishing platforms employ, notably a very user friendly drop - and - drag system which he compared to the ease of using Power Point, a factor which may lead to greater numbers of self - published authors, even as greater numbers of readers go digital.

Indeed, any budding book - buyer will probably go straight to Amazon and certainly may not search all the crowdfunding platforms for books by subject or other means; the only people that may be buying from an Author is another Author!

Or if you're going to write many — you're building an author platform, you're connecting with fans.

So when an author sits down to make this difficult decision [of where to publish their book], they have to weigh the pros and cons of that decision... I think it's very disruptive to an author's career to go exclusive anywhere, because it really takes years for an author to establish a readership and platform... One of the problems with exclusivity is, it forces authors to make this artificially imposed either - or situation about their distribution.

The main drawback however is the opportunity cost — in the 2 or 3 years it takes you to go from querying to publishing, you could have built an author platform of your own and written a few more books.

The next challenge is for publishers to go beyond seeing authors» platforms and communities as simply a green light to take a risk on a book, to develop tools and expertise to support their authors to build their platform or business even further through the book.

This is their «plus - one» platform where authors get additional perks by going «exclusive» (they don't sell on other online stores for 90 days) with Amazon.

Finally, I saw that one of my Twitter friends is going to start a «30 Day Author Platform» seminar — just as I'm beginning to build my «21 Day Author Platform» course.

As you can see, a bit of personality and reader engagement goes a long way when building your online author platform.

Our manuscript assessment service may also suggest other publishing possibilities such as submitting to a particular literary agent, whether to self - publish or go the traditional publishing route, marketing and building an author or book platform in advance of the manuscript being published.

The question of whether self - pubbed authors should go exclusively with Amazon: I decided to do so after about six months trying to sell books on all of the other platforms.

To go back to art, marina Abramovic and Jack Vettriano are both very good at what they do, and neither will be reduced to beans on toast except by choice in the near future — but I sense if they were self - published authors, whilst both would be welcome on a platform, it would be because both are financial successes, and they would gain their places over those closer to teh breadline, whilst if it were suggested that Abramovic were, whisper it, a better artist than Vettriano, that would be deemed wholly inappropriate and the panel would be pulled from the programme.

I'd also like to do some aggressive platform building on Instagram and Tumblr; connect with other authors in my genre, and basically become the «go to» guy for publishing and marketing YA fiction.

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I've heard other authors mention that not only were they «going wide», that is, selling on platforms other than Amazon, they were also selling from their own websites.

-LSB-...] Divide and Conquer: Building an Author Platform by Proxy by Kristin Morin (@kristinba) on Joanna Penn's The Creative Penn blog is one of those posts that could go into all sorts of categories — business, tech, social media — but it seems to fit best here.