Indie bookstores are
great places for authors to launch their books and they also play an important role in authors» marketing campaigns.
«AMC is
a great place for Authors to get tools to promote and market their books» Aant Umansky, author of children's books
Ironically, bookstores are not
a great place for authors to sell books.
Not exact matches
Take,
for example, the uncompromising debate that took
place between the young Leo Strauss and Julius Guttmann, a student of the
great neo «Kantian philosopher Hermann Cohen and
author of the formidable Philosophy of Judaism (1933).
Of course, the
author implied that the underworld of Sheol continued to remain the permanent resting -
place for all others (whether good or bad, and presumably all Gentiles) who were not to be raised
for participation in the
great judgment.
This blog is a compilation of various
authors who are both mothers and writers, so it's a
great spot to stop if you're looking
for different viewpoints in one
place.
The findings suggest that the diversity of bacteria in extreme environments is even
greater than previously thought, and the
authors suggest that salt deposits on other planets might be a good
place to search
for extraterrestrial life.
These Book Projects with Grading Rubrics include: - Introduction - student reading record - new book jacket - pyramid diorama - act it out - letter to the
author - dress - up character - salesperson - book critic - letter to friend - radio or television broadcast - comic strip - sing a song - character puppet - mobile - new words - Venn diagram - poster board - map with key
places - make a web - create a new page - story sequence - advertise - story flip book - character map - book award - new ending - story chart - story map - postcard - story flag - letter to the
author questions - character feeling - real or make - believe - character Venn diagram - fact finder - cause and effect - fact and opinions - event timeline - story quilt - book news - grading rubric These are
GREAT for reading workshops.
-- Daniel H. Pink,
author of To Sell is Human and Drive «Digital Leadership is a
great one - stop shopping
place to learn about all the key ingredients you will need
for success in the digital age.
Just
for Authors: AuthorAdNetwork.com — For authors: A great place to advertise your books on 8 to 12 sites (depending on genre) for one low pri
for Authors: AuthorAdNetwork.com — For authors: A great place to advertise your books on 8 to 12 sites (depending on genre) for one low
Authors: AuthorAdNetwork.com —
For authors: A great place to advertise your books on 8 to 12 sites (depending on genre) for one low pri
For authors: A great place to advertise your books on 8 to 12 sites (depending on genre) for one low
authors: A
great place to advertise your books on 8 to 12 sites (depending on genre)
for one low pri
for one low price.
There is a
place for you to upload a url which is
great place to promote your
author website.
Luckily, in this guest post,
author Jodie Toohey provides some
great places to get reviews, as well as some other tips
for getting reviews
for your books.
Goodreads (http://www.goodreads.com) is not only a
great place to connect with readers, but it also offers several promotional options
for authors.
A new
author has no right to automatically put himself or herself in the same category as Stephen Hawking or Steven King, or T. S. Eliot or T. S. Joyce
for that matter,
for that would be flagrant solipsistic self - gratification that has no
place among the shelves of the «
authors» who are truly
great.
Amazon is a
great place to sell books, but most
authors don't realize that Amazon has an internal sales machine that will actually help you market your book,
for free, if you trigger it?
Pinterest has an entire category
for Film, Music and Books, which makes it a
great place for readers to find their next book and
for authors to market their book.
Amazon / Goodreads news is
great for authors, who can now find all their nasty anonymous reviews in one convenient
place.
At the same time, as technology makes self - publishing ever easier, the industry will hear new voices from around the globe and from
places that have been underrepresented in the past, giving readers a
greater variety of indie titles than ever before, but making it more vital
for authors to find a way to stand out from the pack.
A classy
author bio: Your
author bio is a
great place to brag about your reputation
for quality.
One
great thing about this compared to some
places is that there are a lot more readers here supporting
authors than at other
places (
for example, on WriteOn it's all
for workshopping, so basically everyone there is an
author).
Given that all of the creative / design / editing elements are right and in
place, the
greatest hurdle
for authors is marketing.
Creating a good Amazon page is a
great starting
place for a new
author, but having your own website, where readers can interact with you and your brand, is absolutely necessary.
, but
for authors who
place a
great deal of importance on seeing their book stocked in physical retail stores, then the bigger your publisher, the more muscle they probably have to get that nationwide store distribution, and possibly pay
for displays or other merchandising during your book's launch.
Lulu.com's bookstore is a
great place for independent
authors and small publishers, where thousands of books are sold each day.
Now, instead of waiting
for authors to come to a local brick - and - mortar book store, e-book signings are taking
place online, allowing readers to have
greater access to their favorite
authors and giving
authors the ability to market themselves like never before.
If you're looking
for a
place to discover a
great book, a
place to discuss your favorite books, or a
place to get in touch with your favorite
author, Goodreads is the
place to be.
By the way, in my Stockett research
for this post, I learned on the PenguinUK website that the
author is at work on a second novel: «It also takes
place in Mississippi, during the 1930's and the
Great Depression.
I would bet that the reason so many romance
authors and readers find each other here at Smashwords is that they have found a
place where they are not treated as second - class citizens, and
authors can make a little money, sometimes a lot of money, and readers can find a
great romance novel without paying an arm and leg
for it.
The
author draws characters that the reader cares
for and also establishes a
great sense of
place.
Even as indie
authors and the entire self - publishing concept gain more and more acceptance among readers and the industry, one of the last
great hurdles
for these
authors is
placing their content in physical bookstores.
Penny also stresses the importance of good editing and suggests that this is the one
place that
authors should pay
for and get professional help since editing can make the difference between a
great book and a missed opportunity.
I've had
great luck in
placing bylined articles and op - eds
for authors, but it's far easier
for me to get mileage out of a bylined article.
Most of my writing these days takes
place in Scrivener, a
great authoring platform
for spitting out books and shorter works in the appropriate publishing format.
Doing library appearances could be
great place for her as a children's book
author.
This site can be a
great place to promote your book, but it also has an ugly side where readers one - star EVERYTHING an
author writes (even without reading it)
for silly reasons: they don't like the
author's personality, they think the content is objectionable even though they've not read the book, or they are kamikazi - ing an
author who is writing in the same genre as one of their favorite
authors.
As one member (and TWL reader) Suzanne Brazil says of the group, «They have an active Twitter presence, publish helpful essays, support each other's blogs and
author pages and are generally just a
great place for technical questions, writing advice, and encouragement!
They have an active Twitter presence, publish helpful essays, support each other's blogs and
author pages and are generally just a
great place for technical questions, writing advice, and encouragement!
I think it's a
great place for readers to connect with
authors over the common love of books.
Back on May 21, I mentioned that Bowker was recommending the vanity press
Author Solutions as a
great place for self - publishers to find needed services.
We created the Kobo Writing Life blog at www.kobowritinglife.com in order to outline spotlights on
authors, highlighting various things that they are doing, as well as to share information and insights about KWL, as well as the craft and business of writing (See Darcy's post about starting your novel on Kobo Writing Life blog here), so that's a
great place to keep your eye out
for updated tidbits and info.
Finally, Blurb has emerged as the
place for full - color ebook and print book
authors with their
great tools
for creating Fixed Format EPUBs along with print versions of your book.
Facebook also offers you the chance to join various writing groups
for each genre, so it's a
great place to meet other like - minded genre
authors.
Though I like the idea behind
Author Earnings, and I think it'd be great to have a centralized place for indie author data, I still like to also do my own res
Author Earnings, and I think it'd be
great to have a centralized
place for indie
author data, I still like to also do my own res
author data, I still like to also do my own research.
Facebook is a
great place for readers and
authors to interact, but it is not the source of book sales — at least not substantially.
``...
for an
author looking
for promotion from book bloggers it's
great to have all this information consolidated in one
place.»
Meanwhile, if you're looking
for solid offerings by indie
authors, it's a
great place to browse.
Author Kathleen Peddicord is the founder of the Live and Invest Overseas Publishing Group. She puts Belize as the number two
place to retire in the Americas and notes it is a
great place for «reiventing your life in retirement».
Friedmann recommends it be read together with a companion piece by Johnson and David Post, «The
Great Debate - Law in the Virtual World,» in which the
authors ask, «Should cyberspace (or subsets of cyberspace) be treated as distinct «
places»
for purposes of legal analysis?»