Sentences with phrase «first audience for my book»

I imagined the first audience for my book being the grown children of divorce; it's aimed at helping them understand and articulate their experience.

Not exact matches

However, I knew that in order for the book to sell well, I needed to grow an audience first.

b) seek professional help to figure out why you have the compulsions in the first place, and develop a strategy to help you replace your unhealthy addictions with healthy habits c) contact a wild - eyed shaman to tell you which parts of his ancient magic book, written primarily for an illiterate, credulous audience, apply best to 21st Century psychological issues.

Dawkins said: «I'm thrilled to see The God Delusion come to life on stage for the first time and for the message of the book to be given a new lease of life in this exciting way, it's going to be a treat for audiences.»

Essentially, it continues the chase after the youth market for reasons first extrapolated in a 1954 Robert Warshow essay on then burgeoning pop culture (specifically comic books) that identified the appearance of «newness» as the basic attraction for a targeted audience.

When I was contacted by someone at iseeme.com the first thing I asked was «do you have a personalized book for twins, or will our twinmom.com audience be expected to have to buy one for each kid?»

The Oxytocin Factor is the first book to reveal the importance of the whole oxytocin system for a general audience.

The books on display represent the history of publishing as well — with Gutenberg's 1439 innovation of the printing press making it possible for a wider audience to read these ideas for the first time.»

In a short book - the first in a series in which National Academy of Science members will describe their science and research for general audiences - the author offers a concise primer on the brain and its development.

Some things that probably factor into the industry's disagreement: Peter Jackson adapted books fifty years old and respected as great literature, the Potter books were being written alongside the first movies; Lord of the Rings centered on adult characters and played to a wider audience with PG - 13 ratings, the first Potter movies were PG, skewed younger, and starred kids (though anyone can see the films matured and so did the fans, many already wrote the series off); finally, where Jackson provided one distinct vision and a cast of respected performers, Potter had a rotating director roster (all of them secondary to Rowling) and limited opportunities for its accomplished actors, giving the brunt of the work to the three kids and spectacle.

Although the novel The Hobbit reads younger than the LOTR epics, this tale (actually the first of three movies based on the slim book) of the hobbit Bilbo Baggins (Martin Freeman) and his adventures with a clutch of dwarfs fighting to regain their kingdom isn't one for junior audiences.

And then, of course, there's the film's eventual premiere, when Wiseau first endures the feeling of having audiences laugh at his work, for which he had bared his soul and burned several million dollars of a fortune whose origins are anybody's guess (although «such nosy person» Sestero's best guess in the book, involving a shady business called Street Fashions USA, isn't even mentioned in the film).

A Wrinkle in Time (Mar. 9th) Make way for the first major - league studio tentpole with a woman of color at the helm, as director Ava DuVernay invites audiences into her singular adaptation of Madeleine L'Engle canonical kids» book.

A mix of Tolkein-esque quest epic and seventies attitude, it was like a PG version of an underground comic book made for the big screen, and was Bakshi's first effort to reach a mainstream audience.

My books are very hardcore, but the movies are adapted for a more mainstream audience and if you loved the tone of the first picture you're going to eat this up with a big, giant spoon.

At a recent roundtable interview, Anderson and production designer Adam Stockhausen talked about how the project first came together, what inspired the story, the influence of Viennese writer Stefan Zweig's work on the multi-layered storytelling approach, their collaboration on the vision for the movie, how they created this rich, lush cinematic world and brought the audience into it, how Anderson cultivated a communal atmosphere on set and made available a large selection of books and films to the cast during production, Stockhausen's favorite day of shooting, and the challenge of using different aspect ratios.

They were the last line of enticement — and sometimes the first — alongside carpet - bombing consumers with coming attractions, movie posters, marquees, publicity stunts, movie program books, and newspaper advertisements for their newest big - screen sensation.With no entertainment websites or blogs available to tease audiences with stills from their films, lobby cards served that purpose for the studio publicity machine.

- Excerpted from the inside cover Sasha and Malia Obama are now 9 and 12, respectively, which actually makes the First Daughters a little older than the 4 - 8 demographic contemplated as the target audience for this children's book designed as a letter to them from their doting dad.

Comments from some recent users of this book should help convince you to buy it: As an advocate of the What Works agenda, I think this book really is a wake - up call A fantastic insight into the potential for using documents in research Nails twenty years of research in twenty minutes Worth every dime Every student in my class has been told to buy this book... and it's easy to see why Shines a great big light on the power of documents in research Surely this is the best book in its field First class I kept referring to this book in my presentation last week and the audience was ecstatic Education research, usually has little effect on me... Until now... This book is formidable Crushes the concept that education research is rubbish... fantastic insight Blows you away with its power and simplicity Huge reality check, senior school managers at good schools tell the truth, other's don't, won't or can't, and their students suffer.

Positive comments from some recent users of this book include: Most schools are full of documents and data... Dr Slater is among the first to show how they can be used to compare what is said on paper and in interviews... The results will shock you... Dr Slater is a successful high school teacher and an award winning author... and here's why... Fantastic little book, punches well above its weight... Makes it seem so simple... the art of the genius... As an advocate of the What Works agenda, I think this book really is a wake - up call... A fantastic insight into the potential for using documents in research... Nails twenty years of research in twenty minutes... Worth every dime... Every student in my class (6th form) has been told to buy this book... and it's easy to see why... Shines a great big light on the power of documents in research... Surely this is the best book in its field... First class... I kept referring to this book in my presentation last week and the audience was ecstatic... Education research, usually has little effect on me... Until now... This book is formidable... Crushes the concept that education research is rubbish... fantastic insight... Blows you away with its power and simplicity... Huge reality check, senior school managers at good schools tell the truth, other's don't, won't or can't, and their students sufirst to show how they can be used to compare what is said on paper and in interviews... The results will shock you... Dr Slater is a successful high school teacher and an award winning author... and here's why... Fantastic little book, punches well above its weight... Makes it seem so simple... the art of the genius... As an advocate of the What Works agenda, I think this book really is a wake - up call... A fantastic insight into the potential for using documents in research... Nails twenty years of research in twenty minutes... Worth every dime... Every student in my class (6th form) has been told to buy this book... and it's easy to see why... Shines a great big light on the power of documents in research... Surely this is the best book in its field... First class... I kept referring to this book in my presentation last week and the audience was ecstatic... Education research, usually has little effect on me... Until now... This book is formidable... Crushes the concept that education research is rubbish... fantastic insight... Blows you away with its power and simplicity... Huge reality check, senior school managers at good schools tell the truth, other's don't, won't or can't, and their students suFirst class... I kept referring to this book in my presentation last week and the audience was ecstatic... Education research, usually has little effect on me... Until now... This book is formidable... Crushes the concept that education research is rubbish... fantastic insight... Blows you away with its power and simplicity... Huge reality check, senior school managers at good schools tell the truth, other's don't, won't or can't, and their students suffer.

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Hildick - Smith, whose New York - based company is a book audience research and pre-publication book testing firm, said that e-book sales peaked in the first quarter of 2014 and are now actually dropping, as evidenced by the results for the quarter ending September 2015.

If you want to increase book sales, grow your number of speaking engagements, and make both your written and spoken messages life - changing for your audience — make Rob the first person you hire.»

-- One webinar a month: what most companies offer — Audience engagement: the most important goal — Global reach: online training goes far beyond the USA — Average length: 1 hour, Average attendance: 28 attendees — Reason for 85 % of webinars: to get new customers — Best organization: first: what the benefit is to the reader, second what the book contains

This program will serve a twofold purpose, first in offering libraries and their patrons even more ebook content for lending programs, and second in terms of helping indie authors in the process of getting their books discovered by a larger public audience.

Not so much if you've only done your first book because it's very difficult to market a first book without a lead on for the audience to carry onto.

Le French Book is a digital - first publisher whose function is to take the French - language bestsellers being written by some of the greatest contemporary writers in France and translate those books for international audiences.

When read from an English / Western perspective there is some justification for this viewpoint, but it should be remembered that the book was not written in a Western language or, in the first instance, for a Western audience, but for a Kenyan audience still familiar with the oral tradition - in Kenya, Wa Thiong «o's works are often read aloud over a period of (many) days.

Lulu.com: How did you first go about finding an audience for your book?

Although it's target audience is very focused, I was amazed at the amount of interest they generated in diverse media that I would have never thought of... They are very nice and comfortable to work with, and they make life easy taking you step by step, which is very helpful, especially for people like me who have not the first clue about marketing a book!

Environmentalist McKibben's 1989 book, The End of Nature, is considered by many to be the first book for a general audience about climate change.

David Ezra Stein, in his first book since winning the Caldecott Honor for Interrupting Chicken, continues to demonstrate incredible versatility in his illustrations while holding firm to his audience: very young readers and listeners.This time Stein tells his story in the form of a letter — a long letter — from Mouserella to her Grandmouse.

This book is a first - class study, well argued and written for a broad audience; it retains its value for understanding al Qaeda in the post-bin Laden era... [T] his book will be the definitive biography for the future.»

Like Rosoff's first book (How I Live Now) Just In Case is ostensibly a book for older teens, but it would be a great pity if this was the only audience to discover it.

But I already had a pretty good idea that I did have an audience out there, so I did a fund - raiser on the blog for my first novel... and now, nine books later, I believe that I have got the hang of it all.

If I'd created a new Facebook page for every book I've written my audience would be divided, and I doubt that someone who liked my first Facebook page would like subsequent pages.

Of course, by the time Amazon started selling books in the UK, the first two Harry Potter novels had already been published, and by the time it really became a market force that even your elderly relatives were ordering from, it's fair to say that a large chunk of its audience for Harry Potter had taken their business elsewhere.

To her surprise, the tree opens up, sending Sadie falling down into the abyss, into a land she's only ever read about — where she must begin a long, terrifying, and heartbreaking journey home.This book is intended for mature audiences and contains disturbing content that may cause the reader to delve into his or her own land of fantasy... just like Sadie.This is the first novella...

A big part of Encore's mission is to draw upon feedback from our customers and other information to identify great books that, for any number of reasons, didn't find the audience they deserved when they were first published.

Her book illustrates in fascinating detail how Soviet culture was transformed during the new regime's first two decades in power.Of all the arts, theater had a special appeal for mass audiences in Russia, and with the coming of the revolution it took on an important role in the dissemination of the new socialist culture.

For step - by - step training and coaching to help you publish your first book in 30 days or less, join us at Author Audience Academy.

For first - time authors especially, the existing social media community is rarely clamoring for you to join them and talk about your book, unless you already have an audience or readership (a developed platform) through some other meaFor first - time authors especially, the existing social media community is rarely clamoring for you to join them and talk about your book, unless you already have an audience or readership (a developed platform) through some other meafor you to join them and talk about your book, unless you already have an audience or readership (a developed platform) through some other means.

But you obviously have access to a much larger audience on Amazon, which is the first place people generally go to look for a book when they hear about it.

First, you need to know who your audience is, what keywords they search for, what books they like.

In Assignment 1 the questions were designed to get you thinking about your book idea first in general terms, and then in specifics such as what audience are you writing for, what do you want them to learn, how are they going to implement it and so on.

They dropped every month for the first 5 months of 2015 (the most recent month that data's available from the AAP); for that period in total, adult ebook sales are down 3.2 percent compared to 2014, while young adult ebook sales (think books like Hunger Games and Divergent, which have a huge adult crossover audience) are down 43.3 percent.

First - love and coming - of - age stories never really do get old, and crossover titles are making it more and more acceptable for broader age ranges of audiences to read the same book.

When I first started building an audience for my book, I wanted to find examples of individuals who were doing it well.

Underestimating the size of a book's audience is a common mistake for first - time and self - published authors who overestimate their potential.

As the United States» official ISBN Agency customer service interface, it is the first stop in publishing and selling books and now includes a growing range of tools to help expand the audiences for authors» works.