Sentences with phrase «few lucky authors»

Sure, there are a few lucky authors whose writing careers took off the way I'd ignorantly imagined, but most of us must scramble frantically simply to get our books noticed and begin to build a reader base.

Not exact matches

While a lucky few authors are able to correct egregious mistakes like wrong character names or missing paragraphs in later print runs, most of the time, errors remain in the text forever.

We're happy to report that BookPage was one of the lucky few — you can read our Q&A with the author in the September issue.

A recent article in The Guardian by We Need to Talk about Kevin author, Lionel Shriver (who I was lucky enough to meet at a literary festival a few years ago) rightly said: «If all modern literature comes to toe the same goody - goody line, fiction is bound to grow timid, homogeneous, and dreary.»

Before, no one dreamed of becoming a mid-list author because most of them were lucky if they made enough money to pay a few bills.

A few lucky writers will be winning a free stay, but I'm also going to invite some authors to help split the cost.

Gabrielle Zevin may be one of the few authors alive who thanks her lucky stars she hasn't had J.K. Rowling's level of success.

If you are lucky you may stumble on what you need in a few days or weeks, or if you are like me you can spend years attending local author meetings, book publishing meetings, reading everything Google has to offer, and still not have a clear idea of what steps to take to get your book out there.

I was also lucky to have had a few author friends who backed me up saying while I need to agree with those writing loopholes, I needed to find my own ways to fill the gaps rather than take someone else's directions.

Few published authors are lucky enough to have had a totally positive experience with the New York publishing industry.

The seductive narratives of the few fortunate people who have been able to make a living selling e-books have lead to `... thousands of authors who will be lucky if they can give away ten books - a-month at 99 cents each».

Almost every author wants to appear on national TV; a select few are lucky enough to have that opportunity.

A few lucky players will win big but the broader community of authors will lose.

I agree that the problem here is not Amazon, it's that independent authors including myself haven't figured out how to pick up the marketing function that publishers perform for the lucky few writers they can take on.

Most self - published authors are lucky to sell a few hundred books a year, which might allow you to break even after editing, cover design, interior formatting and marketing the book — to add ISBNs to the mix will only increase your money spent up front, which for some can be a hindrance.

Because the author had a few friends at Google, he was able to recover years of precious emails and data, but most of us would not be so lucky.