Sentences with phrase «author relations»

Where do you see your career path leading, as both an author and someone involved in author relations?

As with any such change in our business, our tireless Author Relations team is standing by to answer any questions you may have on this topic.

Update, 9/2/17: Dan Wood, director of author relations at D2D, has chimed in on the KBoards thread to say they're «working on» the problem.

Mark Lefebvre, director of self - publishing and author relations for Kobo, and Christine Munroe, Kobo Writing Life's U.S. manager, worked with author Maggie Jaimeson to develop the event for Jan's Paperbacks.

I recommended publishers create their own VPs of author relations and be more strategic in serving authors on a long - term, broad basis rather than on a title - by - title basis.

And it's an instance where Barnes & Noble's good author relations benefit it over Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN).

Mark Lefebvre the Director of Self - Publishing & Author Relations sat down with Good e-Reader to give a status update and to let authors know some of the exciting things that are happening.

She previously worked as Author Relations Manager for neobooks, and has held various positions at Random House Germany and Carlsen Verlag.

And at Kobo, the first thing that Self - Publishing and Author Relations Director Mark Lefebvre tells Publishing Perspectives is that the curatorial aspect of Reedsy's Marketplace is a key component of the company's interest:

Mark Lefebvre, the Director Self - Publishing & Author Relations told Good e-Reader, «We wanted to make sure that self - publish and indie authors have the ability to take advantage of pre-order activities, but not force them into it.

I heard back from an individual within author relations about the current changes going on at the Kobo Book Store.

MetaComet helps publishers reduce the effort of managing royalties by up to 90 %, while enhancing author relations and improving rights income.

Mark Leslie Lefebvre Bio: Mark Leslie Lefebvre is the Director of Self - Publishing and Author Relations at Kobo.

2017 Guest of Honour speech from writer, bookseller and Director of Self Publishing & Author Relations for Kobo, Mark Leslie.

Mark Lefebvre the Director of Self - Publishing & Author Relations sat down with Good e-Reader to give a status update and to let authors know some... [Read more...]

I am the Social Media Coordinator and Author Relations Manager for BiblioCrunch.

A solution like that designed by Pubsoft would certainly build a community of readers that can help spread the word about an author and their works — and that should lead to better sales and better author relations (I've never met an author that wasn't in favor of more royalties).

Last summer, Kobo's Director of Self - Publishing and Author Relations, Mark Lefebvre, issued a letter to potential users of Kobo's direct - upload platform.

I've been in touch with Mark Lefebvre, the director of self - publishing & author relations, over at Kobo, and I hope to be able to give you guys some more information on the program soon, but it definitely looks like a promising new contender so far.

Mark Lefebvre the Director of Self - Publishing and Author Relations at Kobo told Good e-Reader that, «Cover art isn't just necessary, it's critical.

Kobo launched its new self - publishing dashboard at this morning's BookExpo event, and the Director of Self - Publishing Services and Author Relations was on hand for an interview with GoodEReader to talk about what Writing Life offers both traditional publishers and self - published authors in terms of real - time sales data, notifications, and foreign language markets.

Mark Lefebrve, director of Self - Publishing and Author Relations at Kobo, said in a press release on the venture, «Having worked as a bookseller for twenty years, I recognize the critical role that local booksellers and librarians play in the role of supporting local authors.

In January at Village Books in Bellingham, Washington, Mark Lefebvre, director of self - publishing and author relations at Kobo, talked about Kobo Writing Life's services and was followed by two authors who published their titles through the Village Books publishing program.

I'm grateful to him, Geller, Morris, and the many others whose comments on their articles have played into this two - week exchange, corps - à - corps... even as the wider, battered industry apparently is too caught up in its daily hysteria to mount anything but a passata - sotto, a dropping out of sight, an evasion, on the knotty issue of publisher - author relations.

Well, I had a short email exchange with Mark Lefebvre, Director of Self Publishing and Author Relations at Kobo, and he mentioned that their Canadian Merchandiser likes to see (and might even give preference to, insofar as showcasing indies goes) books with normal looking prices (i.e. $ 4.99 instead of $ 4.92).

Everything in the publishing industry seems to be changing these years — business models, sales channels, sourcing channels, marketing models, consumer access, author relations, user habits, etc..

Mark Lefebre, Director of Self - Publishing & Author Relations at Kobo, and Orna Ross will be doing a Q / A on publishing in 2013.

Kobo launched its new self - publishing dashboard at this morning's BookExpo event, and the Director of Self - Publishing Services and Author Relations was on hand for an interview with GoodEReader to talk about what Writing Life offers both traditional publishers and self - published authors in terms of real - time sales... [Read more...]

There she also spearheaded an author relations initiative for the long list of contributing editors of Leadership journal.

Partnership may be something, she is telling us, that traditional publishing wants to consider in its author relations.

With a wicked sense of humor, an affinity for the supernatural realm, a preternatural interest in books, and a proclivity for storytelling that began in his youth, Mark Lefebvre has capitalized on his talents as an author, and, more recently, as the Director of Self Publishing and Author Relations at Kobo.

Today, Mark Lefebvre, Director of Self - Publishing and Author Relations for Kobo stops by to discuss their new interface for Indies.

Per Kobo's Mark Lefebvre, the move away from $ 1.99 is clear Publisher's Weekly ran an article about Kobo Writing Life (KWL) that included a great sound bite about ebook pricing trends from Mark Lefebvre, Director of Self - Publishing and Author Relations.

Mark is the Director of Self - Publishing & Author Relations at Kobo where he was part of the team that launched Kobo Writing Life, a DIY self - publishing portal for authors and small publishers.

-- Mark Lefebvre, Director Self - Publishing & Author Relations, Kobo Inc..

I also spent six years as the Director of Self - Publishing and Author Relations at Kobo, where I created and launched their hugely successful Kobo Writing Life self - publishing platform and team.

Between 2011 and 2017, Mark worked at the Director of Self - Publishing and Author Relations for Kobo where he was the driving force behind the creation of Kobo Writing Life, a free and easy to use author / small - publisher friendly platform designed to publish directly to Kobo's global catalog in 190 countries.

Mark Lefebvre, director of self - publishing and author relations at Kobo, stresses the importance of genre - specific writing that appeals to your particular audience.

I pointed out that Amazon has a VP of author relations, and views the author like a second customer, but publishers have no such author - relations position or focus on authors as a community to be served.