The excerpts below are simply short excerpts from the much more detailed
author success stories about query letters that worked for authors who used the query letter writing strategies on this website.
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another author success story about Marni Battista in this article series called Query Letters that Worked.
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another author success story about Siobhan Cunningham in this article series called Query Letters that Worked.
Not exact matches
It seems like not a week goes by without some new
story about a self - published
author achieving great
success this way.
Jane Nelsen,
author of Positive Discipline, interviews Christina Marin
about her
success story with getting her oldest child to help with nap time.
Fitness pro and
author Jason Ferruggia comes to the show to talk
about his methods for strength gain, diet, and his own personal
story of
success.
There is some actual meat to the scenes between the two, as, from his professor, the egotistical, young «smart aleck» learns
about the balance of the
author's voice with an actual
story, the humility of rejection, and that being a writer means a devotion that doesn't always result in
success.
Yes, I've heard so many
stories of
authors thinking the way to
success is a huge, buzzed -
about debut, and something
about that idea always felt «off» to me.
The
success stories below
about query letters that worked were provided by
authors of all book genres (fiction, nonfiction, and children's books).
Lakshmi Subramani
Success Story Interview with Mark Malatesta — During this insider interview on our literary agent blog, Laskhmi Subramani,
author of the memoir Lights Out shares his best tips for
authors of all genres (at all stages of development)
about how to...
Marni Battista — This
author success story is part of a series
about Query Letters that Worked on our Query Letter Blog.
Jeri - Anne Agee
Success Story Interview with Mark Malatesta - During this insider interview on our literary agent blog, Jeri - Anne Agee,
author of the children's chapter book series The Life and Times of Birdie Mae Hayes shares advice for
authors of all genres
about...
Siobhan Cunningham — This
author success story is part of a series
about Query Letters that Worked on our Query Letter Blog.
Siobhan Cunningham — This
author success story is part of a series
about agent queries that worked on our query letter blog.
Erika Armstrong — This
author success story is part of a series
about agent queries that worked on our query letter blog.
Are you an
author with a
story to tell
about success marketing / writing?
I've been thinking a lot
about messaging as I've begun my transition from being a «
story development coach» to doing alignment, kick - ass motivation and
success mindset for emerging
authors and authorpreneurs.
But if you recognize that even the most successful
authors have been, say, rejected by 56 agents, like Kathryn Stocket was with The Help, or faced six years of rejection, like Julia Glass did before publishing Three Junes, which went on to win the National Book Award, it becomes just part of the process, a
story you can someday tell
about how hard - fought your
success was.
Whether you're in awe of an
author's writing capabilities, his / her ability to self - promote, or the sheer range of outlets that have reviewed his / her work, by better understanding
success stories in your genre, you have the opportunity to then identify the media outlets that have reviewed and shared information
about these books and
authors — outlets that you know are receptive to works in your genre.
Of course, Hugh Howey makes the point often that the outliers are not the
success story of self - publishing, that we should be talking
about the thousands of indies making good money, decent money, reaching readers and loving their lives as
authors.
The news is full of exciting
stories about bestselling indie
authors, and romance certainly has the largest share of indie stars, many of them like Bella Andre and Barbara Freethy, who count among the first and biggest indie
successes.
There are so many more
success stories from 2016 — when you publish around 1500 books a year by around 1000 talented writers,
success stories occur daily — and you can read
about a newly published
author every day here.
There are dozens of titles
about how to publish a book which are replete with
stories of rejected
authors who strike it rich, but that type of
success is incredibly rare and doesn't serve as a model you can follow.
Actually I've a finished novel and thinking to self - publish it in Amazon that's why I am searching
success stories of self - published
authors and the strategies they applied I'm skeptic
about Kindle select before but now I've a changed of heart, I wan na try it.
But be honest
about the
success stories of other self - published
authors, and acknowledge that while it might be easier than in the past to reach readers, it can still be hard and may not always work.
In our series, Self - Publishing
Success Stories, we ask our
authors about topics we believe they know best.
I'd like to share another indie
success story I recently learned
about: Terri Guiliano Long,
author of In Leah's Wake, who has sold almost 200,000 copies and has reached # 6 in B&N s bestseller's list.
Highlighting some of the many
author success stories and keeping readers in - the - know
about what their fellow writers are up to.
99 % of indie
authors will not have print distribution in physical bookstores, and I would postulate that all the
success stories we have heard in the last 2 years
about indie
authors and huge sales have come from ebook sales, not print.
And there continue to be
success stories about self published
authors, such as Catherynne Valente's five Fairyland novels which started as a crowdfunded project and became a best seller, according to New York Times.
As I'm reading the
story, all I can think is: I hope Kai Ryssdall (the host of Marketplace) asks this
author how he did it, because that is (literally) the million dollar question on everyone's mind when they hear
about a self - publishing
success story: what did they do that I can do?
The magical
stories about authors penning their passionate
stories AND finding
success publishing are not common... like the lottery.
As numbers come out and we learn at least enough
about the big
success stories to determine how little of the cash pool was available for other
authors to divvy up, we should be able to get a clearer picture of how well somebody can expect to do through this program, After all, even if you were only making $ 1 per book sold on each of your hypothetical 30 annual sales through Barnes & Noble, that's better than getting nothing at all from a lending library for Kindle owners.
And there are just as many
stories about traditionally published
authors who found more
success by going indie.
Jane Nelsen,
author of Positive Discipline, interviews Christina Marin
about her
success story with getting her oldest child to help with nap time.