Sentences with phrase «get my books in the hands of readers as»

But I knew I wanted to get my books in the hands of readers as fast as possible.

Not exact matches

In total, they printed more than 4,000 advanced copies of the debut novel, as they knew that getting the book into a lot of readers» hands was a key way to help make it a breakout hit.

That in turn has been helping some good authors, some published by large houses as well, get works into the hands of readers who might never have had access to those books because they would not sell in high enough volumes via traditional print ways.

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.»

In addition, any profits from sales of the book will be yours (not just a royalty percentage as with either a traditional publisher or a vanity press), and in some cases it may be the only way of getting your book into the hands of readerIn addition, any profits from sales of the book will be yours (not just a royalty percentage as with either a traditional publisher or a vanity press), and in some cases it may be the only way of getting your book into the hands of readerin some cases it may be the only way of getting your book into the hands of readers.

What matters is getting the book they have written into the hands of as many readers as possible in whatever form, print, digital, audio.

«I just don't get the same satisfaction out of reading as I do when I have a real book in my hands,» says reader Lisa Hahn.

And then I remembered, I had an agent, a great agent, I wrote great books (so all the rejecting editors told me) and yes, you are right, self pub has given my stories a voice and an ear and the chance to be read, when they otherwise would have still been gathering dust on my hard drive, yet, on the other hand this is hard, REALLY HARD, it is SO hard to find your way to a readership as a SP, with limited funds (dwindling)... and the glimmer of trad pub — with their power to splash your name around established circles of readers, and their ability to secure a great number of reviews where, as a self pub, doors have been slammed in my face — becomes temptingly shiny again, (it's like childbirth, you forget all the painful stuff with time)... and it all gets very tempting... almost tempting enough to consider sacrificing one work JUST one artistic premise for the trade off of visibility... and then perhaps, just perhaps THEN, my SP efforts will finally sprout wings... but then I hear you and other say, it wasn't worth it, you'd never do it again, and I sigh... And then I wake up the next morning and think of packing it all in, and going to work for Walmart and steady shitty pay... lol And then along comes this blog post.

Anne Womack crystalized this sentiment: «We would love for the Big 5 publishers to recognize libraries as partners, as a means to get their books into the hands of hundreds of readers who may very well purchase more of the same book / author in the future.»

Typically, authors have viewed self - publishing as a second - class path to getting their book in the hands of readers.