Sentences with phrase «better opportunities for authors»

Despite the surge of new companies offering better opportunities for authors interested in self - publishing, companies that produce high - quality print editions or who give authors a valid distribution channel for their digital editions, it still seems as though the entire literary world feels the need to put air - quotes around the word author whenever a writer chooses to independently publish.

As independent bookstores look for ways to adapt to a changing publishing and bookselling climate, a number of stores have begun to offer better opportunities for authors and readers to connect through indie titles.

For the last couple of years Amazon has opened it's arms offering the best opportunity for authors to get published and reach the mass consumer market accepting eBooks and print books from Independent publishers.

And a good opportunity for authors.

Not exact matches

«And yet,» state the authors, «despite the promise of digital assistants, they also carry significant social, political, and economic concerns... The more we rely on our butler, the more data it collects on us, the more opportunities for the algorithms to learn, and the better the butler can predict our needs and identify relevant services.»

You'll turn up some great guest post opportunity possibilities for yourself, as well as gain some insight into ways you can connect with authors of authority.

Some practical points: If you're just starting out, some opportunities that make a lot of sense for platform - building include: writing guest posts for popular bloggers who share a similar audience, writing a regular column for a newspaper or online magazine, seeking out speaking gigs (paid or unpaid), participating in conferences (for networking opportunities as well as exposure to new, inspiring ideas), using social media to share your message, and requesting interviews with popular authors / speakers / leaders to feature on your blog.

• The report's authors call for better mentoring and support structures, more transparent evaluation procedures, and tailored training opportunities.

The study authors point out that the continuity and stability of care is often better in institutions, as are opportunities for child - centric activities and education.

Authors say the study underscores the need for additional training in nutrition for cardiologists and other physicians, as well as more opportunities to educate patients.

«While many employers are interested in making wellness efforts more social to increase engagement, based on our findings there is a significant opportunity to go further and improve outcomes by better designing these competitions,» said senior author David A. Asch, MD, MBA, a professor of Medicine and Health Care Management and director of the Penn Center for Health Care Innovation.

«Prenatal care is important because these visits provide opportunities for practitioners to evaluate and address health concerns for both mom and baby and discuss other important topics such as risks of smoking, the importance of good nutrition and other issues that could impact a pregnancy,» said Oakley, the paper's lead author and a post-doctoral researcher at OSU.

Dr Jochen Hinkel from Global Climate Forum in Germany, who is a co-author of this paper and a Lead Author of the coastal chapter for the 2014 IPCC Assessment Report added: «The IPCC has done a great job in bringing together knowledge on climate change, sea - level rise and is potential impacts but now needs to complement this work with a solution - oriented perspective focusing on overcoming barriers to adaptation, mobilising resources, empowering people and discovering opportunities for strengthening coastal resilience in the context of both climate change as well as existing coastal challenges and other issues.»

«There's an opportunity to do cannabis policy well, to apply lessons from regulating other products,» said first author Daniel G. Orenstein, JD, MPH, a UCSF postdoctoral fellow at the UCSF Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education, and the Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies at UCSF.

I also had the opportunity to chat with fashion stylist, best - selling author, and Glambassador for Glamour Magazine, Kendall Farr.

The authors give advice to school leaders, such as urging them to adopt digital programs first for «nonconsumption opportunities,» that is, for activities a school can not otherwise provide (good results may convince everyone that they may benefit existing activities as well).

Included in this website is information about writing with learning disabilities (such as dyslexia, dysgraphia, and fine motor delays) that hold students back from reaching their highest writing potential, as well as publishing opportunities and advice for young ambitious fiction authors.

Vocab in Action: Critical Vocabulary Strategies for Your Classroom, based on the work of Marilee Sprenger, and Total Participation Techniques, based on Pérsida and William Himmele's best - selling book of the same name, give educators the opportunity to witness how the authors» strategies are implemented in a classroom.

«The winding down of the current program and the governor's call for change presents an opportunity to rethink the administrative and programmatic structure of the state's facilities program, and to better align the program design with the state's policy objectives,» said committee chair Sen. Carol Liu, D - La Canada Flintridge, the bond bill's author.

The fact is parents (who the report's author seems to forget are the very taxpayers they purport to be worried about) are choosing the best educational opportunity for their children.

We have made it our goal to offer the best and most fair publishing opportunities for all authors.

The best opportunities are in «hybrid» publishing, which means, doing the things that make you the most money and build your author platform (those two things are not identical, and often even at odds: as in, you may give one book away for free to reach new readers, and make money on other books you charge more on).

Sure there are social media platforms like Goodreads, Wattpad, Facebook groups etc. and then there are the «real» opportunities that are so much harder to facilitate and organize (and pay for e.g. expense vs profit) like community or regional events and networks as you point out above, but I feel really strongly that the most important thing for an author to do in order to build a loyal paying (italics) fanbase / readership is to produce good quality works that are publicized properly and to spend time interacting with those of your readers who you know buy your books because they came to you in the first place.

I did want to provide a networking opportunity for writers and publishers, but I also wanted to create an opportunity for readers to meet authors they might have read as well as discover new authors.

Fortunately, there are more opportunities to build author connections in - person and online than ever before and these author connections are one of your best self - publishing tools for building your author platform.

Just in time for summer travel, Smashwords is offering up an author opportunity that is too good too miss.

Book Expo offers opportunities to hear from favorite authors such as Barbara Kingsolver, Junot Diaz, Michael Chabon and the chance to get a peek at the sure - fire best sellers of the fall (J.K. Rowling's title for adults, Casual Vacancy, is one of the leaders in that category, but is still under wraps).

When seats come open, I will send a PayPal invoice, that will be your opportunity to buy a ticket for $ 129.99 which gets you lunch on Wednesday (November 7), swag, snacks & drinks throughout, and the best three days of indie author conference you can imagine.

Authors with published content and links back to their website, have a better opportunity for having their books discovered.

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.

Peter Sandeen has a great list of leads and some good advice overall regarding conversion that you can apply to your indie author book marketing, and then there are sites like Guest Post Tracker that let you search for opportunities by topic and provide a service for tracking your submissions.

Lots of authors talk a good game about how broken the current trade publishing acquisitions system is, yet when an opportunity to bypass that system for FREE, and with NO RISK comes along, some of them STILL aren't willing to merely give it a try — or at the very least, wait until others have done so and reported back — before criticizing it.

So the opportunity for an author to get picked up by a traditional publisher is changing as well.

One of the reasons I believe e-publishers should be included in RWA eligibility is that I really do believe that the best of them provide substantial career opportunities for their authors.

Literary Agent Undercover is only for authors who understand the benefits of traditional publishing: no financial risk because someone else is paying for the privilege of publishing your book; a higher quality product thanks to a top - notch editor and cover designer; more profit due to better sales, distribution, and publicity; subsidiary rights opportunities like merchandising, translations, TV, feature film, etc; increased credibility and more book reviews; and the ability to spend more time writing, promoting, and doing what you love.

«City Book Review offers the absolute best promotional opportunities for both traditionally and independently published authors.

This premium feature is a Writer's Relief exclusive, offering self - published authors the best possible opportunity to reach untapped, interested markets and create an audience for their books.

It seems that if you have the time, energy and persistence, then it can be a good way to a) network with other authors and look out for cross-promotional opportunities and b) interact with potential readers.

Writers and authors alike ought to be scoping out opportunities for guest posting, contributing to magazines and anthologies, as well as keeping up their social media.

Self - publishing companies present a wonderful opportunity for authors to get their work published to share with the world, and, in my opinion, Dorrance Publishing Company is one of the best.»

Today, I'm writing my first blog post and what better time than now, when so many new and exciting opportunities are becoming available for authors every day.

Even if opportunities at the moment will be limited to those best selling of the indie authors, it represents a further development that will surely offer amazing opportunities for writers to connect with readers.

Even though there is more opportunity for authors to get published than ever before, I think it is only going to get better.

But for now, it appears to be one of the best opportunities in so far as it is a way for libraries to stop shunning indie authors» works by receiving feedback from a trusted name in the library space.

It is unfortunate the none of the nominees on this list is a self - published title, but as this list was reader - generated, it may be a telling sign of both how consumers perceive self - publishing, as well as how indie authors still have their work cut out for them in terms of viable promotion opportunities to help readers know about their work.

The agreement with Edelweiss will help ensure that these titles are available to bookstores for stocking, as well as make digital review copies available for book bloggers and reviewers, along with other outreach opportunities at the author's discretion.

Hire experts or work with an author - services company so you publish the best book possible and give yourself the best opportunity for success

This resource can be particularly useful for non-fiction authors (but that doesn't mean fiction authors won't find opportunities as well).

However it plays out, I offer kudos to Mark Zuckerberg for using his influence as a thought leader for good... to get people reading books, and for giving the authors he chooses to support the best book publicity opportunity they could ever dream about.

But, although it's interesting to see how Skype virtual book tours can be integrated into book promotion campaigns, I'm guessing that world - famous authors will be in a far better position to take advantage of the book publicity opportunity than the rest of us... now, and for a long, long time to come.