Sentences with phrase «do something good for authors»

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And ideally would get less than $ 15M per — but I am predicting a future that is authored by the idiots in the front office — so I expect his deal with look something like $ 19M — $ 18M — $ 17M — my hope is that they don't throw in the fourth season at $ 20M and / or they don't match some nonsense max contract from Brooklyn (or whoever)... as I note, I see Lavine is a net negative player who could put up impressive numbers on a bad team — good for the tank.

Author Will Richardson said it well, «' Personalized «learning is something that we do to kids; «personal «learning is something they do for themselves.»

One of the best things an author can do to market their book and generate publicity for it, particularly if it is self - published, is to tie the book into something in the news.

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) something we're really good at and do for not only our own websites (Sanfranciscobookreview.com, Tulsa Book Review, Seattle Book Review, and kidsbookbuzz.com), but also for a few author clients, such as Kevin Christofora, and even (surprisingly) non-book-related clients, such as Locus Technologies.

Instead of looking for a literary agent the way that every other author does (because they don't know any better), it's time for you to do something different.

That does everyone good — other author gets a boost, my readers get something they like (they can't spend all their time just waiting for my next release), and I gain a bit of additional reader trust so they're more likely to stay with me.

Reading has always been a great education — as well as a great enjoyment — for me because authors didn't undersell my ability to pick up new information from context or look something up.

But I think maybe the ebook is something that publishers have shied away from a little bit and don't quite know what to do with, so I think that for agents, helping the author with that is a good opportunity.

For those doing really really well, it's great, but mass bestsellerdom is something that only a few authors can attain.

Therefore I believe the route I am writing about here is mainly for translators who are also promoting something else that fits, like similar books or services, but if they do, I see no reason why they shouldn't do it, and in my opinion it would even make more sense if translators approach authors than authors approaching translators — not just when it comes to retrieving rights but translating books in the first place, because they know best what kind of books they think they can successfully promote themselves.

Mark Coker, CEO and founder of the hugely successful ebook distribution platform Smashwords, wrote a blog poston how the sales figures for an indie author versus those of a traditionally published author can demonstrate something that not many in the industry know: a traditional publishing deal might actually do more harm than good for an author.

This ups it, but for the better, because the current payout is reasonable, meaning that if readers plow through the books (and I've done my job as an author and written something compelling enough to make them want to), I make as much as a sale.

And like many authors, I'm also very good at telling myself this isn't a productive day, or I'll just go do something else while I'm waiting for the Muse to return.

But I digress (something I seem to do a lot around you people), my point is do these dark, sexy covers do more harm than good for authors and readers alike.

Its interesting, I do not actually write books or anything like this, but I create content for a small company's website, and do social as well, but the process for creating content, is something I always get help to, by reading professional authors blogs and articles like this one.

They establish such a strong appeal among readers that demand for the book pulls it into the supply chain, and soon enough the author will probably license the book to a larger publisher who is well - placed to exploit that demand, something virtually no small operation can do on its own.

we really do care about the Kindle, want to help raise the quality of Kindle editions, and are good at making even the least well - known books look completely professional — something it's usually very hard for small publishers and authors to afford and nearly impossible for them to figure out on their own.

Just because another author did something that worked well for them does not mean it will work well for you.

I know, I know, as authors we don't want to be accused of doing the formulaic or repeating ourselves, and we often try the new and different, but if you're just trying something new because you feel obligated not to repeat yourself, well... maybe instead, you could put a new spin on some things that are, quite frankly, probably favorite types of stories or characters for you.

When the hugely successful Indian author Amish Tripathi spoke to me in a 45 - minute live Twitter interview for London Book Fair — part of a very interesting «Virtual Stream» that was arranged as a precursor to the Publishing for Digital Minds conference on 13th April in London — he explained that the self - publishing of 5,000 copies of the first book in his Shiva Trilogy wasn't something he set out to do; it was simply the best way he had to draw attention to the work, in cooperation with his agent.