Sentences with phrase «giving authors a platform»

Personal content gives your author platform a unique appeal and helps fans connect to you both as a writer and a person.

While current science fiction writers are enjoying the wealth of opportunities that digital publishing affords its authors, last week's opening of the New York City brick - and - mortar bookstore Singularity & Co. is doing more than giving authors a platform for their new works.

Give the author a platform that can be used for many things: blogging, posting parts of books or works - in - progress, and gathering email addresses.

We give authors a platform to independently publish and distribute their print and ebooks.

I love giving authors a platform to share about their books, inspiration and writing process.

One of the most important reasons she lists is that it gives you an author platform.

Not exact matches

Screw this mosque & quite frankly, the author, and the editors that give him a platform to spread his delusional message of anti-american hatred.

The authors wanted to find out if the knowledge a participant had about a given technology or product or service — the participant's «domain - specific» knowledge — was important when it came to the design of the idea - generating platform.

My Main aim is to uplift new authors and give them a platform to showcase their books.

The top choice for a single training session is the webinar, because this choice gives authors an opportunity to multipurpose content and use tech to connect — to all the pieces of your platform.

This quick assessment process gives you an overview of the vital points of a smoothly running writer platform machinery and general gauge of author involvement in each category as a starting point reference.

Michelle Brower: Agents can give self - published authors advice on growing their careers across all the available platforms, from print rights to foreign translation to film rights.

In addition to ghostwriting, editing and script coverage services for authors, I offer media relations consulting on topics such as how to attract and maximize PR opportunities, how to give stellar interviews, what to wear to a photo shoot, and how to use social media platforms effectively.

Finally, their solution was to axe the gifting program and cut down dramatically on the number of free codes that authors are given for releasing a book through their platform.

The best opportunities are in «hybrid» publishing, which means, doing the things that make you the most money and build your author platform (those two things are not identical, and often even at odds: as in, you may give one book away for free to reach new readers, and make money on other books you charge more on).

Kobo deleted close to a thousand titles on their platform and giving a scolding to the vanity presses and indie authors who were responsible.

An agreement announced today between ebook distributor and self - publishing platform Smashwords and OverDrive, the largest provider of digital content to public and school libraries, is going to give self - published authors one of the few remaining pieces in the publishing puzzle, namely the ability for libraries to... [Read more...]

Jane Friedman, as always, has given me one of the best definitions of platform in «A Definition of Author Platform» (Marcplatform in «A Definition of Author Platform» (MarcPlatform» (March 2012).

But using platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Goodreads gives authors an opportunity to find and over time, create long - term relationships with their followers.

But, if you set up an author platform and market your releases, you'll give yourself the best possible chance of success, and a considerable head start.

Because it can be such a challenge to find hours in the day to give writing projects the attention they deserve, any available time is often spent solely on writing, and not on a long - term approach to building an author platform.

(And by the way, I'm rooting for * any * platform or company that gives authors a fair shake, whether it's Amazon, iTunes, B&N, Kobo, small - to medium - size presses, some new distribution system being dreamed up right now in someone's back bedroom, or even any of the Big 5 publishers willing to significantly change their contract terms and treat authors more equitably.)

According to the Alliance of Independent Authors, Flipkart's decision to pull out of the e-book business means that Amazon Kindle is now the largest online reading platform in India (though Flipkart is obviously trying not to give Amazon, one of its biggest rivals, more business, as its choice of Kobo shows).

My latest Publishers Weekly column announces the launch - date for my long - planned «Shut Up and Take My Money» ebook platform, which allows traditionally published authors to serve as retailers for their publishers, selling their ebooks direct to their fans and pocketing the 30 % that Amazon would usually take, as well as the 25 % the publisher gives back to them later in royalties.

Five Ideas for Using Twitter to Sell Your Books and eBooks Author's promotions and platform building, Amanda McArthur gives us some clues on letting Twitter help.

The following tips will give you some fresh ideas on what to use on your nonfiction author platform.

And on the positive side, if you know your writing is good but perhaps not great, a strong author platform can lift you above the competition and give you a much better chance of success.

By our very nature, Draft2Digital is a wide distribution platform, meaning we do not require authors to distribute to any given vendor.

In order to be an actual GUIDE and not just a list, part of this chapter should include annotations giving pros and cons of authors» activity on each platform and who the leaders are on each.

For example, the Createspace platform gives authors the opportunity to have their completed books sold on Amazon, currently the leading online bookseller, for both print and Kindle (ebook) editions.

But while everyone else here is taking author's creative content and using it to make an income, we indie authors are supporting ourselves by not giving our rights or work away to publishers, doing everything ourselves, taking control over our own marketing platforms, and urging other authors to do the same.

Amazon give authors a powerful publishing platform (other e-reader platforms do too, though Amazon is unquestionably the leader).

Give 25 authors something to participate in and you'll have boosted your platform by 2500 % (I think that's right, I suck at math).

Creating an author blog is one of the first pieces of advice we give indie authors to grow their fan bases, nurture their platforms, and create community.

We give each and every author our award winning pdf book on «How to Create an Author Platform» as ourauthor our award winning pdf book on «How to Create an Author Platform» as ourAuthor Platform» as our gift.

Building an author platform is a continuous give - to - get effort.

An agreement announced today between ebook distributor and self - publishing platform Smashwords and OverDrive, the largest provider of digital content to public and school libraries, is going to give self - published authors one of the few remaining pieces in the publishing puzzle, namely the ability for libraries to stock their work.

«By opening up our proven digital distribution platform, we now provide these services, while giving authors and publishers full control of their content and revenue streams and a deep understanding of how readers are engaging with their content.

This publisher, Big Bang Press, is dedicated to giving fan fiction authors a platform to publish and sell their work.

I definitely like the open approach of Smashwords over this kindle locking that Amazon does, but since that Wall Street article stated Amazon is giving unusally high royalties to authors (and since they're the far more popular platform I guess buying there might snowball into additional readers for you through better chart positioning) I might be willing to overcome my distaste for their unpleasant kindleness for once.

While no publisher can give authors the royalty percentage they get from KDP and other online platforms (our overhead makes that impossible) we can definitely compromise at a fair level; Bell Bridge pays 40 percent net on ebook royalties.

Whether you create your own author website or we create one for you, we want to give you the best possible tools to build an effective online author platform and get your writing out there for the world... Continue Reading

The major platforms only have as much power as authors and publishers give them.

So, if I had to give a number of when a platform or blog is «ready» (insert one million caveats here about how every author, book, publisher, and category is different), then a great goal would be for a blogger to have 50,000 true fans.

Then I attended a Writers Digest Editors Intensive in Cincinnati where Jane Friedman gave a dynamic talk about self - publishing and author platform.

Given all the challenges of getting mass media coverage, book reviews, and book signings, self published authors should do everything to leverage whatever platform they have built and control.

If you just want to be # 1 in your category, you can get there with about 100 sales — as I mention in my more recent material, I think anybody can build a large enough author platform to sell 100 copies to actual readers in under a month, and 100 sales should be enough to get the ball rolling as long as you're also giving away about 1000 ARC copies to get book reviews first).

New sites, apps, software, social media platforms, etc., are born every day, giving authors, publishers, and readers easier ways to continue to engage and connect with each other.

Check out these posts: How To Get a Traditional Book Deal if You've Self - Published, The One Piece of Advice I Give Every Single Aspiring Author, When Is My Platform Big Enough for a Book?

Like a physical platform can be «a stage for public speaking,» a media platform gives an author a kind of pulpit from which to address — and promote books too — a ready - made potential readership.