Sentences with phrase «hit a bestseller list right»

If you sign on with a publisher and expect to hit a bestseller list right away, it can happen, but chances are it won't.

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After presidential adviser Kellyanne Conway coined the phrase «alternative facts» in January, Orwell's chilling 1949 work about a totalitarian society hit No. 1 on the Amazon bestseller list; today, it's No. 2 on the Amazon classics list, right behind Orwell's «Animal Farm.»

To wrap up my year, I was on the cover of The Wall Street Journal and in The Times, The Chicago Tribune, Forbes, and a host of others at the top of the year, have sold nearly a million books now (not counting my co-authored tomes), released my co-authored novel with Clive Cussler in Sept. and hit # 2 on the NYT Bestseller List with it, sold foreign rights to Germany, Bulgaria, and the Czech Republic, have a half dozen name production companies nosing around JET and my Assassin series, have a wonderful agent who has forgotten more than I'll ever know about the biz, and have generally had a nice run of it.

But surely those authors hitting the bestseller lists, like the New York Times, have hit the big time — right?

If your book hasn't hit a bestseller list, or at least come close, any press release about it is only headed in one direction: right into the trash can.

It's hard not to when you hear about the latest seven - figure book deal or read about an indie author hitting the bestseller lists or selling their film rights.