Sentences with phrase «crappy books»

There're still a lot of crappy books in the indie - world, but there's some really good ones, too.

Of course you can't just write crappy books and expect to make money.

Bad covers, bad editing and generally crappy books don't sell.

A hundred million more crappy books could be released tomorrow and they would also sink without a trace.

Self - pub books, for valid reasons, have a stigma, and reviewers don't want to waste their time reading crappy books.

Sadly, a lot of crappy books have 30 or 40 5 - star ratings whereas my books have a few.

How many crappy books have you read in the past decade that were not self - published?

Yes, there are a lot of crappy books out there, being downloaded by readers who end up bitching because they got a book for free (or paid for it, depending on the user.

There is not one but two crappy books on Christian sex being pimped here repeatedly.

Even worse, if they see the Awesome Indies seal of approval on a bunch of crappy looking covers, they are going to start associating the seal with crappy books of low or questionable quality.

Regardless of how introverted you are, regardless of how many crappy book trailers you've seen (don't do those), video is here to stay, and the sooner you embrace it, the better.

I devoted an entire series of videos based on crappy book covers.

It's nice to support the success of other authors in your genre; you want to be careful not to share crappy books (and I'd never ask anyone to do that: I'll provide a full copy or at least excerpts of the book so they can check it out before committing).

Crappy books tend to fail, so don't worry yourself so much about it.

Because of the ease of getting on Amazon, there are plenty of crappy books available.

The intention Awesome Indies is noble: lots of people are publishing crappy books.

In short, bloggers everywhere are pulling their hair out because their inboxes are flooded with crappy books they don't want to read.

The can't because Allah supposed wrote the Quran (a crappy book that wouldn't get a C in literature class), so Muslims have no way to change what «god» tells them to do, which is Kill the infidels.

Yes, not everyone is going to buy in immediately due to the years of resentment Roman has from years of crappy booking, but even as a Heel this is important to the development of a character.

You might argue that this is because so many people throw their crappy books up on Amazon without doing all the work you recommend, and that if one does all that work, sales are more likely.

You don't want to say, all those other books are crap, but mine is good, and then try to educate readers about why they should like your books more than those crappy books.

Smashwords is well known in the publishing community for their crappy books, the vast majority of them have never even been read.

In fact, most «authors» on Amazon are really actually internet marketers who outsource hundreds of crappy books and try to cheat readers out of their money.

I wish the sample feature was required for e-books, I could have saved myself a little book heartbreak and virtually throwing a crappy book against the wall.

Kindle readers can easily return a book so you can't just hook them with a catchy title and then give them a crappy book.

Sometimes we get shocked when a crappy book (say, for example, Fifty Shades of Gray) suddenly starts showing up everywhere — but it showed up because, in spite of the boring story and fourth - grade writing ability, the book SOLD.

Had I been able to self - publish so easily, and had so many people been telling me what a great idea it was to skip the commercial publishers and go straight to e-publishing... well, it would mean I had some crappy books out there with my name on them, and that thought makes me cringe.

If it's obviously a crappy book, and no reasonable person would buy it, but it keeps sticking at the top of the Amazon charts — for months — it seems reasonable to guess that spammy tactics must have been used.

Often, the simple publishing package of $ 2K or so * might * be reasonable, but since they're farming out the book design, most of these hybrid publishers will give you crappy book design (which is the MOST important thing to get right!).

As an agent, I read an unbelievable amount of crappy books.

A As an agent, I read an unbelievable amount of crappy books.

If you want to avoid the pitfalls of using vanity publishers who charge large sums of money only to give you a crappy book product that won't sell, and empower yourself to self - publish, then get started on the right foot with Self - Publish the Smart Way.

Avoid the pitfalls and creating a crappy book product that won't sell, and get started on the right foot with Self - Publish the Smart Way.

But the prevailing observation I had was that kids are a lot of work and the notion of being on a New York deadline while sleep deprived, nursing, and trying to juggle babies and evil day jobs was a recipe for disaster and a crappy book.

Or throw a bit stink about pirates and giving away your crappy books and sell NOTHING.

What I meant is that readers aren't seeing those crappy books period anymore, because the Amazon, etc. ranking algorithms bury them so deep so fast.

Crappy books, unprofessional emails, people who don't listen to the (already not that strict) submission guidelines — and they outnumber the good books 10:1.

Oh - Oh... Avoid the Amazon Warning and Possible Slap Down for a Crappy Book Amazon has been the self and indie publisher's best friend.

If you wrote a crappy book, with a bad cover and a passive blurb and opening sample, no amount of shouting into the noise will help your book sell.

And trust me, they've tried to create bestsellers with ads and hype and lots of promotion, only to have the crappy book sit in huge stacks and never sell.

It's kind of odd that Strauss came out of hibernation (i.e., writing another crappy book) to attack ABP.