Sentences with phrase «fans out of your readers»

Make fans out of your readers with book ideas that sparkle and descriptions that keep them turning the pages.

However, I've also made plenty of fans out of readers who were intrigued by all the bitching that gets done over your average «Liz Book.»

Not exact matches

I can't be silent out of fear of offending someone or losing fans or readers.

Professional broadcasters (journalists, pundits, analysts) are supposed to take the emotion of being a fan out of the debate, to provide a clearer analysis free of bias and predispositions, but increasingly this doesn't appear to be the case — they prefer instead to go for the extremes, for the Talksport approach of riling up their readers and listeners and allowing their agendas to cloud how they deduce what is in front of them.

If you were a TLT Facebook fan, you would also have gotten tons of great tips for nutritious - but - not - too - messy car snacks for kids (thanks, readers, for responding), some good school food news out of Minnesota, news about the pending school food regulations, and a cute photo of a TLT reader holding her very own vintage TLT lunch tray, won in a recent giveaway.

I don't know about fans and readers out there, but Kiera Knightley will forever be, to me, the elegantly slender girl from Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean movies who had that oddly fun chemistry wit...

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I used to be a big fan of Carly's as well, but as another commenter mentioned, she just doesn't seem to have «grown up» — too often I read her posts and feel that she is out of touch (and even more often, I read her responses to readers and feel she lacks poise).

I'm reaching out to a few of my favourite friends, fans, readers and social media followers with a special invitation to an exciting, one - of - a-kind event...

It would be great if you could do something like post a section listing classic directors and their films, and perhaps point out how these films have influenced or directly inspired films your readers are fans of.

While I wouldn't mind playing with some of these side characters and superfluous plotlines in a video game, as an adaptation of a beloved work that has enchanted many millions of readers, young and old, I'm left longing for a different kind of fan film — the inevitable one in which someone edits out all of the stuff not from the writings of Tolkien — and makes it the movie it always should have been from inception.

We've watched some of our most reluctant readers — Spanish middle - school boys who happened to be big soccer fans — start out slowly reading sports articles on eBook screens and grow into voracious readers of print books on every imaginable subject.»

Obviously, the presence of some cars on the following list will probably anger a good amount of keyboard warriors and / or diehard fans out there, but that usually goes with the territory and you can't please every reader every time.

The program allowed readers to try us out for free and, if we did our jobs right, won us fans who would then go out and buy our titles instead of borrowing them.

However, Hallett points out that despite the income potential of the fans and the bestseller status of the female writers of the genre, it continues to be an overwhelmingly male population of critics who callously dismiss the genre and its readers.

Having a lot of books out there not only has more ways for readers to find you, it also lets them binge - read once they do find you — which creates fans, and plenty of royalties.

Data analytics is a great way to track the behaviors of readers, to find out where their interests lie (Are they fans of movies or TV shows with marketable themes?

The verdict is still out over the value of permafree titles, but I welcome any way people can get into my funnel, even if some of them never turn into true fans or buying readers.

«My fans have been clamoring for the return of Dunk & Egg ever since the graphic novels of «The Hedge Knight» and «The Sworn Sword» went out of print several years ago,» said author George R.R. Martin, «so I am delighted to announce that Jet City Comics is bringing them back — newly formatted for digital readers, and in paper for those who still prefer the traditional formats.

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I am a big fan of this as well because it gets you out in front of lots of potential readers.

Indie authors in particular need a «tribe» behind them — a support team of fans of their work who want to help the author get out the word to readers everywhere.

I know at least a couple library systems across the US from me ordered some of my own books, for example, because I've had readers tell me they found my books in their local library, liked the covers, and tried them out and are now fans who are going on to buy more of my work.

Commentary Jed Alexander argues that Archie comics are important and deserve more attention from comics fans, pointing out that the digests outsell a lot of single - issue comics and that because they are widely available, they draw in casual readers as opposed to the serious fans who frequent comics shops.

Kaufman spoke about Copia's global expansion into Australia and Spain — and alluded to some big news that will hopefully be launched in time for next month's O'Reilly Media Tools of Change publishing event — as well the popular reception of the annotation feature that lets authors enter the discussion and post commentary inside the pages of readers» books, almost creating a «director's cut» out of books, much the way that JK Rowling has granted her fans insider access into the creation of the Harry Potter books by adding additional notes and comments on the series.

Science and academic books seem to be an appropriate recipient of the features that enhanced ebooks can offer, while fiction fans pointed out that the writing itself should carry the reader into the setting instead of relying on immersive graphics or embedded soundtracks.

And while frequent - flier questions aren't always the same types of things I'd ask an author — I'd rather hear what earned her the most time - outs as a kid than where her ideas come from (mostly because I'm pretty sure we all snag ideas the same way, from that guy on the corner selling them out of his van)-- I guess I can understand the curiosity of a reader, a bookstore patron... or a stranger I've cornered at a party who I'm pretending is my number one fan.

After years of radio silence for her fans, admittedly while she collaborates on some of the most highly innovative movies to come out of a book series, especially one aimed at middle grade readers, J.K Rowling is unleashing something new.

I am an avid fan of beta readers, and there are so many people out there who just plain refuse to get people to read their work.

Skip out on some of these basics and it doesn't matter how many clever design details you include, you'll never turn casual readers into constant fans.

Several months ago, GoodEReader reported on a few of the initiatives that Scholastic was launching in order to keep its content current in the minds of children's and young adult readers, including the pending incorporation of ebooks into the book club offerings and the additional 39 Clues content that came out in time for fans of the series to need reading entertainment over the December school holidays.

I am a big fan of Kobo, already have the wifi reader and bought the Vox when it came out.

Rich in the compassion and insight into flawed human nature that has become a Lippman trademark while telling an absolutely gripping story, The Most Dangerous Thing will not be confined by genre restrictions, reaching out instead to captive a wide, diverse audience, from Harlan Coben and Kate Atkinson fans to readers of Jodi Picoult and Kathryn Stockett.

One note: Whereas I do think that Heading Out to Wonderful will appeal to fans of A Reliable Wife, I also know that some readers found Goolrick's debut novel to be a bit sensational.

Whether you're an avid ereader fan looking to upgrade, or a traditional reader who's thinking of dipping their toes in the e-ink and can afford the best experience out there, the Kindle Oasis is aimed at you.

There's a lot of talk about how there's more competition in the Kindle Store and elsewhere these days — more independent authors publishing and also more Big 6 backlist books being put out in ebook form, but if you can cultivate a fan base that enjoys your work and will try a lot of what you write, then you can do this for a living, providing you're able to publish regularly and keep getting more stuff out there for readers to consume.

For many years, readers of American comics have had the ritual of going to the comics shop on Wednesdays, the day new comics come out, not just to buy comics but also to meet up with other fans.

One of the more innovative concepts that has grown out of digital publishing is the concept of crowd - sourced «ungluing,» a way to allow reader fans to remove the copyright status of books by pledging funding to buy the rights from the author under Creative Commons status of copyright law.

And if the reader fans are also any indication of the willingness of consumers to branch out and take a risk on self - published authors, the shift may go even further than a handful of spots peppered throughout the list.

That the outlook is pretty hopeless in getting noticed among the 3 million self - published books coming out this year and next as well, unless you already have a fan base of 50,000 readers.

We've never been fans of Sony's tendency towards proprietary formats and connections, but leaving out this file type is a blunder when previous Sony Reader owners are obvious prospective T1 owners.

I've also tried the Nook and I'm fairly impressed with its most current forms, and I'm a fan of the Sony Reader — though that platform seems to be on its way out.

In the case of independent authors, their cognitive ambition always centers around cooking up good materials to cater to their readers, keep in touch with them and establish a solid fan base, and connect the dots to find out where the industry is heading.

Ultimately, Hedgecock's expects «Fruit Ninja» fans will be drawn to the comic, pointing out that the percentage of «traditional comic book readers» Ape properties attract is pretty small.

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The time he devotes to it makes you wonder, especially since none of his very visible promotion gives readers who aren't already fans any reason to seek out his books.

Another example of such mavens is the reader who hangs out on fan fiction sites.

You'll grow a group of readers who will turn into fans and they'll be the ones bringing up your book when a call is put out for a good read.

But we continue to receive fan letters begging us to continue the series that our publishers abandoned (or to help readers find out of print books... which used to be a rather heartbreaking mission for most of us).

The self - publishing revolution has made it possible for authors to bring their moribund out - of - print titles back to life by repackaging and in some cases revising the contents for major sales to old fans and new readers.