Sentences with phrase «community around your books»

«The second thing I would do is spend more time building a community around my books.

I would advise you to try to build a community around your books and write series of fantasy stories.

· Indie author April Hamilton from Publetariat, reports on the changing nature of the form of the book and building an online community around your book.

BookPulse offers book publishers a comprehensive social marketing platform that enables them to build communities around their books and maintain a direct ongoing relationship with their readers.

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Better World Books started 10 years ago with a campus book drive and since then has grown to be a $ 63 million company that sells books online collected from about 4,000 libraries as well as campus book drives and book drop boxes in communities around the U.S. With each book sold, the company donates another, along with a portion of the sale, to one of its nonprofit literacy partBooks started 10 years ago with a campus book drive and since then has grown to be a $ 63 million company that sells books online collected from about 4,000 libraries as well as campus book drives and book drop boxes in communities around the U.S. With each book sold, the company donates another, along with a portion of the sale, to one of its nonprofit literacy partbooks online collected from about 4,000 libraries as well as campus book drives and book drop boxes in communities around the U.S. With each book sold, the company donates another, along with a portion of the sale, to one of its nonprofit literacy partners.

Blogger and bestselling author Jeff Goins created a Facebook community around the themes he features in his book, The Art of Work.

Cowen described a similar divide in his last book, «Average if Over,» where he talked of communities of underemployed but happy hipsters (think Williamsburg and east Berlin) spreading around the world.

It's almost like, depending on what you're reading or what you collect — whether it's a series of Harry Potter books or a series of Vogue magazines — it creates this sense of community around this history and legacy, and one built on the next.

We do things like take organization - wide coffee breaks where we ask staff to go buy a coffee and ponder a specific question; we hold online book clubs and create communities of shared interests that range from using data tools to vegetarian cooking to working parents; around the holidays we host regional holiday parties and virtual «Holi - DJ» listening parties, where team members swap playlists of their favorite music.

Dreher thus spends much of the remainder of his book visiting Christian communities around the world that have in some fashion exemplified the Benedictine way.

Do a personal or group study around Forgive Us: Confessions of a Compromised Faith by Soong - Chan Rah, Mae Elise Cannon, Lisa Sharon Harper, and Troy Jackson This powerful book provides historical information, reflection, and prayers around Christian complicity in sins against God's creation, indigenous people, African Americans and people of color, women, the LGBTQ community, immigrants, Jews and Muslims.

This book contains not only stories from my own pastoral experience, but lots of quotes, cartoons and reflections all around this topic of visionary thinking and the danger it poses to true church community.

As far as creating opportunities for dialog within your faith communities, I'd recommend starting with a book club, perhaps around a book like Trouble I've Seen by Drew Hart, or The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander, or Assimilate or Go Home by Danielle Mayfield, or Forgive Us by the authors mentioned above — something that's not directly about this election or this presidency, but that addresses issues related to justice.

Of course, we read Scripture together in our churches and work to understand it, but similar practices of reading and discussing other books in our churches and neighborhoods can form and strengthen bonds between us and transform our community and how we live and work together (and interact with other communities, locally and around the globe).

Being a part of a church plant has forced me to confront a vicious cycle in my life, a cycle that goes something like this: 1) I resolve in my head to live like Jesus in community with those around me, 2) I start reading Shane Claiborne books and memorizing the Sermon on the Mount, 3) I get overwhelmed by how impossible it all seems, 4) I get distracted by work and daily tasks, 5) I give up, 6) I feel guilty.

In his new book, Heroes Wanted, Air Force Veteran, former White House Fellow, Vice President of Community Affairs for Chick - fil - A and Executive Director of the Chick - fil - A Foundation Rodney Bullard shares how we can all display everyday heroism in our communities and to those around us.

Accompanying the recipes are Terry's insights about building community around food, along with suggested music tracks from around the world and book recommendations.

The problem with today's mosquito control is that it suffers from too much talking and increasingly relies on «community participation,» which is difficult to sustain, Knols wrote in his book; he scorned Aruba, where during a dengue outbreak schoolchildren were given a note asking their parents to remove mosquito breeding sites around the home.

As I travel around the country, facilitating community conversations about the topics in my book Mind Over Medicine: Scientific Proof That You Can Heal Yourself, many patients have expressed frustration with their doctors, claiming that they feel unheard.

As I travel around the country, facilitating community conversations about the topics in my book Mind Over Medicine: Scientific Proof That You Can...

Zen Camera by David Ulrich — Book Review For the past eight years, I've been part of an international community of bloggers who gather each week at Wordless Wednesday memes around the world to share their love of photography and provide a glimpse into their lives.

«Harry Potter fandom» refers to the community of fans of the Harry Potter books and movies who participate in entertainment activities that revolve around the series...

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Because (1) home video is killing 16 mm exhibition and all the film communities and programming that revolved around it, and (2) modern marketing techniques have consolidated exhibition patterns, so that movies can be block - booked onto thousand s of screens at once and sold in a media blitz.

It might seem odd to the uninitiated, releasing a book in 2016 which is all about a game released in 2011, but that's only because those same uninitiated likely aren't aware of the massive fan community which has grown around the Souls series, or of the staggering number of players who still play the original Dark Souls to this day (yours truly among them).

Now, Students Helping Students is a growing movement that encourages students around the world to take action in their communities, organize fundraisers at their schools, and learn about the inequities of a world where access to education — or even to something as fundamental as books — is not a given.

The kids sat around like primary school again doing storytime, and they explored some really key themes about community, bullying, and discrimination within those books.»

The film, book, and educational community screenings all around the country are part of a larger and exciting movement.

These can be set up to allow parents to share information around literacy, such as engaging books for children of a certain age and knowledge of literacy events taking place in the community.

The most obvious are those described by John Seely Brown in his book, A New Culture of Learning, where he outlines how the WoW meta - game (the on - line communities that have sprung up around this game played by millions) causes players to participate in ways that make them supremely skilled at modern Internet information skills: finding, qualifying and synthesizing information; contributing in participative communities; researching specific topics; and participating in geographically dispersed communities of practice.

Local / Community Resources Scroll down the page for an archive of One Book Projects around the nation.

We are looking for teacher writers, book reviewers, interviewees — we intend to build a community around this newly relaunched site.

«We read books and stories on how people celebrate special days in their communities and with their families, and we exchange information on celebrations with key pals from around the world.

Organized around six core principles, the book shows how «networked improvement communities» can bring together researchers and practitioners to accelerate learning in key areas of education.

Promote your book using your best energy and time — evaluate how best to spend the energy and time you have — do you have enough to visit bookstores around the country for a couple of months or your own community for a day, spend an hour each day on social media connecting around the world with book bloggers, librarians, other authors and readers from your PJs in your house?

Bookstores are also communities where readers naturally congregate, discover new books, and connect around content.

Contrary to most branches of the book and publishing industry, which have remained focused on content distribution, we believe that filtering content, linking relevant contexts, creating a high - quality reading experience, and engendering an active community around texts are the true added values a reading platform should be able to deliver.

Since I'm donating 100 % of the proceeds from the book to Huntington's disease organizations around the world, the HD community has been very supportive, and I will continue to connect with them for years to come.

The list is broken up into the Basics, Resources (Around the Web, Books, Community, Conferences, Ebook Retailer Specs, Podcasts, Special Topic: Regular Expressions), Tools (Creating EPUB, Creating Additional Formats, Unzipping and Zipping, Editing, Validation, Conversion: Kindle Format), and Quality Assurance.

I have a hunch, though, that some kind of screening process will evolve among book reviewers, perhaps around some version of nepotism / networking — either where outlets within certain «elite» lit communities will begin reviewing talented self - published people who are also connected with the same communities — or sufficient numbers of intrepid bloggers will have the tenacity to weed through the jungle and sniff out the good stuff to review, creating a critical mass of well - reviewed, non-tradionally published authors.

By building genuine, meaningful relationships with these individuals and contributing valuable insight to their community, they're going to be far more likely to review your book and build some buzz around your launch.

I don't see online communities growing up around literary authors and books in quite the same way I see it happening for genre fiction and fan fiction.

More than 400 publishers and 6,000 creators from major publishers such as Image Comics and Chronicle Books, to indie creators from around the globe, use Graphicly's platform to deliver and promote compelling stories and activate consumers with community and content.

O'Reilly also presented a keynote earlier in the conference on book discovery, and he holds that one of the largest factors in book promotion is still the sense of community that readers have around a particular title or author.

«Having started a literary agency on my own in 1994, the Frankfurt Book Fair, and especially its Agents Rights Centre, was an essential place to build a community around Paulo Coelho, which helped him become one of the most relevant and admired authors worldwide.

It should be to use the book to promote a brand or community around the topic the book is on.

Literaturschock.de or «Literature shock» is a community all around books that features reviews, author interviews and other blog articles as well as forums where readers can exchange their thoughts.

Chapter Two, Mom's Sex Book, dissects the challenges of writing about sex while raising kids, and Chapter Three, Shifting Identity, examines our changing cultural landscape around the LGBTQ community.

And if your book falls into a particular genre, word of mouth can also get around to the community that loves that particular genre — your potential readers — through online forums and the comment sections of popular web pages.

So, if you're going to walk into a Barnes and Noble or a BAM, and you want to try to get your book on that local author's table, show to them that they have people around them in their community, again, the readers that Barnes and Noble themselves are trying to connect to, and make that connection for them.