A lot of
big name authors see their website as something the publisher should do and they therefore get updated once every couple of years when a new book comes out.
Not exact matches
You
see authors with several books out, who have all manner of credentials to their
name, and platforms as
big as those of a rockstar.
Side note: Anytime you
see a book cover where the
author's
name is
bigger than the title, it's the
author's
name that sells book, not the story inside.
That's why we're
seeing more and more midlisters take co-writing jobs with
big names authors, so that the
big names will have more books available.
My prediction for the coming year is that we're going to
see more and more
big name authors jumping into the waters — and finding great success.
Large publishers can't compete against that (a traditional mass market paperback sold for $ 8.00 earns the
author about 40 cents), which is one of the reasons I firmly believe the future of publishing lies in the hands of indie
authors and small publishers, and in the years ahead we'll
see more and more
big -
name authors go indie.
Kit de Waal's striking debut, My
Name is Leon, has inspired this
big, long, complicated question: Have you ever read a book about a character that is very unlike you, yet the
author has succeeded in making him so relatable that once you've
seen the world through his eyes you will never look at it the same way again?
And just like Pulp Fiction
authors who went on to be
big names in publishing, we're already
seeing indie
authors blazing their own trails to fame and fortune (and sometimes infamy).
Now that I'd
seen it exhibited by two
big name authors, I realize that no matter how successful, every writer must have it.
We have the wagons filled with
authors who think that they are going to break
big because they read someone's work that sort of sucked (but who is a household
name) and they think, hey, my crappy book doesn't suck any worse than theirs, maybe I'll throw it up on Amazon and
see if it finds an audience.
A pitfall there is that an
author who publishes a full novel may never
see that novel in print under a label
name, as Indie and
Big Five presses — like most companies — don't want to compete against themselves.
We're beginning to
see big -
name mainstream
authors dipping their toes in the self - pub pool, and publicizing their successes.
I've
seen a lot of
big name authors, and small ones too, hating on Kindle Unlimited.
Since Oyster has announced the collaboration with
big -
name publishers, we will have to wait and
see the entire list of publishers and
authors they currently work with.
That remains to be
seen, but last weekend (September 20th) an annual secret soiree held in New Mexico for
big name authors and hosted by Amazon was missing some invitations — significantly, invitations to Hachette authors or those who have publicly shown support for Authors
authors and hosted by Amazon was missing some invitations — significantly, invitations to Hachette
authors or those who have publicly shown support for Authors
authors or those who have publicly shown support for
Authors Authors United.
Everything needs to be readable in thumbnail so, when somebody's looking at it on Amazon, they can
see what type of book it is, whether it's a thriller, or sci fi, romance, whatever it is, and the title, and the
author's
name, are very important and
big.
it's mostly the
name brand
authors you
see in the
big box stores or airport shops, anyway.
Some of our
bigger -
name authors continue to
see print growth, but with so many bookstores facing financial problems, it's harder to get them to take a chance on new
authors than it used to be.
We've already
seen authors collaborate by pulling together to do a book bundle and, in fact, even
big -
named bestselling
authors are doing this as well.
Buffy and I
saw a
Big Name Author stagger out of the Keynote Address early.
It is refreshing to
see a company that has the experience and capability to command the respect of
big -
name best - selling
authors, and yet, can service those of us just getting Read More
«You may
see Microsoft and Apple tie some
big -
name authors into an exclusive deal to sell their digital content just like certain games are available only through Sony's PlayStation 3 or Microsoft's XBox,» says Mike Essex, online manager for Koozai, a London - based digital marketing agency.