Moving
from Wannabe Author to the Real Thing It never fails... at every conference I speak at, multiple attendees will say, «I can't believe you've written all these books... I wish I could write a book.»
Moving
from Wannabe Author to the Real Thing It never fails... at every conference I speaksat, multiple attendees will say, «I can't believe you've written all these books... I wish I could write a book.»
Moving
from wannabe author to the real thing is totally possible this coming year.
Not exact matches
Reactions have ranged
from outrage and disgust that once again self - published
authors were being treated as amateurs,
wannabes, and «aspiring
authors,» to anger at indie
authors for trying to liken their plight to the civil rights movement with Howey's choice of title and comments along the lines of, «It's like shades of Jim Crow when blacks had to sit in the back of the bus...» [1.
From the comments I see posted on various blogs and websites, I have to conclude that the vast majority of
wannabe bestselling
authors are severely delusional.
Steve is also an aspiring «PhD
wannabe» (his words, not mine) whose knowledge of literature runs
from an entrenched understanding of the classics to those works of literary fiction developed by independent
authors in more recent times.
This would eliminate all those Fake
Authors who are getting pittances for advances
from Big Publishers and who sell only a few hundred copies, or those
Wannabe Authors who aren't getting any advances at all
from their small - press publishers.
• Why struggling
authors spend countless hours and hundreds of dollars publishing their dream book, only to find it gets lost among all the other self - published «
wannabe» books... and how you can make sure your book stands out
from the competition.
I had heard of too many
wannabe published
authors who had been waiting for years for either a book deal
from a trad publisher, or even an agent to pitch for them.