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I have read so many stories of debut authors getting offers within a month of submission.

Reputation Books sounds like an innovative way to help debut authors get their books out in the world.

Not exact matches

The debut from author Santi Balmes and illustrator Lyona tells the stories of two little girls — a human named Martina and a monster named Anitram (get it?!)

Although the film's title and a minimal amount of story come from author Michael Faber's 2000 novel, this is Glazer's most hyperstylized and unnerving film since Ben Kingsley got on the wrong side of Ray Winstone and Amanda Redman in the director's utterly self - assured feature debut, Sexy Beast.

Complete List of NAACP Image Award Winners Film Categories Best Picture - «The Secret Life of Bees» Best Director - Gina Prince - Bythewood, «The Secret Life of Bees» Best Actor - Will Smith, «Seven Pounds» Best Actress - Rosario Dawson, «Seven Pounds Supporting Actor - Columbus Short, «Cadillac Records» Supporting Actress - Taraji P. Henson, «The Curious Case of Benjamin Button» Independent Film - «Slumdog Millionaire» Documentary - «The Black List» Foreign Film - «The Class» Best Screenplay - Jenny Lumet, «Rachel Getting Married» Television Categories Best Comedy Series - «Tyler Perry's House of Payne» Best Actor in a Comedy Series - LaVan Davis, «Tyler Perry's House of Payne» Best Actress in a Comedy Series - Tracee Ellis Ross, «Girlfriends» Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series - Lance Gross, «Tyler Perry's House of Payne» Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series - Keshia Knight Pulliam, «Tyler Perry's House of Payne» Best Dramatic Series - «Grey's Anatomy» Best Actor in a Dramatic Series - Hill Harper, «CSI: NY» Best Actress in a Dramatic Series - Chandra Wilson, «Grey's Anatomy» Supporting Actor in a Dramatic Series - Taye Diggs, «Private Practice» Supporting Actress in a Dramatic Series - Angela Bassett, «ER» Made - for - TV Movie, Miniseries or Dramatic Special - «A Raisin in The Sun» Best Actor in a Made - for - TV Movie, Miniseries or Dramatic Special - Sean Combs, «A Raisin in the Sun» Best Actress in a Made - for - TV Movie, Miniseries or Dramatic Special - Phylicia Rashad, «A Raisin in the Sun» Best Actor in a Sopa Opera - Bryton McClure, «The Young and the Restless» Best Actress in a Sopa Opera - Debbi Morgan, «All My Children» Best Director in a Dramatic Series - Ernest Dickerson, «Lincoln Heights - The Day Before Tomorrow» Best Director in a Comedy Series - Kevin Sullivan, «30 Rock - MILF Island» Best Screenplay for a Dramatic Series - Shonda Rhimes, «Grey's Anatomy: Freedom Part 1 & 2» Best Screenplay for a Comedy Series - Erica D. Montolfo, «The Game: White Coats and White Lies» News / Information Series or Special - «In Conversation: Michelle Obama Interview» Talk Series - «The View» Reality Series - «American Idol 7» Variety Series or Special - «An Evening of Stars: Tribute to Smokey Robinson» Children's Program - «Dora The Explorer» Best Performance in a Children's Series or Special - Keke Palmer, «True Jackson» Music Categories Best Male Artist - Jamie Foxx Best Female Artist - Beyonce» Best New Artist - Jennifer Hudson Best Duo, Group or Collaboration - Jennifer Hudson, featuring Fantasia - «I'm His Only Woman» Best Jazz Artist - Natalie Cole - «Still Unforgettable» Best Gospel Artist - Mary Mary Best World Music Album - Cheryl Keyes - «Let Me Take You There» Best Music Video - «Yes We Can» - Will.i.am Best Song - «Yes We Can» - Will.i.am Best Album - Jennifer Hudson - «Jennifer Hudson» Literary Categories Fiction - «In the Night of the Heat: A Tennyson Hardwick Novel,» Blair Underwood, Tananarive Due, Steven Barnes Nonfiction - «Letter to My Daughter,» Maya Angelou Debut Author - «Barack, Race, and the Media: Drawing My Own Conclusion,» David Glenn Brown Biography / Autobiography - «The Legs are the Last to Go,» Diahann Carroll Instructional - «32 Ways to Be a Champion in Business,» Earvin «Magic» Johnson Poetry - «Hip Hop Speaks to Children: A Celebration of «Poetry With a Beat»» Nikki Giovanni Children - «Barack Obama: Son of Promise, Child of Hope,» Nikki Grimes (illustrator - Bryan Collier) Youth / Teens - «Letters to a Young Sister: Define Your Destiny,» Hill Harper

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.

Not everyone blows up overnight with their debut novel, and most authors don't get that response, they tend to get discouraged.

The Millions has asked some of the year's biggest authors — from debut novelist Tom Rachman to old favorites (who have gotten a ton of recent acclaim) Emma Donoghue and Lionel Shriver — what they've read in 2010.

As a debut author I recommend this site to anyone who wants to get their book out there and noticed.»

As we get closer and closer to the tipping point and less books are bought through physical places where debut authors find the bulk of their readers is going to change.

When that happens, I am very much afraid that traditionally published midlisters and debut authors are going to get screwed.

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In fact, one of the reasons I moved into self - publishing is because it became very difficult to get a publishing contract for a debut author, no matter how good they were.

But, after she left the podium (to widespread applause), what likely lingered in many minds is the candid picture she'd painted of one of publishing's growing digital nightmares: debut authors may be understanding about the slow process to market and put up with it, said Smart, «but as they build reader communities around them they will get really, really pissed off and go and self - publish.»

Because we can only guess how exciting it is for a debut author to get such widespread recognition, we asked Hoffman to comment on the buzz for her book:

It's true that the established gatekeepers are still scouring self - published books for debut authors, but you won't get their attention until you've sold not hundreds but thousands of books on your own.

[8] Debut Author Jennifer McGowan: How Not to Get Off Track: http://romanceuniversity.org/2013/05/08/debut-author-jennifer-mcgowan-how-not-to-get-off-track/

Little old me, with my debut release, gets to be on a panel with Erica O'Rourke, paranormal and fantasy YA author of the fantastic Torn series and Dissonance trilogy, and Clara Kensie, winner of RWA's Best First Book Rita award in 2015 for her YA book Run to You, and author J. Leigh Bailey who wrote an LGBTQ New Adult series for Carina Press and has a forthcoming YA Guyliner with Spencer Hill Press.

Money can only do so much for debut authors; throw more and you don't necessarily get better results.

Most of you know, my debut young adult novel Alterations will be released in 2016 by Bloomsbury Spark, I've been getting to know Sparks fellow authors and have some updates!

Why did poor debut author Robert Gilbraith not get the attention that literary icon JK Rowling is getting?

They Say Blue by Jillian Tamaki Abrams • March 13 I'm a huge fan of This One Summer, so I can't wait to get my hands on Caldecott Honor - winning author - illustrator Tamaki's debut picture book, which follows a young girl as she explores the color found all around her.

Unfortunately, the sweetest deals are going to existing bestsellers, which means the rich get richer while debuting authors are left behind.

Debut authors Gill Hornby and Lacy Crawford deliver a welcome dose of playground escapism.British author Gill Hornby got the idea for her first novel, The Hive, while reading Rosalind Wiseman's Queen Bees...

This chart, as well as the churn chart, got us wondering how much of traditionally - published author revenue was coming from new releases by long - tenured authors, and how much of it was coming from debut authors.

There's just something about brand new literary debuts that I love: getting to know a writer at the start of their career, enjoying the fresh voice of a brand new talent, getting to be one of the first people to tell my fellow book loving friends about the new author they just have to check out.

Derek, in his gentle and knowledgable way, tried to talk me out of displaying the book award badge, (at least not so prominantly) but I, as a debut author in need of affirmation of the quality of my novel, let ego get in the way and I had him put it on the cover anyway.

Are you a debut author or writer looking to get published?

Get on the course sign up list now for the launch of my Create Your Awesome Community For Debut Authors program.

The problem with publishing today, though, is that its driven by greed, and that's driving debut writers to self - publish rather than risk getting rejected because a) they didn't walk into the toilet stall of their favorite author and politely ask for a blurb, or b) they discovered they'd rather spend what free time they have writing, and not marketing or frequenting social venues to make connections that may or may not pan out.

The economic downturn, the layoffs, the explosion of new writers trying to get a foothold — all of that has made getting a traditional deal MUCH more difficult than in the past, especially for debut authors.

Adams: We publish a lot of debut authors, preferring to take promising but unproven writers and attempt to launch their careers, rather than getting into a bidding war for the next bestseller from an already established author.

Plus, I've got word - of - mouth advice from other authors (including established authors like Liane Moriarty, Charlotte Wood, Michael Robotham, and Favel Parrett, as well as debut authors, who are still juggling writing, publicity, family, friends and, often, fulltime jobs) on how they do it.

Most of the debut authors I've known over the last few years got a publishing deal on the strength of a writing sample, not a whole manuscript.

In fact, she is a debut author who wants to get the best deal for her book from start to finish.

Giving new and debut authors an opportunity to have their work reviewed and published, Amazon's Breakthrough Novel Contest gets thousands of submissions.

However, some debut authors have gotten some great publicity by giving their novel away, including Jim Rubart on his novel Rooms which hit the NYT Bestseller List.

I would also love to know if there are any stats anywhere that show what % of trad published debut authors go on to get another deal after their initial deal.

That's still a really nice advance in these days where debut authors often don't get any advance at all, but I'm not sure I'd have had the courage to leave behind a regular paycheck if I didn't know that a full year's salary was in the bank.

It can be very hard to get an agent interested in your manuscript, especially if you're a debut author.

Midlist, debut, and small - pressed authors get only a little help from their publishers.

As a debut author (August 1st) getting ready to dive into the fray, I've been lurking around the book blogger community, trying to get to know the players, find sites that are a match for the book I've written, etc. and what has amazed me is the WORK these people put into what they do as a hobby / for fun.

This morning over at Kirkus, I've got three new picture books from debut author - illustrators.

Tell me, please, how a self published debut author with a poorly edited book gets 1000 5 star reviews, then there are 1 - 200 1 2 or 3 star reviews with verified purchase classification who feel they were duped by all those bogus 5 - star reviews.

The Made in L.A. indie author collective debuted at the Los Angeles Festival of Books, and we are just getting started.

It's Not the Hottest Genre, So How Do Debut Historical Romance Authors Get Six - Figure Deals?

Like you, I tried traditional, got an agent, and got as far as second reads with two NY publishers, but it came down to a bad combo: debut author PLUS non-hot genre.

For one thing, readers always have the opportunity to read debut authors, though they may never consider them and they may choose not to read them, given that readers» time is limited and the chances of getting a bad book are high, it's understandable that they often pick authors they already know and like.

I got some this week from Jenny Milchman, the talented and persistent author of the debut suspense novel Cover of Snow.