McWilliams wasn't the first person to prove that how - to prose about computers could be lively and entertaining rather than dry and technical, but his self - published
books hit bestseller lists, attracted attention from the mainstream press, and converted doubters such as William F, Buckley.
You're a NYT bestselling author — tell us which
book hit the bestseller list first, what number did you hit, and what did you do to celebrate?
So they push and promote and discount and suddenly
their book hits a bestseller list on Kindle, one of a thousand or so such lists covering every tiny area of every tiny genre.
When presented with claims such as Bob's, you should dig a little deeper and see if this is just a sales pitch, or a statement based on experience either working with bestselling authors or having one of
their books hit the bestseller list.
Not exact matches
In his
book, which recently
hit No. 8 on the Los Angeles Times
bestseller list, Britton presents a strong case that Millennials have the power to disrupt everything from business to culture to politics.
His tenth
book, Guerrilla Marketing to Heal the World, was released in April and immediately
hit two
bestseller lists upon its release.
The
book, Hashimoto's The Root Cause, now has over a 1,000 reviews on Amazon and recently
hit the New York Times
Bestseller list.
The reason is that Headstrong just had the huge honor of
hitting the New York Times monthly
bestseller list which is only 10
books that are top in the month and this is in the science category, not the advice category where you normally find health
books.
The
book hit # 1 on Amazon
Bestsellers list in entrepreneurship.
In 2001, Raincoast
Books published Monk's first
book, Weird Sex and Snowshoes: And Other Canadian Film Phenomena, which
hit the Canadian
bestseller list and was adapted to the screen by Omni Film in 2004 under the direction of Jill Sharpe.
I'm one of the rare consultants to help
books hit the New York Times
bestseller list three different ways, including fiction, non-fiction, and backlist.
An author who finds an agent and a publisher quickly and when her
book debuts it
hits # 1 on the NY Times
Bestseller List and then gets turned into a movie and she becomes an overnight success story.
As a result, Rob's expertise helped Lysa's next
book, Made to Crave,
hit the New York Times
bestseller list for over 25 weeks, reach # 7 on Amazon, and sell over 200,000 copies in the first nine months.
Which leaves bookstores: but bookstores won't order and stock your
book unless you're selling a lot of copies and
hitting bestseller lists.
Do you ever dream of publishing a
book that
hits The New York Times
bestseller list?
Jill Marsal: Our most recent big success in this area was J. Lynn, who self - published through our agency and
hit # 1 on the New York Times e-books
bestseller list for her
book Wait for You.
Terry Pratchett is a household name in England where the
books in his satirical Discworld series for adults consistently
hit the
bestseller lists.
She's an author who has been providing an escape for readers for over 40 years and all of her 29
books have
hit the New York Times
Bestsellers list.
But with indie publishing running so much of the industry now, the playing field is really evened out and a lot of the big mojo that used to
hit the
bestseller lists is being seen in fiction — which often doesn't report to these
lists, or authors are selling lots of copies of all of their
books, as opposed to one, singular title.
I've never
hit the NYT or USA Today
bestseller lists, but my last three
books have been lead titles for my publisher.
He is the author of the Pax Humana Saga and The Legacy Fleet Trilogy and has
hit the USA Today
Bestsellers list, as well as selling a lot of
books through Amazon in the last year.
To
hit a
bestseller list means that your
book has sold enough copies in a single weekly period to win it a spot.
Independently published
books have the potential to affect the
bestseller lists, especially if they
hit big numbers.
Indie authors» # 1
book promotion strategy has been ads +
list trades to spike rank and
hit bestsellers lists — these are the most effective strategies and that's why I recommend them.
In fact, many
books that «
hit a
list» are never viewed by consumers; they land on one or more
bestseller lists, stay for a week or so, and then vanish.
Now understand, I had a
book hit # 1 on the electronic
bestseller list done by Peanut Press in 2000 and even have an award on my shelf proving it.
He's helped numerous
books hit the New York Times
bestseller list and worked with many well - known authors, such as Dan Pink, Dan and Chip Heath, Charles Duhigg, Pamela Slim, and Hugh Howey.
Let's be clear about this, by «
bestseller» we don't mean a
book that
hits the top of the free downloads
list or a
book that reaches the # 1 spot in a category for a few hours or maybe, even a couple of days.
He's helped
books hit the New York Times
bestseller list in several different categories.
Credit where due, though, while not nearly as humble as Richard Nash's candid take on Cursor's shortcomings, Godin does a nice job of offering highlights, and lowlights, of each of The Domino Project's
books at Squidoo, including the interesting explanation of his disappointment in We Are All Weird: «This one
hit the
bestseller list the first day (I think it went to # 9 overall) but it ultimately disappointed me.
With my first
book, Beyond Justice, in October of 2010 my work started winning awards and
hitting bestseller lists.
«Once we
hit the New York Times
bestseller list, the nibbles we'd had on our
books became more serious,» said Holder in an e-mail interview.
«Writing the next great
book is always the most important thing you can do for your career, whether you are just starting out or consistently
hit the NYT
bestseller list.
It feels like the type of
book that will soar by word of mouth from those who have read this until it
hits the NYTimes
bestseller list.
Full of the homey recipes, beautiful photography and goofy humor found on her site, the
book became an instant
hit: the week of November 6, the
book was # 1 on the New York Times
bestseller list in the Hardcover Advice category.
In addition to top rankings on several
bestseller lists, the children's
book depicting Colton's trip, «Heaven Is for Real for Kids,» has
hit a new benchmark: # 1 on the children's picture
books list of the New York -LSB-...]
How ClickHole Became the Best Thing on the Internet and a Rhubarb Gin Cocktail How to
Hit the New York Times
Bestseller List and Orechiette with Sausage & Spinach How Should Authors Tell Fans About Their
Book?
Book Hits New York Times, Wall Street Journal & USA Today
Bestseller list in 2 Weeks with No Advertising - With the precision of a military operation, Bryan and Jeffrey Eisenberg launched their new title Call to Action.
Scott Waxman
hit the New York Times
bestseller list this summer with football coach Mike Leach's Swing Your Sword, published by Waxman's Diversion
Books.
-LSB-...] The Creative Penn — «How To
Hit The USA Today
Bestseller List As A Single Author With Ad Stacking» Again, another article that isn't solely talking about Facebook Ads but talks about the use of multiple outlets to during a promotion period to sell
books.
One of my
books was in a box - set that
hit the New York Times and USA Today
bestseller lists in March, and I have my first traditional deal with Ullstein - Midnight, a German imprint, for Desecration - Verletzung.
Rob Eagar has coached over 450 authors and helped
books hit the New York Times
bestseller list three different ways, including fiction, non-fiction, and backlist.
One has to bank on the PB / MG / CB winning awards or
hitting bestsellers lists like our
book WONDER by R.J. Palacio has done for Knopf.
Within just a few days of implementing some of these tricks, one of Shelley's
books hit # 1 on the Kindle
bestseller list for its category!
To wrap up my year, I was on the cover of The Wall Street Journal and in The Times, The Chicago Tribune, Forbes, and a host of others at the top of the year, have sold nearly a million
books now (not counting my co-authored tomes), released my co-authored novel with Clive Cussler in Sept. and
hit # 2 on the NYT
Bestseller List with it, sold foreign rights to Germany, Bulgaria, and the Czech Republic, have a half dozen name production companies nosing around JET and my Assassin series, have a wonderful agent who has forgotten more than I'll ever know about the biz, and have generally had a nice run of it.
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Like Kaplan's
book, HUNTER also
hit the «Top 10» of the Wall Street Journal
bestseller list, and it also soared to near the very pinnacle of the Kindle
bestseller list.
Resurrected as an eBook in 2013, when it once again
hit the
bestseller list, the
book is now being offered in a new paperback edition.
Andrea Kane's newest
book (and the first in her exciting new forensic series), The Girl Who Disappeared Twice, was on the NYT
bestseller list within a week of
hitting bookshelves.
A contributing writer for the Nation magazine, Smith is already drawing comparisons to Ta - Nehisi Coates, whose memoir, Between the World and Me,
hit bestseller lists last summer and won a National
Book Award.