Write a three sentence summary of your news angle or
book pitch here.
Not exact matches
This article though sounds an awful lot more like a sales
pitch for their
books now that they are
here in the US and have a huge gullible crop of sheep to fleece.
And
here are the five most disappointing films of the year: On the Road (Michael Winterbottom's Wolf Alice tour movie can't even find something interesting in its fictional subplot), Hampstead (a painfully strained romantic comedy set in a twee version of London), The
Book of Henry (Colin Trevorrow missteps with this convoluted thriller), The Snowman (Michael Fassbender struggles to sustain this lifeless Scandinavian mystery) and
Pitch Perfect 3 (it's painful to watch the Bellas try their hand at action - comedy).
But
here are 10 nonfiction
book club recommendations (in no particular order and all available in paperback) to
pitch to your group when you feel like mixing things up.
And
here's the
book trailer put out in the U.S. featuring Maria Semple hilariously
pitching her
book:
So, in honor of the World Series,
here's a question to think about as you wait for tonight's first
pitch: What
book best captures baseball?
Here's a hint: the reviewer liked our
pitch enough to comment on it in the actual
book review!
Not much going on
here except I am eyeballs - deep into a copy - edit of WANDERERS, a
book that will soon have cover copy I can share and also a cover I can share — right now I kinda
pitch it as «What if Stephen King and Michael Crichton wrote an epic - length Black Mirror episode?»
This companion to How to Sell Your
Books by the Truckload (you can read Zed's review here) provides details on how to craft a pitch to send to bloggers who review books in your genre and how to ask readers to write a re
Books by the Truckload (you can read Zed's review
here) provides details on how to craft a
pitch to send to bloggers who review
books in your genre and how to ask readers to write a re
books in your genre and how to ask readers to write a review.
• Unbound.co.uk
Here an author has to
pitch the idea of the
book and if the
book gathers enough pledges, then the author can begin writing the
book.
Have your elevator
pitch ready and be prepared to introduce yourself while offering up your
book: «Hi, I'm Suzy Author, and
here's my latest novel, fresh off the press.»
The bottom line
here is that as Amazon's power to sign up
books away from the major publishers grows, the retailers who depend on publishers for a flow of commercial product suffer along with the publishers... B&N's decision seems to me like the right move for them... On the other hand, authors and agents who might have considered an Amazon publishing deal will have to think twice if they know very few bookstores will carry it... There are a lot of smart people engaged in a
pitched battle
here.
Clearly, there's an implied
pitch for Stockopedia's services
here, but for anybody new to value investing this
book's probably an incomparable gem.
An interesting phenomenon recently has been
book publishers trying to
pitch / sell
books via the game press - and
here's the latest one, for hacker novel «Daemon».
When we were researching the
book, we talked to many people in the games industry
here in Stockholm and they all admitted they would never have accepted the idea of Minecraft if it had been
pitched to them.
(If there's a
book out there you'd like to discuss, post a comment
here or send your «
pitch» to
[email protected].)
With my shameless
book pitch out of the way (and with an open access final draft of the
book available
here), let me suggest what the recognition of this right to knowledge might mean for copyright reform.