Sentences with phrase «friends about book publishing»

When I talk to friends about book publishing and I learn that one of them is considering it, I often say something like this, «I'll help you, but I also want to spare you from pain.

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According to my good friend David Meerman Scott, as published in the book Inbound Marketing (from Hubspot founders Brian Halligan and Dharmesh Shah), «Inbound Marketing is about getting found online, through search engines and on sites like Facebook and YouTube and Twitter...»

I met many other authors who shared their stories on what they have learned about the book publishing process and made a few friends along the way.

It cost more than some other professionals with whom I've since consulted (I'm on my 2nd book now... and no, I don't plan to self - publish this one), but then I've heard other friends talk about freelance editors who charge double what iUniverse did.

The information about The Little Friend shown above was first featured in «The BookBrowse Review» - BookBrowse's online - magazine that keeps our members abreast of notable and high - profile books publishing in the coming weeks.

Donna once told me the reason her books take so long to write (her last one, The Little Friend, was published 12 years ago) is that they are about as long as three regular novels.

Following is a collection of books about writing, publishing and promoting nonfiction books, as well as some related topics, authored by past speakers and friends of the Nonfiction Authors Association.

I was talking with a publisher friend the other day about some of the scariest (and saddest) delusions many self - published authors believe about having a successful book.

I am not published by Macmillan but plenty of my friends and colleagues are and they do not deserve their books being mucked about with while Amazon asserts itself as the only game in town or Macmillan digs in over how many dollars an ebook needs to cost.

Lamenting my woes to a friend, he told me about a micro-publisher that specialized in publishing books about nurses which mine was.

Loving this article about wise book buzz from our friends at WiseInk Creative Publishing, a favorite go - to resource!

In Rowena Cala's children's title, Gia & Lincoln's Aggravating Allergies (Strategic Book Publishing), illustrated by Gabriel Vega, the author was faced with writing an amusing children's book about playful jungle animals becoming friends, but it really goes so much farther than tBook Publishing), illustrated by Gabriel Vega, the author was faced with writing an amusing children's book about playful jungle animals becoming friends, but it really goes so much farther than tbook about playful jungle animals becoming friends, but it really goes so much farther than that.

Each has published a book this year about friendship: Newbery Honor author Kirby Larson (Audacity Jones to the Rescue), Barbara O'Connor (Wish), Augusta Scattergood (Making Friends with Billy Wong) and Susan Hill Long (The Magic Mirror).

I am so grateful to each of you for supporting my work, being there when I needed an extra bit of motivation, for hanging in there until the next book was published, and for spreading the word to your friends about my stories.

I went to graduate school after publishing the book and also helped a friend to start a non-profit which took up about 8 years of my life.

I published my first book in mid-March 2016 without any fanfare, only telling family and friends about it.

When you self - publish a book, most of your sales are from your friends and families, that's approximately about 100 - 150 books.

So, I researched self - publishing, worked with a consultant who taught me the ropes about Google Adwords and Amazon and asked my friends who'd already taken that step for advice before I uploaded my first book.

In this exclusive interview for friends and members of Published & Profitable, book cover design specialists Kathi Dunn and Ron Hobart will be discussing what authors need to know about book cover design.

Your friends, family, and publisher will do everything they can to spread the word about your work, but at the end of the day, with more books than ever being published and read, authors who think their work is done after the finished manuscript is in simply won't be read as widely as an author who (respectfully) continues to do everything he or she can to get their book into the hands of readers.»

Now we're on to the third category in our examination of our Self Publishing Achievement awards, which automatically help our authors «brag» about their publishing and marketing accomplishments to all their Facebook friends (and thereby market their books to their friendsPublishing Achievement awards, which automatically help our authors «brag» about their publishing and marketing accomplishments to all their Facebook friends (and thereby market their books to their friendspublishing and marketing accomplishments to all their Facebook friends (and thereby market their books to their friends as well).

The information about Friend of the Devil shown above was first featured in «The BookBrowse Review» - BookBrowse's online - magazine that keeps our members abreast of notable and high - profile books publishing in the coming weeks.

I, too, was blessed with lots of great advice from indies who went before me — and Liliana Hart and friends wrote a great book called «The Naked Truth About Self - Publishing» that is like my career bible now.

AS: I have a friend, Ken Levine, who used to write for MASH and Cheers and now writes a blog about his experiences, who self - published a few books.

As a smart writer who likes the traditional editor my friend works with, my friend told the editor about the plan for indie publishing a finished book.

Vinjamuri interviewed and quoted me, along with a couple of friends — best - selling indie author Hugh Howey and traditionally published superstar Brad Thor — letting us opine about the radical changes shaking the book business, why they've occurred, and what the future may hold.

After getting rejected by numerous agents and publishers, I pretty much gave up my dream of becoming a published author until about three years ago when a friend mentioned I could just self - publish my books on Kindle.

Our BOOK OF THE WEEK is SISTERS OF SPIRIT, a wonderful anthology about love and friendship written by four real life friends: New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Annette Blair, Lynn Jenssen, Christine Mazurk and Jeanine Duval Spikes (also known as J.D. Spikes Lachesis Publishing author of The Possession).

About two month ago a friend and I decided to look into the self - publishing and shortly there after a couple of people asked us if we could help them publish their books.

Bonus: Last week's Your Guide to Book Publishing was all about Author Apps and Gadgets with our Nerdy Best Friend, Beth Ziesnes.

My friend Anakana Schofield's debut novel Malarky is about to be published (by the excellent independent publisher Biblioasis) and I saw on Facebook that she was going to launch the book with a reading at the Vancouver Public Library so I wanted to make sure I'm there on March 21st.

Published & Profitable friends and members are invited to a special teleseminar discussion of The Ten Awful Truths about Book Publishing — And What To Do About Them on Thursday, July 15, when I interview Stefanie Guzikoabout Book Publishing — And What To Do About Them on Thursday, July 15, when I interview Stefanie GuzikoAbout Them on Thursday, July 15, when I interview Stefanie Guzikowski.

our first book is my book actually: «let's talk about friendship, love & marriage, ordinary miracles» by retnadi nur «aini and friends (halaman moeka publishing) that book released in march 2009, we printed 3,000 copies, and now, it sold 2,000 copies.

One other friend of mine left he was in the real estate space wrote a book with with a major publishing house and then a few years later stopped he left real estate and went into a really strong personal development business and the publisher went up well you're not promoting this book anymore and they took his book word - for - word and put somebody else's name on the cover of it and just put a new introduction on it no credit to anybody he had worked because he had two co-authors help him with it because he's dyslexic so they essentially were the ones that wrote it and he provided a lot of the content and the publisher gave those other authors no credit took his name off and put somebody else's name on the front and then the publisher was 100 % within their rights to do it so you know there's a lot of things that I challenge people to kind of think about what's important and if you're putting all your expertise into this book you want to make sure that somebody's negotiated a heck out of it giving you a contract that actually makes sense for you and your business.

Belinda Kroll presents How to Rock an Author Festival with a Self - Published Book posted at Belinda Kroll, Books for Kids & Teens, saying, «Belinda shares key marketing pro-tips she learned from her teacher friend while visiting an author festival about how to stand out from the crowd.»

Self - promotion includes the obvious stuff like trying to get people here to buy any product you offer (book or otherwise), and also includes posts designed to drive traffic to your website / blog, posts to «let us know about your friend's new book,» and posts advertising for your own publishing services or companies.

According to my friend and fellow self - published author, Helen Hanson, who originally told me about BF, «I've hosted my free book on my website, but I had to hand - hold several people a week who couldn't get the book on their ereader device.»

I'd also like to add something about the people, many of them friends of mine, who work in traditional book publishing — the editors, publicists, sales reps.. Most are hard - working, underpaid former English majors who love books.

The average print self - published book sells about 100 - 150 copies — or two - thirds to three - quarters of your friends and family combined (and don't count on all your Facebook acquaintances buying).

About 9 years ago a friend of mine and I decided to publish a childrens book.

David interviewed and quoted me, along with a couple of friends — best - selling indie author Hugh Howey and traditionally published superstar Brad Thor — allowing us to opine about the radical changes shaking the book business, why they occurred, and what the future may hold.

I know your friends and family see books and courses that promise «Kindle ebook riches» and newspaper stories about «overnight self - publishing millionaires» and those high - pressure ads from vanity publishers all the time.

The two books (about computing stuff, so hardly mass market) that I wrote were long before electronic publishing; but a friend who has a book out tells me that he does get more royalties on the eBook edition, by about 5 % — but the cost of the eBook, compared to the paperback, does suggest that the publishers are getting rather more out of that edition than he is.

When I told one colleague about my book he connected me with one of his best friends — who happens to be the executive editor of a major review publication and a published author.

Just a few weeks ago I knew next to nothing about social networking let alone book promoting, but in no time at all I have not only found my feet in the publishing world, but made lots of new friends on the way.

If it sounds terrifying and overinvolved, don't worry about it — I have lots of friends who sell WAY more books than me and all they did was publish.

Several recent cases brought by celebrities have effectively created a new privacy law in the U.K. And recently, the House of Lords upheld a landmark ruling barring the friend of a well - known folk singer from publishing certain passages of a tell - all book about the celebrity.»

Clarissa is also the author of the successful «Happy Family Lawyer» blog, providing weekly commentary and tips on issues relating to divorce and is about to publish her book «Splitsville - How to separate, stay out of Court and stay friends».